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new album

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Could that be the voice?

12' vinyl 

 

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   Sixteen Haiku And Other Stories

International Project

(Hitch Hyke/Tongue Master Records)

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track listing and invited artists

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title

 

featuring vocalist

1

[Intro] on stage, 2

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Robert Wyatt

2

Haiku one

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Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab)

3

Haiku two

 

Martine Roberts (Broken Dog)

4

Haiku three in the museum garden

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Mark Mulcahy

5

Haiku four

 

Alejandro Escovedo

6

Haiku five

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Carla Torgerson (The Walkabouts)

7

Haiku six

 

Carla Torgerson & Akis Boyatzis

8

Haiku seven

 

Akis Boyatzis

9

Haiku eight

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Edith Frost

10

Haiku nine young fate

 

Mark Eitzel

11

Haiku ten

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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

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John Grant (The Czars)

17

Haiku fifteen

 

James William Hindle

18

Haiku sixteen

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Lee Ranaldo

19

Dead Sea (Logbook II)

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James Sclavunos (The Bad Seeds, The Vanity Set)

20

Water Warm (sketches for a summer)

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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