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Skeleton Crew – Skeleton Crew

Label: ReR Megacorp – ReR/FRO 8/9, Fred Records – ReR/FRO 8/9
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
All Media, Compilation
Country: UK & US
Released: 2005
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Style: Avantgarde, Experimental, Prog Rock
Learn To Talk
1-1 Que Viva / Onwards And Upwards 7:37
1-2 The Way Things Fall (Back Apart)
Words By – Rebby Sharp, Tom Cora
2:33
1-3 Not My Shoes 2:16
1-4 The Washington Post
Arranged By [Arr.] – Skeleton Crew (2)
Music By – Sousa*
1:31
1-5 We're Still Free 4:09
1-6 Victoryville 2:50
1-7 Los Colitos / Life At The Top
Music By – Frith*, Cora*
Music By [Los Colitos] – Trad. Ecuador*
Voice [Extra On Los Colitos] – Katrin*, Röbl*
4:35
1-8 Learn To Talk 3:52
1-9 Factory Song
Words By – Tom Cora
4:49
1-10 It's Fine 4:16
1-11 Zach's Flag
Music By – Cora*
3:01
1-12 Sick As A Parrot 2:58
1-13 Automatic Pilot 1:27
1-14 Hook
Alto Saxophone, Percussion – Dave Newhouse
Music By – Frith*
2:15
1-15 Killing Time
Music By – Laswell*, Frith*, Maher*
2:26
The Country Of Blinds
2-1 The Country Of Blinds 4:09
2-2 The Border
Words By – Anne Hemenway
3:30
2-3 The Hand That Bites 5:32
2-4 Dead Sheep 3:22
2-5 Bingo 3:25
2-6 Man Or Monkey
Arranged By [Arr.] – Skeleton Crew (2)
Music By – Frith*, Cora*
2:30
2-7 Foot In Hole 3:09
2-8 Hot Field 2:37
2-9 The Birds Of Japan 3:59
2-10 You May Find A Bed
Words By – Fred Frith, Rebby Sharp
6:12
2-11 Sparrow Song
Music By – Frith*
1:29
2-12 Safety In Numbers 3:18
2-13 Howdywhoola Too
Cello, Sampler, Percussion – Tom Cora
Music By – Cora*
2:47
2-14 Second Rate 5:32
2-15 New Orleans Stomp
Arranged By [Arr.] – Skeleton Crew (2)
Music By – Jelly Roll Morton
3:14
2-16 Hasta La Victoria 3:24
Distributed By – ReR Megacorp
Distributed By – ReR USA
Distributed By – Locus Solus
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fred Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Anthill Music
Copyright © – Fred Records
Copyright © – Anthill Music
Recorded At – Sunrise Studios
Recorded At – Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
Recorded At – Théâtre Dunois
Recorded At – Illinois State University
Recorded At – CBGB
Recorded By – WCBN
Remastered At – Headless Buddha Mastering Lab
Manufactured By – MorphiusDisc Manufacturing – MORPH-13280
Made By – DCA (3) – DCA19021
Made By – DCA (3) – DCA19022
Accordion – Tom Cora (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Cello, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Performer [Contraptions] – Tom Cora (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 2-1 to 2-10)
Design – Tomas Kurth
Engineer – Fred Frith (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 1-7 to 1-11), Hairi Vogel (tracks: 2-1, 2-3 to 2-10), Robert Vogel (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 1-7 to 1-11), Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 2-1, 2-3 to 2-10)
Engineer [Assistant] – Katrin Brändli (tracks: 2-1, 2-3 to 2-10)
Guitar, 6-String Bass, Violin, Drums, Vocals, Performer [Home-mades] – Fred Frith (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 2-1 to 2-10)
Organ, Harp [Electric], Accordion, Drums, Vocals – Zeena Parkins (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Painting [Cover Painting] – Peter Bäder
Piano, Synthesizer [Casio] – Fred Frith (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Producer – Vogel* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Skeleton Crew (2) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Remastered By, Compiled By – Fred Frith, Myles Boisen
Synthesizer [Casio], Drums [Home-made] – Tom Cora (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Transferred By [Archival Transfers From Cassette To CD Assistant] – Jon Leidecker (tracks: 1-12 to 1-14, 2-11, 2-13, 2-14, 2-16)
Transferred By [Archival Transfers From Cassette To CD] – Vance Galloway (tracks: 1-12 to 1-14, 2-11, 2-13, 2-14, 2-16)
Learn To Talk recorded Christmas and New Year 1983-1984 at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg.
Track 1-6, recorded at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in 1983. The additional material heard on this song is the result of a malfunctioning tape recorder.
Part of track 1-7 was recorded by WCBN in Quebec City and is used by courtesy of the station, with thanks.
Track 1-12 & 1-13 recorded 1984 live in Lyon.
Track 1-14 recorded 1982 live at 24, Rue Dunois, Paris.
Track 1-15 recorded 4th November 1984 live at Illinois State University, Normal (originally released on Passed Normal)

The Country Of Blinds recorded December 1985 / January 1986 at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg.
Track 2-2 and the last section of track 2-10 recorded 4th November 1985 live in Reykjavik.
Track 2-11, 2-13 & 2-14, place and date unknown, from cassette recorded during European tour, 1985.
Track 2-12 originally released on A Classic Guide To No Man's Land.
Track 2-15 recorded April 1985 at CBGB, New York (originally released on Hallelujah, Anyway- Remembering Tom Cora).
Track 2-16 recorded 1985 at the Isabella, Toronto.

Tracks 1-12 to 1-15 and 2-11 to 2-16 were not included on the original LP albums.
Remastered and compiled January / May 2005 at Headless Buddha, Oakland.
Archival transfers from cassette to CD made September 2000.

℗ & © Fred Records / Anthill Music
Made in USA
Distributed in USA by ReR USA
Distributed in Japan by Locus Solus
Distributed by ReR Megacorp

Packaging: 6 panel, clear plastic Digipak
Barcode (On Strip): 7 52725 90142 0