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L

Holy Letters

(VHF, vhf#84) (U.S.) (CD)

  1. Cold Was the Ground (4:43)
  2. Blues Trip #1 (5:00)
  3. Blues Trip #2 (2:15)
  4. Blues Trip #3 (6:39)
  5. Utusimi (3:31)
  6. Holy Letter (9:27)
  7. Benares Blue (3:15)
  8. Blues Trip #4 (1:05)
  9. Troll (7:46)
  10. Blues Trip #5 (4:02)
  11. Kiev (5:40)
  12. Azrini (2:25)
  13. Harvest (5:04)
  14. Troll (Alternate) (7:39)

All tracks composed and arranged by L except (1), composed by Blind Willie Johnson and arranged by L

L (Hiroyuki Usui): 6-string guitar (2, 5, 6, 8, 10), 12-string guitar (4, 7, 9, 11, 14), bottleneck guitar (1), prepared guitar (3), bass guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), vibes (1, 2, 6, 7), drums (2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14), assorted percussion (3, 9, 10, 11, 14), tam-tam (3, 4), organ (5, 7, 10), harmonium (6), didjeridu (4, 5)

Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar (9)
Masaaki Motoyama: cello (6)

Engineered and produced by L
Cover design and photos by J. and H
Includes liner notes by Hiroyuki Usui and Ben Chasny in English and Japanese
Translations by Alan Cummings

Released in November 2004
Tracks 1-13 originally released in 1992 (Holy Castle, CCD-21)