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News From Babel - Sirens And Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home Mp3

News Babel Rer Megacorp Avantgarde 2006

Performer: News From Babel
Album: Sirens And Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home
Label: ReR Megacorp
Catalog #: ReR NfBOX, ReR NFB1, ReR NFB2, ReR NFB3
MP3: 2417 mb | FLAC: 1985 mb
Released: 2006
Country: UK
Style: Avantgarde
Rating: 4.8/5
Votes: 636
Category: Electronic / Jazz / Rock

News From Babel - Sirens And Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home Mp3

Tracklist

1	Dark Matter Guitar [Ebo] – Zeena Parkins	4:20
2	Work Resumed On The Tower
3	Devils	1:16
4	Victory Trumpet – Phil Minton	5:19
5	Moss	3:58
6	Sirens And Silences
7	Contraries
8	Auschwitz/Babel	4:07
9	Banknote	3:19
10	Klein's Bottle	3:17
11	Odysseus	2:56
12	Who Will Accuse?	2:38
13	Dry Leaf	2:51
14	Black Gold Bass – Georgie Born	3:09
15	Waited	5:09
16	A Dragon At The Core	4:39
17	Arcades (Of Glass)	7:44
18	Fast Food	3:13
19	Letters Home
20	Late Evening	4:58
21	Untitled	0:20
22	Heart Of Stone (Megalopolis)	3:04
23	Anno Mirabilis Trumpet – Phil Minton	4:08
24	Extra Illustrated CD

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ReR NfB, RēRNfBCD	News From Babel	Sirens & Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home ‎(CD, Album, Comp, RM)	ReR Megacorp, ReR Megacorp	ReR NfB, RēRNfBCD	UK	1995
RēR NfBCD 1, RēR NfB1, ReR NfB	News From Babel	Sirens And Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home ‎(CD, Comp, RM)	ReR Megacorp, ReR Megacorp, ReR Megacorp	RēR NfBCD 1, RēR NfB1, ReR NfB	UK	Unknown
ReR NfB 1, ReR NfBCD 1	News From Babel	Sirens And Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home ‎(CD, Album, Comp)	ReR Megacorp, ReR Megacorp	ReR NfB 1, ReR NfBCD 1	UK	Unknown
HCWFCD 140802	News From Babel	Sirens & Silences / Work Resumed On The Tower / Letters Home ‎(CDr, Album, Comp, Unofficial)	Henry Cow Family	HCWFCD 140802	Russia	2001

Credits

Bass, Guitar – Bill Gilonis
Bassoon, Saxophone [Alto, Sopranino], Piano, Keyboards, Composed By – Lindsay Cooper
Drums, Electronics, Percussion, Lyrics By – Chris Cutler
Harp, Harp [Electric, Prepared], Accordion – Zeena Parkins
Vocals – Dagmar Krause (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 1-8 to 1-10, 2-8 (uncredited), 2-9, 3-1), Phil Minton (tracks: 1-10, 2-5), Robert Wyatt (tracks: 2-1, 2-2, 2-4, 2-7, 2-9), Sally Potter (tracks: 2-3, 2-6)

Notes

Tracks 1-1 to 1-10 recorded and mixed 10th to 19th October and 2nd & 3rd November 1983 at Cold Storage
Tracks 2-1 to 2-9 recorded autumn & winter 1985/86 at Cold Storage

Back insert wrongly lists 1-10 as Dry Leaf; Track 1-7 is silent.
Tracklist for Letters Home taken from CD booklet; back insert has tracks in a completely different (wrong) order.

Extra illustrated CD with CONTRARIES, the unreleased single sent free to subscribers to the first edition.

3 CD reissue in card slipcase. Remastered from the original tapes.

Catalogue number ReR NfBOX on slipcase; others on individual CDs.