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cello, guitar, mandolin Mark Stewart
cello, voice Margaret Parkins
design KimSu Theiler
didgeridoo Andy Haas
drums, vibraphone [vibes] Jim Pugliese
tracks 1a to 9 edited by, recorded by [rotwelsch texts] Alex Noyes
executive-producer John Zorn
executive-producer [associate producer] David Newgarden
executive-producer [associate producer] Kazunori Sugiyama
harp [electric], sampler, piano, producer, composed by Zeena Parkins
tracks 1a to 9 mixed by [extra ears in mixing] Anthony Coleman
photography by [photograph of zeena parkins] Margaret Lanzoni
tracks 10a to 15 recorded by, programmed by Alex Noyes
tracks 10a to 15 recorded by, technician [processing], edited by Elliott Sharp
tracks 1a to 9 samples [live and voice samples] Carsten Dane
samples [voice samples] Matthias Breitenbach
violin Sara Parkins
Phonographic Copyright (p) Tzadik
Copyright (c) Tzadik
Recorded At Point's West Studio
Recorded At Studio Pass
Recorded At Studio zOaR
Mixed At Studio Pass
Glass Mastered At Nimbus
Maul examines the lives and deaths of Jewish gangsters throughout the ages, using texts in the lost language of Rotwelsch (a Yiddish-based thieve's language used in Germany from the 14th to the 19th Century).
Recorded and mixed at Point's West Studio, December 28-30, 1995.
Digital editing at Studio Pass, January-February 1996.
All Rotwelsch texts were recorded at Studio Pass.



In Blue Mirror (named for the Newark night club owned by Longy Zwillman) all titles are names of Jewish gangsters from NYC in the first half of the 20th Century.
Recording and processing at Studio Pass + Studio zOaR, January-March, 1996.
Recording and MAX programming with H3000 January-February 1996.
Recording/processing/digital editing March 1996.

Cover photo - January 19, 1917.

© ℗ 1996 TZADIK

This recording was made possible in part by support from the Harvestworks/Studio Pass Artist-in-Residence Program.
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