bass, piano, voice John Greaves bassoon, oboe, recorder, voice Lindsay Cooper design, layout Gregg Skerman drums, liner notes [booklet notes] Chris Cutler tracks 5 to 8 engineer [mixing] Henry Cow tracks 1 to 4 engineer [mixing] Phil Becque engineer [recording] Andy Morris engineer [recording] Phil Becque guitar [stereo], violin, xylophone, piano Fred Frith organ, alto saxophone [alto sax], clarinet, piano Tim Hodgkinson painting [front and back cover booklet], photography by [page 2 background photo] Ray Smith photography by [ray's paintings photographed by] Anne Lamberty producer Henry Cow remastered by Matt Murman vocals [certain], engineer [assistant] Charles Fletcher Phonographic Copyright (p) ReR Megacorp Copyright (c) Virgin Publishing Recorded At The Manor Remastered At SAE Mastering Made By DCA (8) Recorded at the Manor Feb./Mar. 1974.
All the sounds were made with the instruments listed above; however, in parts of Ruins and Linguaphonie, the bassoon, alto, voice and drums were recorded at half or double speed. Bittern Storm acknowledges its debt to O. Rasputin's 'Got To Hurry' by the Yardbirds. For many things other than the record we would like to thank Charles Fletcher, Jack Balchin, D.J. Perry, Ray Smith, Lol Coxhill, Henk Weltevreden and Geoff Leigh.