Spiritflesh, by Nocturnal Emissions

Spiritflesh

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1.	T'Cow's Yed 04:03	buy track
2.	Acres of Gold 04:13	buy track
3.	Thor's Cave 04:36	buy track
4.	Cloud Can 03:29	buy track
5.	Boneshaker 03:23	buy track
6.	Ch'i Sea 04:39	buy track
7.	Raindance 03:52	buy track
8.	Ape Chime 04:08	buy track
9.	The Well is Deep 04:17	buy track
10.	Peter's Stone 02:39	buy track

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Recorded in London Zoological Gardens, the Derbyshire Dales and various sites in Great Britain between January and May 1988.

see also www.earthlydelights.co.uk

Spiritflesh includes drones, birdsong and other recordings of animals, percussion, effects. It is by no means the assault on your ears that industrial music is supposed to be***. I am sure that if you described those elements to most people they would dismiss it as new age cobblers. In fact, the album is incredibly involving... enveloping. I think this is because Nigel is able to combine the white light of ambience with a darker undercurrent, so the whole carries just enough weight and intensity. Too little and it would be cheesy in the same way that the whooshing positivity of trance is cheesy. Too much and we enter camp "hammer house of horror" cliches or the outright nastiness of much of the industrial scene.

I’m reluctant to get into a track by track dissection. The album sucks you into its own world but allows you the freedom to wander about. It is easy to forget that nobody else was producing music quite like this at the time, because so many people have been producing derivative versions ever since.

John Eden
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released June 1, 1988

Nigel Ayers plays Church Harmonium, Chimes, Music Box and Car Wipers together with all Digital and Analogue Treatments; including sampled voices of Chimpanzees, Cattle, African and European Wildfowl.

Steven Tanza plays Acoustic Drums on Thor's Cave, Boneshaker, Raindance and Peter's Stone.

Thanks to Danny Ayers for Cattle samples.

All titles composed by Nigel Ayers. Earthly Delights 1988.

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Nocturnal Emissions Cornwall, UK

Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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