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tracks 14 alto clarinet Derek Apps
artwork Nick Thornton Jones
artwork Warren Du Preez
tracks 2,12 balalaika Patrick Wolf
tracks 13 bass Alec Empire
tracks 6,14 bass clarinet Derek Apps
tracks 3 bass guitar Nick Haward
tracks 2,3,7 cello Tim Wells
tracks 1,5,11,12 cello [twelve piece strings] Helen Rathbone
tracks 1,5,11,12 cello [twelve piece strings] Ivan Hussey
tracks 1,5,11,12 cello [twelve piece strings] Vicky Matthews
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Aaron Sokell
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Amy Stead
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Chinique Blackwood
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Jenny LaTouche
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Patsy McKay
tracks 2,7,8,11 choir [gospel choir] Waleed Issacs
tracks 9, 13 co-producer Alec Empire
tracks 1-7, 10-12, 14 co-producer Jonathan Shakhovskoy
tracks 8 co-producer Matthew Herbert
tracks 2,7,8,11 conductor [gospel choir] Patrick Wolf
tracks 2,7,8,11 conductor [gospel choir] Patsy McKay
tracks 1,5,11,12 conductor [twelve piece strings] Fiona Brice
tracks 6,10,12,14 double bass Nick Haward
drums Marcello Vig
tracks 12 dulcimer [appalachian mountain dulcimer] Patrick Wolf
tracks 9,13 electronics Alec Empire
tracks 2,3,5,14 electronics Patrick Wolf
engineer Al Lawson
engineer Catherin Marks
engineer David Emery
engineer Jonathan Krisp
engineer Jonathan Shakhovskoy
engineer Ken Thomas
engineer Mark Allaway
tracks 4, 5,1 0 fiddle Eliza Carthy
tracks 14 glass harmonica Thomas Bloch
tracks 4, 10 grand piano Patrick Wolf
tracks 13 guitar Alec Empire
tracks 2 guitar Thomas White
tracks 14 harmonium Patrick Wolf
tracks 6 harmonium [farsifa harmonium] Patrick Wolf
tracks 7 instruments [cristal baschet] Thomas Bloch
tracks 3 lead guitar Thomas White
mixed by Jonathan Shakhovskoy
mixed by Patrick Wolf
tracks 3, 6, 12 narrator Tilda Swinton
tracks 1 ,2, 7 ondes martenot Thomas Bloch
tracks 5, 8, 10, 14 organ [church organ] Patrick Wolf
photography by Nick Thornton Jones
photography by Warren Du Preez
tracks 6 piano Patrick Wolf
producer Patrick Wolf
tracks 9, 13 programmed by Alec Empire
tracks 3 programmed by Jonathan Shakhovskoy
tracks 8 programmed by Matthew Herbert
tracks 2 to 4, 13, 14 programmed by Patrick Wolf
tracks 7 programmed by [atari st] Patrick Wolf
tracks 7 programmed by [kantale] Patrick Wolf
tracks 2, 7 saw David Coulter
tracks 12 sitar Bishi
tracks 12 sounds [circuit bent mobile phone] Patrick Wolf
tracks 10 spoons Imelda Apps
strings [string arrangements] Fiona Brice
strings [string arrangements] Patrick Wolf
tracks 8 synthesizer Matthew Herbert
tracks 1, 3, 4 synthesizer [moog opus 3] Patrick Wolf
tracks 9 synthesizer [synthesis] Alec Empire
tracks 2,6 ukulele [baritone ukulele] Patrick Wolf
tracks 3 viola Patrick Wolf
tracks 11 viola [peregrine solo viola] Patrick Wolf
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 viola [twelve piece strings] Emma Owens
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 viola [twelve piece strings] Fiona Leggat
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 viola [twelve piece strings] Lucy Morgan
tracks 2, 3, 7, 8 violin Victoria Sutherland
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Deborah White
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Gillon Cameron
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Louisa Aldridge
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Sarah Button
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Stephen Hussey
tracks 1, 5, 11, 12 violin [twelve piece strings] Victoria Sutherland
tracks 4 vocals Eliza Carthy
tracks 2 to 14 vocals Patrick Wolf
tracks 6, 14 vocals [soprano choral vocals] Jo Apps
vocals [tribe vocals] Alice Davies
vocals [tribe vocals] Edward Larrikin
vocals [tribe vocals] Eliza Carthy
vocals [tribe vocals] Patrick Wolf
vocals [tribe vocals] Victoria Sutherland
vocals [tribe vocals] William Pollock
tracks 5, 6, 10 whistle [irish whistle] Rose Marie
tracks 9, 13 written-by Alec Empire
written-by Patrick Wolf
The album was recorded between 2008-2009 at the following studios: Parkgate Studios (Battle, Hastings); Olympic Studios (Barnes, London), The Hellish Vortex (Prenzlauberg, Berlin) Studio de La Reine (Paris), Assault and Battery Studios (London), The Dairy (Brixton, London), Bankside Lofts (SE1, London), Ken Thomas’s House (Arford), and The Fritzl Dungeon (Curtain Road, London). Church Organ recorded on location at St. George’s Church, Brede, Sussex.
Mixed at Chairworks Studios, Castleford; Music Box, London, and The Yard, London, and was mastered at Abbey Road by Geoff Pesche.
The Bachelor song lyrics are adapted from a traditional Appalachian poem entitled 'The Turtle Dove'.
℗ & © Bloodychambermusic/Battlecoltd 2009
Published by Chrysalis Music 2009 Except Vulture & Battle
Published by Chrysalis Music/Digital Hardcore Music 2009

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