Mirror Man (Act 1: Jack & The General)

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1999-03-22

Label: Cooking Vinyl

Packaged in a standard jewel case with an 8-page booklet. Track durations are not printed on the release.

Mirror Man was commissioned by the South Bank Centre, London, and performed April 3 1998 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the 4-day festival, "David Thomas: Disastodrome!"

℗ 1998 UBU PROJEX
© 1999 COOKING VINYL
Made in England

This pressing was manufactured by Technicolor, in a previous Nimbus plant, taken over by Technicolor in 1998 (one year before this release), with Nimbus logo still appearing in matrix.
Different versions exist from different manufacturers (also identified through matrix), see Mirror Man (Act 1: Jack & The General) and Mirror Man (Act 1: Jack & The General).

The 15 pieces named on the booklet do not correspond directly to the 11 album tracks, each of which contains sections of multiple pieces. David Thomas has answered the question 'The CD player says ... there are only 11 cuts, while the CD booklet lists 15 titles': 'Clearly I mean to shortcircuit the pearls-on-a-string format and since the event flows from one "piece" to a narrative to the next "piece" I want to force the listener to (1) hear the introductory narrative and (2) to recognize that by skipping around the listener is interrupting the event.'

The sub-tracks were determined using the credited lyrics provided on Thomas' site and entered in the tracklisting by order of appearance. The site names "Mirror Man Sees" as "What Mirror Man Sees".

The booklet credits are correct but only partial:
Linda Thompson sang Over The Moon, Bus Called Happiness and Nowheresville. Robert Kidney sang Lost Nation Road, Memphis and Weird Cornfields. Jackie Leven sang Morbid Sky. David Hild sang his own composition, Florida. Jane Bom-Bane sang Montana.
David Thomas sang Nowheresville. Andy Diagram played trumpet. Keith Moliné played midiguitar. Peter Hammill played harmonium, guitar and keyboard. Chris Cutler played electric drums. Jack Kidney played tenor sax and harp. David Thomas played melodeon.
Bob Holman recited his own composition, Mirror Man Speaks.