scatter 04:CD Giganti Reptilicus Destructo Beam

The XIII Ghosts
Alex Ward, clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals, piano; Switch, electronics, vocals
with:
Andru Clare, guitar, spinning tops, mangled tendons (tracks 8, 19, 30, 42); Nick Couldry,
piano, keyboards (tracks 5, 10, 11, 20, 25, 28, 33, 44);
Jim Denley, flute, bass flute, piccolo, alto saxophone, slute (tracks 2, 7, 14, 18, 21, 23, 29, 37, 38, 39);
Tim Hill, reeds, percussion,
junk (tracks 9, 16, 27, 45); Evan Thomas, guitar (tracks 4, 13, 24, 35, 36, 40); Pat Thomas, piano and
electronics (tracks 3, 6, 15, 17, 22, 26, 31, 34, 41).
Part One: He spake and caterpiller came
- Tonight we will make your ears turn blood red (01.25)
- Prayers for mallow (00.28)
- Despised curmudgeon (00.50)
- Tormented spectres (02.23)
- Tentacle Manor (03.52)
- The 13 ghosts chased through zoo at night (01.42)
- The mineral foe (01.23)
- Walking on lobsters (01.09)
- The Liming (02.35)
- Skunk meat (00.44)
- Go away kid, you're botherin' me (00.32)
- The Chairman breaks it down (00.29)
- Cup cakes and chili sauce (00.53)
- The woeful gila monster of Cuyahoga Falls, OH (02.10)
- Why they call Switch 'The Doctor' (00.51)
- To hunt with the stoat (04.10)
- Feldmatic (01.08)
- The dumb cluck (01.13)
- Planet Toe-Tag, one million years BC (02.22)
- The honeyflubber (01.46)
- Satsumas (00.11)
- Dub muffin (01.17)
- The golden mole (03.01)
- Doin' it English style (02.09)
Part Two: The last castrato
- Benjamin Hervey's grating lack of social graces (00.19)
- Please, so long, T__ (03.39)
- Owls and squirrels (07.11)
- The escape of garbage (02.35)
- The lamb mint sauce dub (01.26)
- Bald man fuck wid him dick (01.47)
- Spectral moon rock (00.49)
- Carl sputs his wad (00.11)
- The Anne Boleyn thimble (05.41)
- Gill against gill (00.25)
- Nasty phantom (01.22)
- Black diamonds (02.53)
- Greedy motorcyclist has a sidecar full of chips (00.59)
- Pipsqueak (00.12)
- Knucklepopper (02.01)
- Tirez sur le saxophoniste (00.51)
- Human louse/Using nah Korgs (01.55)
- Uncut black toast (00.59)
- David Sanborn (00.18)
- Antonicca (01.23)
- Helen Williams, a real lady (03.08)
Conceived, produced and edited by Alex Ward and Switch; recorded at Switchco Mobil, Padua;
mixed and edited at Switchco Mobil, Mexico City.
Artwork (front cover reproduced above) by Andru Clare.
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