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Seamus Cater

The Three Things You Can Hear

(Annihaya Records, end 13) (Lebanon) (CD)

  1. Crabb 9807 (3:35)
  2. Fluorescent (5:08)
  3. Lunora (3:46)
  4. Pin Drop (0:31)
  5. Pretty Girls All in a Row (6:21)
  6. The Foreshift (7:53)
  7. Like These Very Walls (5:10)
  8. Smoking and Smiling (3:44)

All words by Seamus Cater except track 6, by Seamus Cater and Matthew Tate (opening verse by Tate)
All music by Seamus Cater except viola, clarinet, double bass, vibraphone, and rotating bass drum parts, written or improvised by their respective players

Seamus Cater: voice (1-3, 5-8), duet concertina (1-3, 5-8), Rhodes piano (6), overdubs of sandpaper and Wenge sticks (6)

The International Nothing (Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke): clarinets (2)
Koen Nutters: double bass (3)
Morten J. Olsen: rotating bass drum and vibraphone (3)
Johnny Chang: viola (5)
Han Jacobs: saw (7)

Recorded by Seamus Cater at Ausland, Berlin, September 24, 2014 (1, 2) and November 11, 2014 (5, 8); and at Pest House, Amsterdam, October 6, 2014 (3) and December 2014 (6, 7)
Mixed by Clare Gallagher
Mastered by Jeff Carey
Cover painting by Philipp Kremer
Design by Studio Safar s.a.l.

Released in January 2016
Numbered limited edition of 500