In This World (album)
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In This World is the 1988 album from Cindytalk
released by Midnight Music. Released as two different LPs under the same name. The CD contains all the tracks from both LPs in order. The LPs and the CD all feature different covers from the same image series. "Janey's Love" features an uncredited reading by Kathy Acker
from her novel Blood And Guts In High School
. "My Sun" features a sample from Jean-Luc Godard
's Vivre Sa Vie. "Playtime" differs from the version on the Abstract Magazine Issue 5 compilation.
Gordon Sharp - voice and piano
John Byrne - instruments
Alex Wright - instruments
Debbie Wright - saxophone on "Janey's Love", "Circle Of Shit", "The Room Of Delight";
clarinet on "Through Water"
Produced by Cindytalk and Iain O'Higgins.
Except Playtime produced by Cindytalk & Derek Birkett &
My Sun produced and written by Cindytalk & Derek Birkett.
Malou - accordion on "Cherish", "Homeless", "Still Whisper"
Ivan Unwin - treated harmonica on "No Serenade"; feedback guitar on "Circle Of Shit"
Paget - second voice on "In This World"
Cindytalk
Cindytalk is an experimental music group fronted by Gordon Sharp, a Scottish performer who has been the only constant member since its inception in 1982.-History:...
released by Midnight Music. Released as two different LPs under the same name. The CD contains all the tracks from both LPs in order. The LPs and the CD all feature different covers from the same image series. "Janey's Love" features an uncredited reading by Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
from her novel Blood And Guts In High School
Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School is a novel by Kathy Acker. It was written in the late 1970s and copyrighted in 1978. It traveled a complex and circuitous route to publication in 1984. It remains Acker's most popular and best-selling book. The novel is also considered a metafictional text, which is...
. "My Sun" features a sample from Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
's Vivre Sa Vie. "Playtime" differs from the version on the Abstract Magazine Issue 5 compilation.
Track listing CD
- In This World
- Janey's Love
- Gift Of A Knife
- Playtime
- The Room Of Delight
- Touched
- Circle Of Shit
- My Sun
- The Beginning Of Wisdom
- No Serenade
- Sight After Sight
- Angels Or Ghosts
- Through Water
- Cherish
- Homeless
- Still Whisper
- In This World...
Gordon Sharp - voice and piano
John Byrne - instruments
Alex Wright - instruments
Debbie Wright - saxophone on "Janey's Love", "Circle Of Shit", "The Room Of Delight";
clarinet on "Through Water"
Produced by Cindytalk and Iain O'Higgins.
Except Playtime produced by Cindytalk & Derek Birkett &
My Sun produced and written by Cindytalk & Derek Birkett.
Malou - accordion on "Cherish", "Homeless", "Still Whisper"
Ivan Unwin - treated harmonica on "No Serenade"; feedback guitar on "Circle Of Shit"
Paget - second voice on "In This World"
Versions
- LP 1988 Midnight Music, Cat# CHIME 00.27 S
- LP 1988 Midnight Music, Cat# CHIME 00.28 S
- CD 1988 Midnight Music, Cat# CHIME 00.27/28 CD
- CD 1995 Touched Recordings/World Serpent, Cat# Touch 2