HoboSapiens is a 2003 album by John Cale

John Cale

John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....

, his first for EMI

EMI

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. Cale co-produced the album with Nick Franglen

Nick Franglen

Nick Franglen is a British musician, composer and record producer. He is best known as a founding member of the electronica duo Lemon Jelly.A classically trained musician and multi-instrumentalist, during the 1990s Franglen worked as a session keyboard player and drum programmer on studio...

 of Lemon Jelly

Lemon Jelly

Lemon Jelly is a British electronic music duo from London, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen. Lemon Jelly has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and BRIT Awards....

. The cover photography is by Jon Shard.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Cale

0. "Set Me Free" (hidden track
   Hidden track
   In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
   
   ) – 4:35
1. "Zen" – 6:03
2. "Reading My Mind" – 4:11
3. "Things" – 3:36
4. "Look Horizon" – 5:40
5. "Magritte" – 4:58
6. "Archimedes" – 4:40
7. "Caravan" – 6:43
8. "Bicycle" – 5:05
9. "Twilight Zone" – 3:49
10. "Letter From Abroad" – 5:10
11. "Things X" – 4:50
12. "Over Her Head" – 5:22

Personnel

• John Cale: keyboards, guitars, electric viola, viola, vocals, backing vocals, samples, bass, harmonium
• Andy Green: guitar, samples, additional production
• Erik Sanko: bass, slack dulmicer
• Joe Gore: guitar
• Emil Miland: cello
• Ryan Coseboom: samples
• Michael "Count" Eldridge: drum loops, samples
• Marco Giovino: drums, percussion
• Roberto, Daniele, Alba Clemente, Giovani: Italian voices
• Lance Doss: guitars, backing vocals
• John Kurzweig: guitars
• Joel Mark: guitars, bass
• Jeff Eyrich: bass
• Bill Swartz: drums
• Eden Cale: spoken words
• Dimitri Tokovoi: samples
• Brian Foreman: bass
• Shelley Harland: samples
• Lisa Bielawa, Elizabeth Farnum, Alexandra Montana, Gayla Morgan: a tonal voices
• Drum loop on "Bicycle" courtesy of Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
  

Executive producer: Nita Scott

The album contains a hidden track

Hidden track

In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...

, "Set Me Free", in the pregap

Pregap

The pregap on a Red Book audio CD is the portion of the audio track that precedes "index 01" for a given track in the table of contents . The pregap is typically two seconds long and usually, but not always, contains silence...

. It is not mentioned in the tracklisting, but it is inside the CD booklet. It can be played by rewinding track 1 to the -4:30 mark

External links

• "John Cale: Music for all tomorrow's parties" (The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
  
  , 10 October 2003)