"CHORE OF
ENCHANTMENT"
| THRILL JOCKEY | 2000 |
| CD | |
| THRILL 079 |
USA |
| Produced By | Tucson - John Parish |
| Memphis - Jim Dickinson | |
| New York - Kevin Salem | |
| Co-Produced By | Howe Gelb |
| Mastered By | Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound |
| Published By | Amazing Black Sand (BMI) except 16 - 1997 Mushed Music |
| All Songs By | Howe
Gelb except:- 16 - Rainer Ptacek |
| 1 | Overture | 0:48 |
| 2 | (well) Dusted (for the millennium) | 3:47 |
| 3 | Punishing Sun | 3:13 |
| 4 | X-tra Wide | 3:27 |
| 5 | 1972 | 1:03 |
| 6 | Temptation Of Egg | 3:41 |
| 7 | Raw | 3:29 |
| 8 | Wolfy | 4:25 |
| 9 | Shiver | 3:59 |
| 10 | Dirty From The Rain | 3:34 |
| 11 | Astonished (in Memphis) | 5:32 |
| 12 | No Reply | 4:34 |
| 13 | Satellite | 6:48 |
| 14 | Bottom Line Man | 4:41 |
| 15 | Way To End The Day | 4:47 |
| 16 | Shrine | 2:03 |
(Click titles for lyrics)
| Howe Gelb | Toys with guitar, piano and sung some hum |
| John Convertino | Drums some drum |
| Joe Burns | Strum bass strum |
| Juliana Hatfield | Backing vocals (6) |
| Sofie Albertsen Gelb | Backing vocals (9,15) |
| Jim Dickinson | Mellotron (2) Piano, Organ (11) |
| John Parish | Piano, Pump Organ (15) Door Shutter (16) |
| Kevin Salem | 2nd Lead guitar (3) Acoustic (4) Mellotron (9) |
| Susan Marshall-Powell | Backing vocals (4,11) |
| Jackie Johnson | Backing vocals (4,11) |
| William Brown | Backing vocals (4) |
| Rich Mercurio | Drums (4,9) |
| John Abbey | Bass (4,8,12) |
| Rob Arthur | Mellotron (4) Organ (9,12) |
| Nick Luca | Piano (5) |
| Neil Harry | Pedal Steel (7) |
| Alan Bezozi | Drum loop (8) |
| Scott Loder | Bass (9) |
| David Mansfield | Pedal steel (9,12) banjo (9) |
| Lydia Kavanaugh | Backing vocals (12) |
| Paula Brown | Bass, backing vocals (13) |
| Rainer | Slide (16) |
Dedicated with
Great Love to Thee Grand
Slider and Masterful Human Being:
RAINER JAROMIR PTACEK 1951-1997
Thanks to Kate Hyman for the severe pleasure.
ok now.
you are in a room with nothing but a candle.
no windows. no doors you can see.
you calm yourself to be at peace with this lacking.
you begin to savor the candle.
it takes almost as long to do this as it does for your eyes to adjust to
the flicker light of the room.
and then there on the floor in the corner, you can just make out a
silhouette of a boom box.
you push play
this is the cd that begins to play.
the batteries are low.
they won't last more than an hour.
fortunately this record is 59 minutes and 59 seconds long. but in truth,
before you spied this boom box you have already found the way to be at one
with the room and candle and did not need anything else. and it feels like
a chore to get up from your place and reach into the corner
you hope you don't need it.
you hope it sucks.
but if it does enchant,
this too will be a chore.
- hop-a-long howe