Complete (box set)

Infobox Album | Name = Complete
Type = box
Artist = News from Babel


Released = 2006
Recorded = 1983–1986
Genre = Avant-progressive rock
Length = 1:10:35
Label = Recommended (UK)
Producer = News from Babel
Reviews =
Last album = "Letters Home"
(1986)
This album = "Complete"
(2006)
Next album = –

"Complete" is a three-CD box set by English avant-garde rock group News from Babel. It contains remastered and repackaged releases of the two News from Babel albums, "Work Resumed on the Tower" (1984) and "Letters Home" (1986), plus an illustrated CD of their 7" single, "Contraries" (1984). The first album comprises the two song-suites "Sirens and Silences" and "Work Resumed on the Tower", while the second album contains the "Letters Home" song-suite. The box set also contains a book of song texts and artwork.

Disc 1: Work Resumed on the Tower

Contains all the tracks from the News from Babel LP, "Work Resumed on the Tower" (1984).
*Sirens and Silences
*#"Odysseus" (Cutler, Cooper) – 2:56
*#"Auschwitz/Babel" (Cutler, Cooper) – 4:07
*#"Klein's Bottle" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:17
*#"Black Gold" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:09
*#"Devils" (Cutler, Cooper) – 1:16
*#"Dry Leaf" (Cutler, Cooper) – 2:51
*Work Resumed on the Tower
*#"Arcades (of Glass)" (Cutler, Cooper) – 7:44
*#"Victory" (Cutler, Cooper) – 5:19
*#"Anno Mirabilis" (Cutler, Cooper) – 4:08

News from Babel

*Lindsay Cooper – bassoon, sopranino and alto saxophone, piano, other keyboards
*Chris Cutler – drums, electrics, percussion
*Zeena Parkins – harp, prepared and electric harps, accordion
*Dagmar Krause – singing

Guests

*Phil Minton – trumpet ("Victory", "Anno Mirabilis"), singing ("Anno Mirabilis")
*Georgie Born – bass guitar ("Black Gold")

Disc 2: Letters Home

Contains all the tracks from the News from Babel LP, "Letters Home" (1986).
#"Who Will Accuse?" (Cutler, Cooper) – 2:38
#"Heart of Stone (Megalopolis)" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:04
#"Banknote" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:19
#"Moss" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:58
#"Dragon at the Core" (Cutler, Cooper) – 4:39
#"Dark Matter" (Cutler, Cooper) – 4:20
#"Waited" (Cutler, Cooper) – 5:09
#"Fast Food" (Cutler, Cooper) – 3:13
#"Late Evening" (Cutler, Cooper) – 4:58

News from Babel

*Lindsay Cooper – bassoon, sopranino and alto saxophone, piano, other keyboards
*Chris Cutler – drums, electrics, percussion
*Zeena Parkins – harp, prepared and electric harps, accordion, ebo guitar

Guests

*Bill Gilonis – bass guitar, guitar
*Robert Wyatt – singing ("Who Will Accuse?", "Heart of Stone", "Moss", "Late Evening")
*Dagmar Krause – singing ("Fast Food", "Late Evening")
*Sally Potter – singing ("Banknote", "Dark Matter")
*Phil Minton – singing ("Dragon at the Core")

Disc 3: "Contraries"

Contains the News from Babel 7" single, "Contraries" (1984).
#"Contraries" (Cutler, Parkins) – 3:00

News from Babel

*Lindsay Cooper – bassoon, piano, horns, marimba
*Chris Cutler – marimba
*Zeena Parkins – harp, accordion
*Dagmar Krause – singing

External links

*amg | id = 10:axfixqurldae | label = Complete
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/parkins.htm Discography of Zeena Parkins] .