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Anton Fier

Dreamspeed/Blind Light 1992-1994

(Tzadik, TZ 7609) (U.S.) (2-CD set)

Dreamspeed

  1. Dreamspeed (5:44)
  2. Being and Time (7:40)
  3. Emotional Smear (4:46)
  4. Clouds without Water (8:36)
  5. Time Function (5:33)
  6. A Vague Sense of Order (Bloody Miles Mix) (9:43)
  7. Never Come Morning (5:48)
  8. Dreamspeed (Realm of the Senseless Mix) (14:23)
  9. A Vague Sense of Order (6:03)
  10. Smoke and Mirrors (3:54)

All music by Anton Fier, Bill Laswell, and Phew, except track 3, by Anton Fier, Bill Laswell, Matt Stein, and Phew; and track 4, by Anton Fier, Bill Laswell, Matt Stein, and Kazu Makino

Anton Fier: drums, percussion, samples, loops, etc.
Bill Laswell: bass
Matt Stein: loops, samples
Bootsy Collins: guitars
Phew: voice, text

Buckethead: guitar (1, 2, 7, 8)
Kazu Makino: voice (1, 4)

Recorded by Oz Fritz, Matt Stein, and Bruce Calder at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, June-October 1992
Mixed by Anton Fier, Bill Laswell (8), Matt Stein, and Bruce Calder
Mix engineers: Matt Stein, Bruce Calder, Oz Fritz, and Wes Naperstek

Tracks 1-9 originally released as Dreamspeed in 1993 by the Avant label (track 10 released here for the first time)

Blind Light

  1. The Absence of Time/Djeema el fna (11:17)
  2. Blind Light (11:28)
  3. Our Completion (5:59)
  4. Midnight (11:14)
  5. The Nostalgic Ache (6:36)
  6. Clairvoyance of Self (Seeing Through) (6:44)
  7. Our Completion (Ancient Evenings Mix) (10:25)
  8. Bait and Switch (5:35)

All music by by Anton Fier, Bill Laswell, and Phew

Anton Fier: drums, percussion, samples, loops, etc.
Bill Laswell: bass
Nicky Skopelitis: 6- and 12-string electric guitars
Knox Chandler: guitars
Aiyb Dieng: percussion
Lori Carson: wordless vocals
Lydia Kavanagh: wordless vocals
Phew: voice, text

Recorded by Bruce Calder, Oz Fritz, Rich Costey, and Gary Rindfuss at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, September-October 1993
Mixed by Bill Laswell (1, 2, 4, 7) and Anton Fier, January 1994
Mix engineers: Robert Musso and Bruce Calder

Tracks 1-7 originally released as Blind Light - The Absence of Time in 1994 by the Alida label (track 8 released here for the first time)

Photos by Jeffery Conn
Mastered by Scott Hull at Hit Factory Mastering, New York
Design by Chippy (Heung-Heung Chin)

Released in November 2003