Track listing

1. "Wonderful World" (Jansen, Sylvian) - 6:02
2. "Darkest Birds" (Jansen, Sylvian) - 5:03
3. "The Banality of Evil" (Friedman, Sylvian) - 7:59
4. "Atom and Cell" (Jansen, Sylvian) - 7:06
5. "A History of Holes" (Friedman, Sylvian) - 8:02
6. "Snow Borne Sorrow" (Jansen, Sylvian) - 6:23
7. "The Day the Earth Stole Heaven" (Friedman, Motzer, Sylvian) - 3:19
8. "Serotonin" (Friedman, Sylvian) - 5:54
9. "The Librarian" (Friedman, Sylvian) - 9:01

Personnel

• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   - vocals, keyboards (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7), guitar (1, 2, 3, 8), engineer, mixing, art direction
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   - piano (4, 6), piano treatment (6)
• Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....
  
   - drums (1, 2, 5, 7, 9), percussion (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9), engineer, mixing, keyboards (1, 4, 6, 7), sample programming (1, 2, 4, 6, 8)
• Burnt Friedman - engineer, mixing (7), Drum Programming (3), keyboards (3), piano [Toy] (5, 9), synth Ms 20 (7, 9), Vocoder (7), Loops (9), Percussion [Pan] (9)
• Wes Mills - cover artwork
• Chris Bigg - design
• Keith Lowe
  Keith Lowe
  Keith Lowe is a British author. His first novel, Tunnel Vision , follows a man who is challenged to visit every station of the London Underground in a single day. His second novel is New Free Chocolate Sex .Lowe grew up in Hampstead in London, sharing a bedroom with four brothers and a sister...
  
   - double bass (1), bass (2, 5, 7, 9)
• Stina Nordenstam
  Stina Nordenstam
  Stina Nordenstam is a singer, songwriter and musician.-Career:Nordenstam's voice led to early comparisons with artists such as Rickie Lee Jones and Björk. Her early albums, Memories of a Colour and And She Closed Her Eyes were jazz-influenced with elements of alternative rock...
  
   - vocals (1)
• Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
   - trumpet (2, 4, 6)
• Neal Sutherland - bass (3)
• Hayden Chisholm
  Hayden Chisholm
  Hayden Chisholm is an New Zealand composer, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist....
  
   - clarinet (3, 7, 8, 9), sax (5, 7)
• Riff Pike III - electric guitar (3)
• Thomas Hass - sax (3 first solo, 7)
• Theo Travis
  Theo Travis
  Theo Travis is a British saxophonist and flautist.Travis received his degree in flute and saxophone from the University of Manchester and has worked among others with Robert Fripp, Gong, Porcupine Tree, The Tangent, Bill Nelson, Bass Communion, No-Man, Steven Wilson, David Sylvian, Harold Budd,...
  
   - sax (3 second solo, 5), flute (5)
• Carsten Skøv - vibraphone (3)
• Morten Grønvad - vibraphone (3, 5, 7, 9)
• Tim Motzer - electric guitar (5, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (7)
• Tim Elsenburg - guitar (5)
• Joseph Suchy - electric guitar (7)
• Daniel Schroeter - bass (8)
• Eska G. Mtungwazi, Marcina Arnold - Backing Vocals (3)
• Andrea Grant, Derek Green - Backing Vocals (4)
• Beverlei Brown, Tommy Blaize - Backing Vocals (4, 7, 8)

• Thanks to: Jan Bang, Richard Chadwick, Matthew Davidson (Motu), David De Almieda Sampaio, David Franzke, Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
  , Yuka Fujii, Oke Göttlich, Axel Hartmann (Neuron), Jaki Liebzeit, Keith Lowe, Jerome Marcus (Sabian), MDM, David Millman, Wes Mills, Adrian Molloy, Byron at Moose Mastering, Patric Oliver (Popercussion), Judith Ruzicka, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Marcus Schmickler
  Marcus Schmickler
  Marcus Schmickler is a German composer, musician and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon....
  
  , Simon Stock (Musictrack), Joseph Suchy, Skúli Sverrison, Yukihiro 'Happy' Yoshida (Tama), Cycling 74, Earthworks Audio (Alex Khenkin).
• Mixed at Samadhisound