RUSSELL MILLS/UNDARK

PEARL+UMBRA

  1/  canyon : split asunder                     (Mills)                       6.06
  2/  swallow crystals                           (Mills)                       5.07
  3/  rooms of the sixteen shimmers              (Mills,Smyth,Sylvian)         4.29
  4/  all wise fly (pneuma)                      (Mills)                       3.49
  5/  shed lustre                                (Mills,Smyth,Guthrie)         6.28
  6/  a swoon in amber                           (Mills)                       5.48
  7/  causes cause causes                        (Mills)                       5.53
  8/  heaven dips                                (Mills)                       5.24
  9/  cage of air                                (Mills)                       3.36
  10/ golden hair                                (Mills)                       5.44
  11/ all wise fly (grapes and bones)            (Mills)                       4.11
  12/ gleam and drag                             (Mills)                       4.44

          Recorded at September Sound Studios, London and the Shed Studio, Ambleside            
          David Sylvan's vocals recorded at Prarie Sun Studios, California; engineered 
            by David Kent
          Sculpted and produced by Russell Mills with Tom Smyth
          Sonic Mandarin : Robin Guthrie
          Engineered by Tom Smyth
          Additional engineering by Mitsuo Tate, Mike Fearon and Michael Webster
          Mixed by Tom Smyth, Russell Mills, Robin Guthrie and Mike Fearon
          Studio Assistants : Mitsuo Tate and Jody Roberts
Russell Mills : catalytic conversions, uncertain wires, temple bells, knife guitar, blood, cloud bowles, steel and skin beats, music boxes, slate blasting, organic flotsam, industrial jetsam, nervous words, samples, the 'shed' method; Ildefonso Aguilar : lava guitar (8); Samuel Aguilar : murmer moog (8); John Aitkin : cruising drums (2); Eraldo Bernocchi : mirage guitars, fulcrum beats; Michael Brook : infinate guitar; Harold Budd : desert keyboards (3); Mark Clifford : splinters; Declan Colgan : synthesizer (8); Huw Costin : curve bass (7); Sussan Deyhim : wind vocals (8); Brian Eno : touchstone sonics; Roger Eno : chameleon drifts; Mike Fearon : stealth guitars; Ali Foster : lucent vocals (5); Peter Gabriel : muted howls (7); Robin Guthrie : honey guitars; Graham Haynes : ribbon cornet (4,11); Derek Hook : tonge drums (4,11); Bill Laswell : bear basses; Graham Lewis : bunker emissions; Hamish Mackintosh : mirror vocals (3); Ian McCullough : liquid acoustic guitar; Tony McSweeney : canine breaths; Ann Mills : cloud bowls (3,6), music boxes (3,6); Sam Mills : pearl river harmonium (3,6), music boxes (3,6); Thurston Moore : root guitar (7); Paul Schutze : vibrating ether; Tom Smyth : nifty digits, reliable surprise; David Sylvian : shimmer vocals (3); Clodagh Simonds : golden vocals (10), pearl river harmonium (10); Mitsuo Tate : exocet guitar (9); Jonny Tomlinson : shining keyboards (12); Emma Townshend : quicksilver vocals (1); Ian Walton : thomas californian (plank) organ (9); Hector Zazou : radium samples.

          1999  -  Bella Union Ltd. (UK),  BELLACD13  (CD)

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