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design [cover] DJ Cheb I Sabbah
design [cover] Inspiral Icon
engineer Naut Humon
producer, edited by, edited by [cut up], mixed by DJ Cheb I Sabbah
tracks 4, 6, 8, 9 recorded by [ira cohen] Bill Laswell
tracks 2, 3, 10 recorded by [ira cohen] Naut Humon
written-by [all poems and prose], read by, photography by Ira Cohen
It is dedicated to Brion Gysin.

Music of tracks 1, 6 and 11 recorded in Marrakesh in 1987.
Field recordings of track 4 recorded at Kumbh Mela festival in Hardwar in 1986; Tibetan Horns sampled from Tibetan Rituals on Auvidis/Unesco.
Recording in track 5 recording courtesy of Ossian K. MacLise, Sheldon Rochlin and Mystic Fire, circa 1964.
Field recordings of track 7 recorded in Tangier in 1961 and dedicated to Ira Cohen.
Recording of Don Cherry on track 8 at Earwax.
Music in track 9 from the track Midnight Sunrise on the album Dancing In Your Head.

All tracks engineered and assisted at Bloody Angle Studios.

All tracks © Cohen/Sabbah except 3 © Extreme and © Cohen/Sabbah
7 © Trance Records and © Cohen/Sabbah
8 © Eternal River and © Cohen/Sabbah
9 © Phrase Text Music, ASCAP and © Cohen/Sabbah
Lights in the Fat City appear courtesy of Extreme
All photos © Ira Cohen
Special thanks to John Solt, Bob Moore, Philippe Franck, Suzanne Thomas.

Track 7 is titled Allah Moulana Jilala inside the booklet, Allah Moulana on the sleeve.
Master Musicians of Jajouka are called The Master Musicians of Joujouka.

At last we are on the verge of cracking the st*r language.

This is a Digipak release.

Barcode: 5 411867 620693
Matrix / Runout: SR62 24 A1