ELLIOTT SHARP
NOTS
1/ Happy Chappie Polka (Sharp) 1.37
2/ TMI (Sharp) 3.08
3/ Obvious (Sharp) 4.24
4/ The Free World (Sharp) 2.33
5/ Escape Clause (Sharp) 3.33
6/ Carbon (Sharp) 3.26
7/ Surdification (E#,Laswell,Miller,Noyes) 0.45
8/ Loisaida (Sharp) 2.05
9/ Transient (Sharp) 5.41
10/ Irreversibility (Sharp) 2.36
11/ Just Like Here (Sharp) 3.11
12/ Filter (E#,Miller,Laswell,Noyes) 4.22
13/ Sample/Hold (Sharp) 5.33
14/ HM3 (Sharp) 4.00
15/ SP (Sharp) 0.44
16/ T (Sharp) 2.18
17/ LOD (E#,Brown,Diaz,Linton) 2.50
18/ SP(2)12/8 (Sharp) 5.33
19/ WB? (Sharp) 1.57
20/ FSFSF (Sharp) 2.00
Tracks 1-4 recorded by Ranfy Hui at Big Apple, May 21, 1980
Track 5 recorded and mixed by Al Fierstein at Sorceror Sound, New York,
December 12, 1980
Tracks 6-12 recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at OAO Studio, Brooklyn,
New York, July 23-24 and October 12-13, 1981
Track 13 live K7 recordings at A7 Club, CBGB, November 8, 1981-May 25, 1982
Tracks 14-20 recorded and mixed at Plaza Sound, December 9, 1982 by
Don Hunenberg
Tracks 1-4 mxed by Doug Epstein at Mediasound October 13, 1980
Produced by Elliott Sharp
Tracks 1-4 co-produced by Mark Kamins
E#: voice (1,5,6,10,15,17,18), tenor sax (1,3,8), guitar (1,5,7,12,16,17), bass (1,4,5,6,
8,9,10,13), guitars (2,3,9,13), soprano sax (2,12,13,16), fretless guitars (4), alto sax
(4), bass clarinet (4,9,10,13,19), fretless guitar (6,11,14,15,18,20), razor (13); Mark
Miller: drums (1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13), percussion (3,8), voice (7); Bill Laswell: bass
(2,3,7,11,12); Philip Wilson : drums (2,3,4); Art Baron: trombone (2,3,6,9,10,11); Olu
Dara: cornet (6,10,11); Diana Meckley: percussion processing (6,9); Charles K.
Noyes: percussion (7,11,12); Michael Brown: bass (13,14,15,16,18,19,20), voice
(15,18,19,20), guitar (17); Al Diaz: percussion (13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20); Robert
Previte, Scott Jarvis & Paul Burwell: drums (13); David Linton: drums (13,14,15,16,
17,18,19,20); Gwain Gillespie & Neal White : percussion (13); Wayne Horvitz: synth
(13); Chris Vine & Felipe Orrego: guitar (13); Jeanette Riedel: violin (13); Richard
Edson: trumpet (13); Philip Johnston: soprano sax (13); David Sacks: trombone (13).
1982 - Glass Records (UK), LP 020 (Vinyl)
1992 - Atonal Records (Germany), ACD 3011 (CD)
Note: Tracks 13-20 were not featured on the original Glass Records release.