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Release Date: 2024-11-01Label: Snowdonia
Issued in a 4-panel gatefold, matte-laminated sleeve. A 23-page, 30x30 cm booklet is glued onto the inner right panel.3-sided LP (disc number 2 only bears audio content on one side). Track durations listed on artwork.
A1: Samples from Awakening Jacob by Krzysztof Penderecki, The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music by Beaver & Krause, and Kassandra by Iannis Xenakis.
A3: Samples as follows: ANS photoelectronic synthesizer from Vivente Non Vivente by Sofia Gubaidulina; free jazz drums from albums by Andrea Centazzo, Han Bennink, Lino Liguori, Billy Higgins, Henry Texier.
B3: Percussions sampled From Eli Keszler and from Woodpecker by Sebastiano De Gennaro.
The bass riff, although it has never been played by Hugh Hopper, was constructed by assembling individual bass notes sampled from his performances with Soft Machine.
C2: Sampled violin played by Emanuele Parrini.
C3: Field recordings: Florence, wildlife at dusk along the banks of the river Arno, caught by ultrasound detector. As if all human beings had disappeared from Florence and nature was reclaiming the city.