This is an album inspired by the quest for something "other"; through art or the spiritual, through peak experiences or paranormal investigations, in the realms of imagination or at large in the world; encounters with the unknown by chance or design.

 

Recorded 12/16 thru 12/19/01 at Phantom Airship 8, Portland OR, mostly between dusk and dawn.

All sounds composed and performed by Greg Segal, except "Alone": poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Featured instruments: bowed device; 12-string acoustic/7-string electric/6-string fretted and fretless electric guitars; Appalachian dulcimer; snare drum, floor tom, cymbal; African slit drum; toy xylophone, tambourine and assorted found percussion; vocals; and more effects than should be reasonably allowed by law.

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Tracks:

1. Alone (1:21)

vocal, bowed device, floor tom, cymbal

2. Looking For Paradise (7:54)

bowed device, vocal, 7-string electric, 12-string acoustic

3. Nad (2:16)

vocals

4. Sahara, 1909 (7:29)

floor tom, snare, cymbal, 7-string

5. Congruence Asserts Its Presence (1:08)

7-string

6. Madstone (1:49)

Appalachian dulcimer

7. Returns (5:04)

7-string (live to tape)

8. Snallygaster (3:36)

7-string

9. The Deros Discover King Solomon's Mines (2:07)

assorted found percussion, toy xylophone, African slit drum, floor tom

10. Sanctuary (2:06)

12-string acoustic

11. The India-Appalachia Railway (7:22)

Appalachian dulcimer, bowed device, floor tom, snare, tambourine

12. Was It Childhood (2:44)

toy xylophone

13. The Bad Ass Ride (2:22)

7-string, snare, floor tom, cymbal

14. Around The Healing Spring (2:01)

Appalachian dulcimer, 7-string

15. Bhoga (1:52)

guitar

16. The Backroads of Time (4:21)

found percussion

17. What Once Was Is (6:15)

7-string

18. Of Brief Stays (1:31)

vocals

19. Wednesday, 10 P.M. (11:47)

fretless guitar, 7-string

20. Paradise Is Where You Find It (2:07)

12-string acoustic, 7-string, bowed device, slide guitar

 

 

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