''Crystal Mass'' is the fourth album by
The Tear Garden, 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
Nettwerk Music Group is an independent record label founded in 1984.
The Vancouver-based company was created by principals Terry McBride and Mark Jowett as a record label to distribute recordings by the band Moev, but the label expanded in Ca ...
.
Track listing
All tracks by The Tear Garden
# "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
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Edward Ka-Spel – keyboards, vocals, producer, electronics
*
cEvin Key
Kevin William Crompton (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as cEvin Key, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known as a member of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded in 1982 ...
– 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 (aka 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 Edwar ...
song "Cheraderama".
References
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2000 albums
The Tear Garden albums
Nettwerk Records albums