Vol. 1: Beginnings Pre-Teenbeat I Pre-Teenbeat II Rapt In A Blanket Came To See You Amygdala Extract [Pre-Legend Demo] Teenbeat Citizen King Nirvana For Moles With The Yellow Half Moon And Blue Star
Written-By – Introduction Invocation Demi-lune Jaune Three Little Steps Red Riff Chorale Flautando Cycling Over The Cliff First Light Guider Tells Of Silent Airborne Machine Olwyn Grainger
Written-By – Betty McGowan
Written-By – Lottie Hare
Written-By – Vol. 2: 1974-5 Introduction Ruins I Half Asleep, Half Awake Ruins II Heron Shower Over Hamburg Nix Halsteren Halsteren 1
Voice – Vol. 3: Hamburg Fair As The Moon Nirvana For Rabbits Ottawa Song Twilight Bridge Gloria Gloom Hamburg 1 Hamburg 2 Red Noise 10 Hamburg 3 Hamburg 4 Hamburg 5 Terrible As An Army With Banners A Heart Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road We Did It Again Vols. 4 & 5: Trondheim Trondheim I
Part 1 of 40th Anniversary Box. Comes in a cardboard box with 5 discs in 4 jewel cases and a 60-page book inside. An empty jewel case is a placeholder for the "Concerts" CD.
Tracks 1-1, 1-2 & 1-5 from rehearsal tapes, recorded by Jack Balchin, date unknown but before Legend. Other tracks [on disc 1] from various unmarked tapes 1971-3.
Tracks 2-1 to 2-5: Unmarked tape, 1974. Tracks 2-7 to 2-23: Recorded by Jan Smagge at the concert with stereo reel-to-reel at the Verenigingsgebouw, Halsteren on 26 September 1974. Concert mix by Charles Fletcher, we think. Tracks 2-24 to 2-32: Recorded at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on May 8 1975, probably to cassette, by unidentified hand.
Tracks 3-1 to 3-13 Public concert recorded for NDR Jazz Workshop, Hamburg on 26th March, 1976. Track 3-14 Piazza Navona, Rome, 27 June, 1975. With Robert Wyatt. Unknown audience source. Track 3-15 Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on May 8, 1975, probably to cassette, by an unidentified hand.
Tracks 4-1 to 5-7 recorded at Studentersamfundet, Trondheim 26 May, 1976. Cassette recording from mixing desk made by band.
Released & Distributed by: ReR Megacorp Distributed in USA by: ReR USA Distributed in Japan by: Locus Solus
"FULL SET LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES" [text on bottom of box]
credits
6-String Bass – - Fred Frith (tracks: 4-1 to 5-7)Artwork [Poster Letters] – - E.M Thomas * Bass – - John Greaves (tracks: 1-1 to 3-15)Celesta [Celeste], Voice [Conversation] – - Dave Stewart (tracks: 1-6)Clarinet – - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 2-7 to 2-23)Design – - Tim Schwartz Drums – - Chris Cutler Edited By – - Chris Cutler Flute – - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10)Guitar – - Fred Frith Jew's Harp [Jaw Harp] – - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 5-1 to 5-7)Mastered By – - Bob Drake Mixed By ["We Think"] – - Charles Fletcher (tracks: 2-7 to 2-23)Mixed By [Concert] – - Joel Schwartz Mixed By [Live Concert, "Probably"] – - Neil Sandford (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13)Mixed By [Live Concert] – - Sarah Greaves (tracks: 2-24 to 2-32, 3-14, 3-15)Oboe, Bassoon – - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 2-1 to 2-5, 2-24 to 2-32, 3-1 to 5-7)Organ, Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax] – - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 2-1 to 3-15)Organ, Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax], Melodica, Clarinet – - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 1-1, 1-19)Organ, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Mbira, Voice, Tape [Tapes] – - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 5-1 to 5-7)Organ, Clarinet, Voice, Tape [Tapes] – - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10)Performer [Flotsam] – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10)Performer [Glass Bowls, Clatter] – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 2-7 to 2-23)Performer [Jetsam] – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 5-1 to 5-7)Performer [Prism] – - Fred Frith (tracks: 2-7 to 2-23)Performer [Telephone Mouthpices, Amplification] – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 4-1 to 5-7)Photography By [Vol. 1, 3] – - Brian Cooke (2) Photography By [Vol. 1] – - Francis Fontaine Photography By [Vol. 3] – - Gianni Castellana , - Sergio Pozzi Photography By [Vol. 4, 5] – - Lucio Briganti Piano – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 1-18, 5-1 to 5-7), - Fred Frith (tracks: 2-1, 3-1, 3-4, 3-12, 3-13), - John Greaves (tracks: 1-18, 1-19, 2-3), - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 2-24 to 2-32, 3-8 to 3-11, 4-7 to 4-9)Recorded By – - Jack Balchin (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-5), - Jan Smagge (tracks: 2-7 to 2-23)Recorder – - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10)Remastered By – - Bob Drake (tracks: 1-1 to 1-19, 3-1 to 3-15)Tape [Tapes] – - Fred Frith (tracks: 4-1 to 5-7)Tape [Tapes], Voice – - Lindsay Cooper (tracks: 4-1 to 5-7)Tubular Bells – - Fred Frith (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10)Viola – - Fred Frith (tracks: 2-1 to 2-5, 2-24 to 2-32)Violin – - Fred Frith (tracks: 1-1 to 1-19, 4-1 to 4-10)Voice – - Chris Cutler (tracks: 4-1 to 4-10), - Dagmar Krause (tracks: 2-24 to 2-32, 3-1 to 3-15), - Fred Frith (tracks: 1-3, 1-4), - John Greaves (tracks: 1-3, 1-4, 3-3), - Robert Wyatt (tracks: 3-14, 3-15), - Tim Hodgkinson (tracks: 1-7)Voice [Conversation] – - Amanda Parsons (tracks: 1-6), - Ann Rosenthal (tracks: 1-6)Voice [Spoken Passages] – - D.J. Perry (tracks: 1-9, 1-16)Xylophone – - Fred Frith (tracks: 2-24 to 2-32, 4-1 to 5-7)
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