STEPHAN THELEN
1/ Palermo (Thelen,Schwalm) 6.28
2/ Bullet Train (Thelen) 6.48
3/ Worlds In Collision (Thelen) 7.13
4/ Atomic (Thelen) 8.45
5/ Kosmonaut (Thelen) 8.45
6/ Voices From the Ether (Thelen) 8.16
7/ Coda (Thelen) 3.35
8/ Atomic (Bill Laswell Remix) (Thelen) 8.17
Drums recorded at Powerplay Studio A, September 20, 2023
Engineer: Reto Muggli
Assistant engineer: Andi Geisser.
David Torn's guitar recorded at Powerplay Studio A on October 31 and November 1, 2023
Engineer for David Torn at Powerplay: Reto Muggli
Reconstruction & mix-translation track 8: Bill Laswell with James Dellatacoma
at Orange Music, West Orange, NJ & Inwood 309, NYC
Edited and mixed in the box by Stephan Thelen
Produced by Stephan Thelen
Executive Producer for RareNoiseRecords: Giacomo Bruzzo
Mastered by Alexandr Vatagin
Coordination for Bill Laswell: Yoko Yamabe
David Torn: electric guitar & live looping; Jon Durant: electric & acoustic guitars, fretless guitar, cloud guitar & VCS3 guitar;
Fabio Anile: treated voices, Roland D 50 synth, sampled instruments, echoplex and glitch pianos, electronics & percussion; Yogev Gabay: drums;
Stephan Thelen: electric guitar, bass, delays, electronics, e-piano, organ, marimba, santur, samples, percussion & programming;
with:
Ian Allison: bass (4); Tim Harries: bass (1); Manuel Pasquinelli: percussion (1); Bill Laswell (8): bass, effects, electronics.
Sources:
Palermo:
- Sampled duduk, Roland D-50, distorted synth solo (03.19)
- Sampled voices recorded in the Ballaro market, Palermo (Italy)
Bullet Train:
- Roland D-50, distorted synth (02.07), electronics
- Sampled voice taken from a television series
Worlds in Collision:
- Various synths, percussions, electronics
- Sampled voices: U.S. television broadcast about the war in Iraq
- Excerpt from a speech delivered on March 6, 1994, by Colombian Prime Minister Luis Donaldo Colosio
- Sighing female voice from a TV series
- Medium wave radio broadcasts
Atomic:
- D-50 synth, various synths, Roland TR-808, Minimoog Model D
- Sampled voice: President Harry Truman announcing the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
Kosmonaut:
- Various synths, synthetic percussion, Moog
- Sampled voices: Field recording of a 'a fronna 'e limone folk chant
- Middle Eastern radio station
Voices from the Ether:
- Various synths - Roland D-50 (looped with Echoplex), Moog
- Waterphone
- String Quartet (VST)
- Sampled voice: Medium wave radio broadcasts
Coda:
- Synth loop (Echoplex)
- Sampled voices
2025 - RareNoise Records (UK), RNR136LP-1/RNR136LP-2 (2x12")
2025 - RareNoise Records (UK), RNR136 (CD)
Note: This came in Marbled Turqoise and Transparent Orange variants.