All tracks recorded live in Milan, Montreal and Paris, 2002-2003, except "New Gods", recorded at The Game Room, Los Angeles. Additional recording at The Game Room and Rock River Sound, Los Angeles. Mixed at The Game Room.
Cover art : "Crucifixion", 1963-65.
Hubble Image : Spiral Galaxies NGC2207 and IC2163 (NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScl)).
Track 2, "Maarifa Street", contains a sample from "Fremd" (CD: Pole 1) by [a311802], Pias 1998, Betke Edition/BMG Music Publ. Germany.
Released in a 6-panel Digipak with Outer Card Slipcase
Total playing time: 61:41
℗&© 2005 Nyen Music
Manufactured in the E.U. (disc & digipak)
Made in France (slipcase)
Note the erroneous statement "Promotional Copy, Not For Sale" on the disc.
Explanatory note on the back of the digipak cover:
Beginning with three live concerts, each recorded in four instrumental layers, some performances (notably, trumpet) were kept intact, other layers were either re-performed or invented anew while some layers were migrated from one performance to another. Some completely new layers were made by cannibalizing parts from previous works and reshaping them. My hope is that by weaving together the spontaneity and imperfections of a live concert with the “detailing” of a studio recording, something distinctive results.
I almost subtitled this record “Improved Concerts” after Mati Klarwein’s “Improved Paintings” series: ordinary flea market paintings miraculously transformed by a virtuoso imagination, painting into and out of the original). But one track—which exists only as a stereo recording—has been left untouched: the "encore" at the end, ‘Open Secret (Milano)’.
