tracks 2-1 to 2-6 alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, synthesizer, organ [farfisa], melodica [melodika] Alfred Harth tracks 1-1 to 1-30 assemblage, mastered by [premastered] Udi Koomran tracks 1-28 to 1-30, 2-1 to 2-6 bass clarinet Alfred Harth tracks 1-10, 1-18, 2-7 bass guitar Lindsay Cooper bassoon, piano, oboe, sopranino saxophone, alto saxophone Lindsay Cooper tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 2-7 cello Georgie Born tracks 2-1 to 2-11 compiled by Chris Cutler tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 1-14 to 1-18, 2-8, 2-10, 2-11 drums Chris Cutler tracks 2-8, 2-11 engineer Bill Gilonis tracks 1-9 to 1-26 engineer Charles Gray tracks 2-8 engineer Tim Hodgkinson tracks 2-10 engineer [concert mix] Maggie Thomas tracks 1-28 to 1-30 engineer, recorded by Walter Brüssow tracks 1-1 to 1-8 flute, saxophone Irita Kutchmy graphic design Tim Schwartz tracks 1-1 to 1-8 guitar Fred Frith tracks 2-8, 2-11 guitar, bass Bill Gilonis tracks 1-14 to 1-18 guitar, bass Georgie Born liner notes Chris Cutler liner notes David Thomas liner notes Kate Westbrook liner notes Sally Potter liner notes Tim Hodgkinson tracks 2-1 to 2-6 mastered by Alfred Harth photography by Alessandro Achilli photography by Brian Cooke photography by Larry Looney photography by Lucio Briganti tracks 1-14 to 1-17 piccolo flute Irita Kutchmy remastered by Bob Drake tracks 1-19 to 1-26 saw [singing saw] Celia Gore Booth tracks 1-28 to 1-30 synthesizer, piano Elvira Plenar tracks 1-10, 1-11, 1-19 to 1-26 tenor horn Kate Westbrook tracks 2-11 trombone Conrad Bauer tracks 2-7 trumpet Phil Minton tracks 1-1 to 1-8 violin Vicky Aspinall tracks 1-28 to 1-30 violin, trombone Annemarie Roelofs tracks 1-12, 1-13 vocals Dagmar Krause tracks 1-9 to 1-11 vocals Kate Westbrook tracks 2-10 voice David Thomas tracks 1-8 voice Georgie Born tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 1-19 to 1-26 voice Maggie Nicols tracks 2-1 to 2-7 voice Phil Minton tracks 2-8 voice Robert Wyatt tracks 2-11 voice Sally Potter tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 1-10 to 1-15, 1-17 to 1-30, 2-7, 2-9 written-by Lindsay Cooper Phonographic Copyright (p) ReR Megacorp Distributed By ReR Megacorp Distributed By Morphius Records Distributed By Locus Solus Designed At OnionProductions.com Recorded At Wave Studios Recorded At AngelicA Festival Recorded At Trion Sound Studio Recorded At Festival Musica Recorded At Kaleidophon Studios Recorded At Cold Storage Recorded At Roulette, New York, NY Mastered At Laubhuette Studio Mastered At Ginger Studio Mastered At Studio Midi-Pyrénées Manufactured By www.morphius.com Manufactured By The ADS Group Manufactured By The ADS Group I. OUTTAKES FOR OTHER OCCASIONS : recorded in London between 1979-84. Originally released as a limited edition cassette to subscribers to Music For Other Occasions (nml 8603) in 1986.
II. THE SMALL SCREEN, MUSIC FOR TELEVISION : Recorded at Wave Studios. Green Flutes in March 1983, Four Corners in March and August 1984, Domestic Bliss in June 1984 and With Our Children in September 1984. Originally released as a limited edition subscription cassette in 1984 as Sync Pulse 625.
III. LINDSAY COOPER and ORCHESTRA : Recorded at the Angelica Festival, Bologna, in 1992. Originally released on Angelica '92 compilation by Pierrot Lunaire.
IV. A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO NOMANSLAND : Recorded an engineered at Trio Studio, Frankfurt/Main in March 1987. Originally released on the No Mans Land compilation sampler A Beginners Guide To Nomansland, 1988.
TRIO TRABANT : Recorded at Festival Music in the Ancienne Laiterie, Strasbourg, on October 4, 1991. Mastered by Alfred 23 Harth at Laubhuette Studio Moonsun, Korea. Previously unreleased.
Track 2-7 : Recorded at Kaleidophon in April 1979 fr the film 'Song Of The Shirt'. Originally released as a limited edition not-for-sale subscription item with the LP Rags (Re Records, Re 1984) on a hand-silkscreened one-sided 7 vinyl disc.
Track 2-8 : Recorded and engineered at Cold Storage, Brixton, between October 29 and 31, 1984. Originally released on the LP The Last Nightingale (Re 1984) released in 1984 to raise money for the British miners in the middle of their historic strike against the politically motivated pit closures that formed part of the Thatcher government's general offensive against organised labour.
Track 2-9 : Recorded live at Roulette, New York, on 13 November 1985, probably by Lindsay (sourced from a hand-labeled cassette in Lindsay's collection). Previously unreleased.
Track 2-10 : concert recorded at Hirschwirt restaurant in Erding, Germany on December 11, 1982. Originally released on the LP Winter Comes Home, Re Records (Re dtlp) 1983.
Track 2-11 : Recorded at Cold Storage, Brixton by Bill Gilonis in April 1984. Originally released on Volume 1 No. 1 of the Re Records Quarterly Magazine on May 1st 1985. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Comes in a standard 2xCD jewel case. Includes a 20-page booklet with notes, credits and pictures. Barcode on the inner tray. Track timings for disc 2 (not disc 1) are in the booklet. Timing for track 2-8 and 2-10 are wrong (respectively 6:56 and 11:00 in the booklet), they have been corrected above. Barcode: 752725034029 (Scanned) Label Code: LC-02677 Matrix / Runout: WWW.MORPHIUS.COM MORPH-17034 3080-CD-0932 01 (Disc 1) Mastering SID Code: IFPI LL29 (Disc 1) Matrix / Runout: WWW.MORPHIUS.COM MORPH-17034 3080-CD-0933 01 (Disc 2) Mastering SID Code: IFPI LL30 (Disc 2)