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Credits

Bella Union
UK: September 1999
US: 1 January 2000
catalogue: BELLACD13

Sonic Mandarin: Robin Guthrie.
Sculpted and produced by Russell Mills with Tom Smyth.
Engineered by Tom Smyth.
Additional engineering: Mitsuo Tate, Mike Fearon, Michael Webster.
Mixed by Tom Smythe, Russell Mills, Robin Guthrie, and Mike Fearon.
Studio Assistants: Mitsuo Tate, Jody Roberts.
Recorded at September Sound Studios, London, The Shed Studio, Ambleside.
Editing at Square Centre studio, Nottingham.
David Sylvian's vocals on "Rooms of the Sixteen Shimmers" engineered by David Kent.
Recorded at Prairie Sun studios, California.
Mastered by Walter Coelho at Masterpiece, London.

Russell Mills: catalytic conversions, uncertain wires, temple bells, knife guitar, blood, cloud bowls, steel and skin beats, music boxes, slate blasting, organic flotsam, industrial jetsem, nervous words, samples, the 'shed' method
Eraldo Bernocchi: mirage guitars, fulchrum beats
Michael Brook: infinite guitar
Mark Clifford: splinters
Brian Eno: touchstone sonics
Roger Eno: chameleon drifts
Mike Fearon: stealth guitars
Robin Guthrie: honey guitars
Bill Laswell: bear basses
Graham Lewis: bunker emissions
Ian McCullough: liquid acoustic guitar
Tony McSweeny: canine breaths
Paul Schutze: vibrating ether
Tom Shyth: nifty digits, reliable surprise
Hector Zazou: radium samples

Tracks

1. Canyon: Split Asunder (Mills) 6'05
• musicians as above, including:
• Emma Townshend: quicksilver vocals
2. Swallow Crystals (Mills) 5'07
• musicians as above, including:
• John Aitken: cruising drums
3. Rooms of the Sixteen Shimmers (Mills, Smyth, Sylvian) 4'28
• musicians as above, including:
• Harold Budd: desert keyboards
• Hamish Mackintosh: mirror vocals
• Ann Mills: cloud bowls, music boxes
• Sam Mills: pearl river harmonium, music boxes
• David Sylvian: shimmer vocals
4. All Wide Fly (pneuma) (Mills) 3'49
• musicians as above, including:
• Graham Hayes: ribbon cornet
• Derek Hook: tonge drums
5. Shed Lustre (Mills, Smyth, Guthrie) 6'27
• musicians as above, including:
• Ali Foster: lucent vocals
6. A Swoon in Amber (Mills) 5'48
• musicians as above, including:
• Ann Mills: cloud bowls, music boxes
• Sam Mills: pearl river harmonium, music boxes
7. Causes Cause Causes (Mills) 5'53
• musicians as above, including:
• Huw Costin: curve bass
• Peter Gabriel: muted howls
• Thurston Moore: root guitar
8. Heaven Dips (Mills) 5'23
• musicians as above, including:
• Ildefonso Aguilar: lava guitar
• Samuel Aguilar: murmur moog
• Declan Colgan: synthesizer
• Sussan Deyhim: wind vocals
9. Cage of Air (Mills) 3'36
• musicians as above, including:
• Mitsuo Tata: exocet guitar
• Ian Walton: thomas californian (plank) organ
10. Golden Hair (Mills) 5'43
• musicians as above, including:
• Clodagh Simonds: golden vocals, pearl river harmonium
11. All Wise Fly (Grapes and Bones) (Mills) 4'10
• musicians as above, including:
• Graham Hayes: ribbon cornet
• Derek Hook: tonge drums
12. Gleam and Drag (Mills) 4'44
• musicians as above, including:
• Jonny Thomlinson: shining keyboards

running time: 61'18

Notes

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