From The Troubadour and McCabe's, Sept 27 - Oct 2, 1994 Los Angeles
Limited edition, 10,000 copies
Contains pre-recorded material

Produced and arranged by Hector Zazou

Mixed by Gilles Martin & Hector Zazou (Jet Studios, Brussels)

Executive Producers: Jacques Pasquier & Tanis Kmetyk

artwork and design by pop X studio (Bruxelles)
photo by Maria Dawlat

English texts based on Paul Schmidt's translations

Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry appear courtesy of Dead Can Dance and 4AD

• Youth
  All calculations set to one side;
  The inevitable Descent from Heaven,
  A visitation of memories and a seance of rhythms
  Invades my house, my head,
  And the world to mind.

  A horse leaps forward on suburban turf,
  Past planted fields and streches of woods
  Misty with carbonic plague.
  A wretched theatrical woman, somewhere in the world,
  Sighs after an improbable indulgence.
  Desperadoes lie dreaming of storm, and of wounds and debauch.
  Along small streams the little children sit,
  Stifling their curses.

  Let us turn once more to our studies,
  To the noise of insatiable movement
  That forms and ferments in the masses.

  (words: Rimbaud / music: Perry-Gerrard-Zazou)

  Brendan Perry: vocals, bodhran, percussion, darbuka & tin whistle
  Lisa Gerrard: vocals
  Susan Deihim: middle vocals
  David Sylvian: guitars
  Nabil Khalidi: oud
  Christian Lechevretel: trombones
  Daniel Yvenee: bass
  Hector Zazou: synth & sampled guitars

  Engineers: Jean-Loup Morette (Davout),
  Brendan Perry (Quivvy Church Studio, Eire)
  Arrangements cuivres: C. Lechevretel

  
  
• Black Stream
  Where the stars sleep in the calm black stream,
  Like some great lily, pale Ophelia floats,
  Slowly floats, wound in her veils like a dream.
  Half heard in the woods, halloos from distant throats.

  A thousand years has sad Ophelia gone
  Glimmering on the water, a phantom fair:
  A thousand years her soft distracted song
  Has waked the answering evening air.

  (words: Rimbaud / music: Perry-Gerrard-Zazou)

  Lisa Gerrard: vocals & yang ch'in
  Brendan Perry: synth
  Lightwave: synth & electronic percussion
  Ryuichi Sakamoto: piano
  Hector Zazou: synth & samplers

  Engineers: Jean-Loop Morette (Davout), Giles Martin (Jet),
  Brendan Perry (Quivvy Church Studio, Eire)
  Arrangements cuivres: Pion-Lechevretel

  
  
• XLI-Jeunesse
  Original version of Youth
  Les calculs de cote', l'ine'vitable descente du ciel et la visite des souvenirs et la se'ance des rhythmes occupent la demeure, la tete et le monde de l'esprit.

  Un cheval de'tale sur le turf suburbain et le long des cultures et des boisements, perce' par la peste carbonique. Une mise'rable femme de drame, quelque part dans le monde, soupire apre's l'orage, l'ivresse et les blessures. De petits enfants e'touffent des male'dictions le long des rivie'res.

  Reprenons l'e'tude au bruit de l'oeuvre d'evorante qui se rassemble et remonte dans les masses.
  

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  The poem is by Arthur Rimbaud, French symbolist poet extraordinaire, and is from a large work of his entitiled "The Illuminations." "Youth" is poem 41 in the series.

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