Dreams Less Sweet
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Dreams Less Sweet is the second proper album by Psychic TV
Psychic TV
Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...

. The album was released in Holophonic sound
Holophonics
Holophonics is a binaural recording system created by Hugo Zuccarelli that is claimed to be based on the claim that the auditory system acts as an interferometer. The sound characteristics of Holophonics are most clearly heard through headphones, though can be demonstrated to be effective with 2...

.

1983 12" vinyl pressing

Side A:
  1. "Hymn 23"
    • Synthesizer (Emulator): Andrew Poppy
      Andrew Poppy
      Andrew Poppy is an English composer, pianist, and record producer.-Biography:From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London, studying piano with Susan Bradshaw and earning a B.M...

  2. "The Orchids"
    • Oboe: Jessica Ilbert
  3. "Botanica"
  4. "Iron Glove"
    • Lyrics written by: Monte Cazazza
      Monte Cazazza
      Monte Cazazza is an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape the early landscape of industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.-Career:...

  5. "Always Is Always"
    • Counter tenor vocals: Mark Harris
  6. "White Nights"
    • Hammond organ
      Hammond organ
      The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

       by: Steve Broughton
    • Harmony vocals by: Micky Groome
      Micky Groome
      Micky Groome is an English bassist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer.- Early life and career :...

  7. "Finale"
  8. "Eleusis"
  9. "Medmenham"
    • Kangling
      Kangling
      Kangling is the Tibetan word for a trumpet or horn made out of a human thighbone, used in Himalayan Buddhist funeral rituals. The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred....

      , Tibetan singing bells, Tibetan Singing bowl
      Singing bowl
      Singing bowls are a type of bell, specifically classified as a standing bell. Rather than hanging inverted or attached to a handle, singing bowls sit with the bottom surface resting...

      : David Tibet
      David Tibet
      David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...

  10. "Ancient Lights"
  11. "Proof On Survival"


Side B:
  1. "Eden 1"
  2. "Eden 2"
  3. "Eden 3"
  4. "Clouds Without Water"
  5. "Black Moon"
  6. "Silver And Gold"
    • Kangling
      Kangling
      Kangling is the Tibetan word for a trumpet or horn made out of a human thighbone, used in Himalayan Buddhist funeral rituals. The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred....

      , Tibetan singing bells, Tibetan Singing bowl
      Singing bowl
      Singing bowls are a type of bell, specifically classified as a standing bell. Rather than hanging inverted or attached to a handle, singing bowls sit with the bottom surface resting...

      : David Tibet
      David Tibet
      David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...

  7. "In The Nursery"
  8. "Circle"
    • Recorder
      Recorder
      The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...

      : Mark Harris

Album notes

  • Original choral and orchestral arrangements by: Andrew Poppy
    Andrew Poppy
    Andrew Poppy is an English composer, pianist, and record producer.-Biography:From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London, studying piano with Susan Bradshaw and earning a B.M...

  • Bass, Performer [Vibes], Kangling
    Kangling
    Kangling is the Tibetan word for a trumpet or horn made out of a human thighbone, used in Himalayan Buddhist funeral rituals. The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred....

    , Tibetan singing bells: Geff Rushton
    John Balance
    John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson...

  • Drums, performer (vibes), percussion: Paula P-Orridge
    Paula P-Orridge
    Paula P-Orridge , also known as Alaura O'Dell, is an English musician.P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge while working at a Tesco supermarket in Hackney, East London.Prior to meeting Genesis she had had some connection to the Industrial...

  • Guitar, bells, tambourine, voice: Alex Fergusson
    Alex Fergusson (musician)
    Alex Fergusson is a Scottish guitarist / record producer.Fergusson formed the punk band Alternative TV with Mark Perry in 1977, and a few years later Psychic TV with Genesis P Orridge...

  • Bass vocals: Jeremy Birchill
  • Tenor vocals: Anthony Scales, Rob Scales
  • Counter tenor vocals: Mark Harris
  • Marimba, Snare drums, Percussion (Temple Blocks): Simon Limbrick
  • Oboe, English Horn: Chris Redgate, Jessica Ilbert
  • Trumpet: Andy Calard, Bill Stokes
  • Tuba: Dave Powel
  • Producer: Ken Thomas, Psychic TV
  • Emulator (synth), Digital loops, Bells, Church organ, voice: Peter Christopherson
    Peter Christopherson
    Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

  • Vocals, bass, violin, emulator (synth), drums, Kangling
    Kangling
    Kangling is the Tibetan word for a trumpet or horn made out of a human thighbone, used in Himalayan Buddhist funeral rituals. The femur of a criminal or a person who died a violent death is preferred....

    , Tibetan singing bells: Genesis P-Orridge
    Genesis P-Orridge
    Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...

  • Notes: Licenced to CBS Records by Some Bizarre. Early copies came with a limited 12" The Full Pack
    The Full Pack
    The Full Pack is a 12" vinyl EP by Psychic TV. It was included with initial orders of Dreams Less Sweet.-Track listing:Side A#"The Full Pack" - 13:41Side B#"The Mad Organist" - 1:35#"Catalan" - 5:39-References:*...

    with additional unreleased tracks.

  • Vocals on "Iron Glove" performed by Monte Cazazza
    Monte Cazazza
    Monte Cazazza is an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape the early landscape of industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.-Career:...

    in San Francisco, via telephone.
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