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Sixteen Haiku And Other Stories

International Project

(Hitch Hyke/Tongue Master Records)

CD front cover

track listing and invited artists

#	title	featuring vocalist
1	[Intro] on stage, 2	Robert Wyatt
2	Haiku one	Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)
3	Haiku two	Martine Roberts (Broken Dog)
4	Haiku three in the museum garden	Mark Mulcahy
5	Haiku four	Alejandro Escovedo
6	Haiku five	Carla Torgerson (The Walkabouts)
7	Haiku six	Carla Torgerson & Akis Boyatzis
8	Haiku seven	Akis Boyatzis
9	Haiku eight	Edith Frost
10	Haiku nine young fate	Mark Eitzel
11	Haiku ten	Cat Power
12	Haiku eleven	Simon Joyner
13	Haiku twelve unprofitable boat line	Lee Ranaldo
14	Haiku thirteen sick fury	Alex Gordon (Lincoln)
15	Haiku fourteen A	Akis Boyatzis (in greek)
16	Haiku fourteen B	John Grant (The Czars)
17	Haiku fifteen	James William Hindle
18	Haiku sixteen	Lee Ranaldo
19	Dead Sea (Logbook II)	James Sclavunos (The Bad Seeds, The Vanity Set)
20	Water Warm (sketches for a summer)	Pinkie Maclure
21	This Human Body	Howe Gelb (Giant Sand)
22	The Jasmine	Steve Wynn

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The music in this album is performed by the following:
Kriton Beyer	Uku stick (track 10), mandolin (track 2), acoustic guitar (track 12)
Stathis Ioannou	Electric guitar (tracks 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 19, 21, 22)
Yorgos Kitsios	Violin (track 1), viola (track 6)
Antonis Livieratos	Bleeps (tracks 10, 17, 22), distortion, electric guitar (tracks 7, 9) and Rhodes piano (track 1).
Jack Manis	Electric guitar (tracks 2, 5, 16)
Theodore Pistiolas	Glockenspiel (track 6), bowed glockenspiel (track 14), cello (track 21), celtic harp (track 21)
Yannis Tryferoulis	Drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21)
Akis Boyatzis	Synthetics, programming, bass, acoustic guitar, treatments, piano, Rhodes piano (track 17)

Also appearing:
Solis Barkis	Percussion & loops (tracks 2, 8, 9, 19)

Howe Gelb	Electric guitar and piano bits (track 21)

Coti K.	Rhythm ’n’ scratch (track 5), sound treatments (tracks 12, 20, 22)

Marios Sarakinos	drum loops (tracks 1, 3, 21)

Vangelis Zisis	Additional samples & programming (tracks 7)

Produced by Akis Boyatzis and Antonis Livieratos (a hobART phASe team).

Lyrics translated from the Greek by Akis Boyatzis, assisted by Carla Torgerson and James Sclavunos. Translation was based on the book: “George Seferis, collected poems” by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, revised edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1995. The original Greek version of these poems appears in the book: “George Seferis, Poems”, sixteenth edition, Icarus, Athens 1989.

Most of the material (including Carla Torgerson’s vocals) was recorded at Sigmastudio, Athens, Greece by Akis Boyatzis. Additional recordings (including Steve Wynn’s vocal) at Warehouse Studio by Vangelis Zisis and at hobART phASe STUDIO by Antonis Livieratos. Lee Ranaldo recorded by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon (NYC)

Mixed at Warehouse Studio, Athens, Greece by Vangelis Zisis. Track 19 mixed by Chris Hatjistamou).

Mastered by Chris Hatzistamou, Athens Mastering.

CD-ROM section by Blue Frog. Video by Chris Chasapis.