SIRE · CD 6093

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1. 1 America Is Waiting 3:36
2. 2 Mea Culpa 3:35
3. 3 Regiment 3:56
4. 4 Help Me Somebody 4:18
5. 5 The Jezebel Spirit 4:55
6. 6 Qu'ran 3:46
7. 7 Moonlight In Glory 4:19
8. 8 The Carrier 3:30
9. 9 A Secret Life 2:30
10. 10 Come With Us 2:38
11. 11 Mountain Of Needles 2:35
12. 12 Very, Very Hungry 3:20

Title from a novel by Amos Tutuola. Cover from a video by Brian Eno. All Songs Originally Recorded in 1979 and 1980. This edition includes both "Qu'ran" (track 6) and "Very, Very Hungry (track 12), as the first US edition. Voices: 1. Unidentified indignant radio host, San Francisco, April 1980. 2. Inflamed caller and smooth politician replying, both unidentified. Radio call-in show, New York, July 1979. 3. Dunya, Lebanese mountain singer (From 'The Human Voice in the World of Islam' Tangent Records TGS 131). 4. Reverend Paul Morton, broadcast sermon, New Orleans, June 1980. 5. Unidentified exorcist, New York, September 1980. 6. Algerian Muslims chanting Qu'ran. (Same source as 3). 7. The Moving Star Hall Singers, Sea Islands, Georgia (From 'The Moving Star Hall Singers' Folkways FS 3841). 8. Dunya Yusin. (See 3). 9. Samira Tewfik, Egyptian popular singer. (From 'Les Plus Grandes Artistes du Monde Arabe' EMI Records). 10. Unidentified radio evangelist, San Francisco, April 1980. Studios: RPM, New York. August 4 & 16, 1979. Blue Rock, New York. September 5, 1979. Eldorado, Los Angeles. During February & March 1980. Different Fur, San Francisco. During April 1980. Sigma, New York. During October 1980.