Composed By - JG Thirlwell
Backing Vocals - Elena Moon Park, JG Thirlwell, Karen Waltuch, Leyna Marika Papach
Cello - Felix Fan
Keyboards, Sampler, Strings [Additional Piano], Tin Whistle - JG Thirlwell
Ocarina, Percussion - David Cossin
Piano - David Broome
Viola - Karen Waltuch
Violin - Elena Moon Park, Leyna Marika Papach
Arranged By - David Shohl (tracks: 2, 5, 6), JG Thirlwell, Ted Hearne (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Mastered By - Scott Hull
Recorded By, Mixed By - Marc Urselli
Artwork By [Design] - Heung-Heung Chen
Executive Producer - John Zorn
Executive Producer [Associative] - Kazunori Sugiyama
Photography [Portraits] - Marylene Mey
Producer - JG Thirlwell
Recorded and mixed at EastSide Sound in NYC
All compositions ECTOPIC MUSIC, ASCAP.
©℗ 2010 TZADIK
One of the most radical musical renegades since his early days in the 1980s as Foetus, JG Thirlwell has been expanding his musical language more recently through collaborations with classical musicians, improvisers and even robots! This CD is the long awaited third installment in his Manorexia trilogy, his most experimental instrumental grouping to date, and presents his dynamic music in colorful chamber arrangements for string quartet, piano, percussion and laptop. The compositions are in turn strongly rhythmical, cinematic and textural, disturbing yet beautiful.
Native of Melbourne, Australia, J.G. (Jim) Thirwell conceived the basic Foetus concept, when he relocated to London in 1978. The first Foetus release "OKFM / Spite Your Face" appeared in January 1981 on Thirwell's own Self Immolation label. Relocated this time to New York City in 1984, he operates since then under many monikers: mainly Foetus, but also Wiseblood (with Roli Mosimann), Steroid Maximus, Ectopic Ents International. Thirwell has also produced, mixed and/or performed on vast quantities of recordings including many of the releases on Lydia Lunch's Widowspeak label and artists as diverse as The The, Nurse With Wound, Pantera, Virgin Prunes, Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Coil, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arto Lindsay, Marc Almond and countless others...
Aliases: Bubba Kowalski, Clint Ruin, Foetus, Frank Want, Karl Satan And The Transvestites From Hell, Manorexia, Phillip Toss, Steroid Maximus
In Groups: Baby Zizanie, Come, The Flesh Volcano, Foetus Corruptus, Foetus In Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe, The Foetus Symphony Orchestra, Freq_Out, The Freq_Out Orchestra, Garage Monsters, Wiseblood