''Crystal Mass'' is the fourth album by

The Tear Garden The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/ experimental/ electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. An EP, ''The Tear G ...

, released four years after '' To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide''. It has the same line-up as the previous release. This was their last album released on Nettwerk.

Track listing

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# "Lament" – 6:28 # "The Double Spades Effect" – 5:13 # "Desert Island Disc" – 5:23 # "Hopeful" – 3:28 # "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" – 6:54 # "Castaway" – 5:17 # "Feathered Friends" – 4:56 # "To Mourn the Death of Colour" – 12:39 # "Six of One" – 7:26

Personnel

*Martijn de Kleer – acoustic guitar, violin, electric guitar *Rachel K. – artwork *

Edward Ka-Spel Edward Sharp, better known by his stage name Edward Ka-Spel, is an English singer-songwriter and musician, born in London on 23 January 1954, to a family with East Anglia connections. He is best known for his work with the band The Legendary Pin ...

– keyboards, vocals, producer, electronics * cEvin Key – acoustic guitar, percussion, drums, keyboards, producer, electronics, tapes *Remco Polman – image manipulation *Niels Van Hoorn – flute *Bill Van Rooy – hand percussion *Frankie Verschuuren – producer, engineer ''Crystal Mass'' has a tracking error: tracks 4 and 5 ("Hopeful" and "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster") are indexed as a single 10:23 track. In addition, the track listing on the album mistakenly titles track 6 as "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" when in fact it is "Castaway". "To Mourn the Death of Colour" is used as a lyric in

The Legendary Pink Dots The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. In 1984, the band moved to Amsterdam, playing with rotating musicians and having, as core members, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Edward Ka ...

song "Cheraderama".

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums The Tear Garden albums Nettwerk Records albums