1994,
United Kingdom
00:53:18;
122M;
320S;
1068;
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A Hollow Miracle - 4:23
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String Quartet 1 - 11:15
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From Descartes' Dreams - 6:37
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Hold To The Zero Burn, Imagine - 16:49
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Palimpsest - 4:19
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Numinous Pools For Mental Orchestra - 9:55
- Tim Hodgkinson / piano, viola, bass, sampler, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, keyboards, percussion
- Robert Woollard / cello (2)
- Helen Kamminga / viola (2)
- Charles Mutter / violin (2)
- Chris Brierley / violin (2)
- Guy Segers / bass (4,5)
- Lindsay Cooper / bassoon (4)
- Richard Bolton / cello (4)
- Chris Cutler / drums (4)
- Clarissa Melville / flute (4)
- Nancy Ruffer / flute (4,5)
- Bill Gilonis / guitar (4)
- John Impett / trumpet (4)
- Dominic Weeks / xylophone (4)
- Raul Diaz / French horn (5)
- Rick Wilson / percussion (5)
- John Impett / Trumpet
Tracks 1 & 5 are settings of texts by Chris Cutler.
Track 2 is one of four pieces for strings written in Grenoble in Spring 1993, the others of which are as yet unperformed.
Track 3 derives from a larger, abandoned, project Three Dreams Of Descartes, an oratorio in which the philosopher pits his rational self against various personal demons that come wrapped in differnt kinds of Time.
Track 4 was written for the Henry Cow group, performed at concerts in 1976-77, but never recorded until now.
Track 6 was written for real orchestra and later tapped into a computer & revised for midi instrumentation.
WOOF 016, Megaphone 014
