Kondole is a 1989 album by electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 group 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 is named after the mythical figure, Kondole

Kondole

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Kondole was a mean and rude man. One night, the performers during a ceremony needed someone to keep a fire going; Kondole was the only one with fire, and he hid in the bush. The men argued with him, and one got frustrated and threw a spear into Kondole's skull....

, from an aboriginal creation myth from the peoples of Encounter Bay

Encounter Bay

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, Southern Australia.

"Thee music for KONDOLE was written before either ov thee two films, for which it has becoum a soundtrack, were made. Thee first part is modelled around aboriginal rhythms and instruments. Thee second part is our first full exploration of true beat. Both sections use natural sounds processed as well as instrumentation."

- from back of record sleeve & CD booklet

The album was featured and reviewed as 'Album of the Month' for February 2010 on Head Heritage, Julian Cope

Julian Cope

Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...

's Website

CD - KONDOLE/DEAD CAT, Temple Records, TOPY 046 CD (1989)

This edition of the CD is one single 60:13 track.

1. "Part One" - (0:00 - 48:06)
2. "Part Two" - (48:06 - 60:13, hence 12:07)

CD - Silent Records, SR9332 (1993)

1. "Deadcat" - 23:00
2. "Thee Whale" - 23:00
3. "Thee Shadow" - 23:00

Production Credits from TOPY editions

(all spelling and punctuation/formatting is intentional, direct from CD inlay card)

KONDOLE - OV DOLPHINS AND WHALES

Thee First Part ov this music was recorded at Time Square Studios, Chiswick, London on thee 23 January 1988. It is thee soundtrack to 23 minute film called "KONDOLE (THEE WHALE)" at present in production by David Lewis and Andy Crabb.

Thee Second Part ov this music was recorded at Time Square Studios, Chiswick, London on the 23rd January 1989. It is thee soundtrack to an already coumpleted film by David Lewis called "DEAD CAT". Full details can be found inside this booklet.

For thee realisation ov Part One ov Kondole Psychic TV were:
Matthew Best; Richard Evans; 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,...

; 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...

, and Daniel Black.

All music for "Kondole (Part One)" was written by Genesis P-Orridge and published by COMPLETE MUSIC 1989.

Produced by Genesis P-Orridge.

Engineered by Richard Evans.

For thee realisation ov Part Two ov Kondole Psychick TV were:
Fred Giannelli

Fred Giannelli

Fred Giannelli is an electronic musician born 1960 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He began experimenting with electronics in the late 1970s as Turning Shrines. In 1984, Giannelli met Psychic TV's Genesis P. Orridge while the group was in Boston for a gig. This led to Giannelli eventually flying to...

; Genesis P-Orridge.

All music for "Kondole (Part Two)" was written by Genesis P-Orridge and Fred Giannelli and published by COMPLETE MUSIC/COPYRIGHT CONTROL 1989.

Produced by Fred Giannelli and Genesis P-Orridge.

Engineered by Richard Schiessl.

WITH TRUE THANKS FOR INSPIRATION TO: JOHN LILLY

John C. Lilly

John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer....

; TIMOTHY WYLLIE

Timothy Wyllie

Timothy Wyllie is a writer specialising in the study of "non-human intelligences" such as angels.He was born in London in 1940. He moved to America in the mid-sixties and now lives in the desert of New Mexico. He had a near death experience in 1973...

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ALAURA

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...

; Z'EV

Z'EV

Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...

; and all WHALES

Whale

Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...

, DOLPHINS

Dolphin

Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from and , up to and . They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating...

, EXTRATERRESTRIALS and ANGELS

Angel

Angels are mythical beings often depicted as messengers of God in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles along with the Quran. The English word angel is derived from the Greek ἄγγελος, a translation of in the Hebrew Bible ; a similar term, ملائكة , is used in the Qur'an...

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