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Release Date: 2022-06-10Label: Vertical Features
Limited edition of 300 copies. Issued in a six panel digisleeve housing the discs and an eight page booklet. Track durations are not printed on the release.CD1 is studio recordings, remastered from the original tapes, all recorded at the same time as debut Gnac album Friend Sleeping.
Tracks 1-1, 1-2 from The Moustache / Armchair Thriller 7" (worm 29) released by Earworm Records
Tracks 1-3, 1-6, 1-9 from the album Friend Sleeping (ves 010) releasead by Vespertine
Tracks 1-4, 1-5, 1-7 from In Mauve 7" (amy 007) released by Amberley Records
Tracks 1-8, 1-9 from A Tangle With... 7" (Kookydisc 007) released by Kooky Records
Track 1-11 is a loop made for a gallery exhibition in Utrecht in 1999 and was previously unreleased
CD2 is attic finds from cassette, MiniDisc and DAT.
Different versions of tracks 2-6 and 2-24 ended up on the first Montgolfier Brothers album, Seventeen Stars. These tracks are dedicated to the late Roger Quigley - 1969-2020 - Rest In Peace.
All tracks digitally remastered in Scotland from the original master tapes by Samuel J. Smith of Green Door Studios, Glasgow. Pressed on high quality glass-mastered replicated CDs.
First 75 orders received an accompanying set of five postcards designed by Timothy O'Donnell. One postcard of each set is signed and could be dedicated to the buyer (or anyone else). The five postcards are housed in a Gnac* hand-stamped and numbered brown envelope.
Catalogue number is "VF 700 CD" on disc labels, "VF·700·CD" on sleeve and "vf700cd" on booklet.
All artwork by Timothy O'Donnell including archive photographs and schematics.
This compilation ℗ 2022 Mark Tranmer / Vertical Features
© 1990-1999 Mark Tranmer
Printed tracklisting differences:
Track 2-2: Elizabeth
Track 2-3: Eyelash
Track 2-4: Autumn Arrives
Track 2-5: Continental Balcony Twilight