Through the Hill
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Through the Hill is an album
composed and performed by Andy Partridge
and Harold Budd
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
composed and performed by Andy Partridge
Andy Partridge
Andrew John "Andy" Partridge is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has been known as Sir John Johns and Melchior and rose to fame as a founding member, guitarist and chief songwriter of the pop/new wave band, XTC. He lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, where he was raised.Partridge also...
and Harold Budd
Harold Budd
Harold Budd is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires....
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Track listing
- Prelude
- 1. "Hand 19" – 1:22
- Geography
- 2. "Through the Hill" – 4:07
- 3. "Great Valley of Gongs" – 3:09
- 4. "Western Island of Apples" – 3:05
- 5. "Anima Mundi" – 4:46
- Interlude
- 6. "Hand 20" – 3:02
- Structures
- 7. "The Place of Odd Glances" – 3:19
- 8. "Well for the Sweat of the Moon" – 3:26
- 9. "Tenochtitlan's Numberless Bridges" – 3:57
- 10. "Ceramic Avenue" – 5:20
- Interlude
- 11. "Hand 21" – 1:55
- Artifacts
- 12. "Missing Pieces to the Game of Salt and Onyx" – 6:01
- 13. "Mantle of Peacock Bones" – 2:09
- 14. "Bronze Coins Showing Genitals" - 4:20
- 15. "Bearded Aphrodite" - 2:36
- Postlude
- 16. "Hand 22" - 2:25
- Bonus Track (Only on 2005 Re-Release)
- 17. "Bruegel" - 2:40