Panarama is a project of UK native Ian Bairnson (Pilot, Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, Parzivals Eye), and his German friend Hermann Weindorf (solo, Passport, Zara-Thustra, Oktagon) both of whom wrote and sing most of the tracks.. It also includes Curt Cress (solo, Snowball, Passport, Orange Peel, Triumvirat, Saga, Lucifer's Friend).
The two met in the mid 1980's while both were working on Eberhard Schoener's release, Time Square.