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1	The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs Composed By – John CageWords By [Finnegans Wake] – James Joyce	3:18
2	Only Composed By – Morton FeldmanWords By [Sonette An Orpheus Nr. Xxiii] – Rainer Maria Rilke	1:20
3	Von Der Freundlichkeit Der Welt Composed By – Hanns EislerWords By – Bertolt Brecht	2:00
4	Hô 1 & Hô 4 Composed By – Giacinto Scelsi	7:15
5	Lettre D'Epicure 1-4 Composed By – György Kurtág	2:42
6	Mnémosyne Composed By – Henri PousseurWords By – Friederich Hölderlin*	5:17
7	Hungry Child Composed By – Frederic RzewskiWords By – Langston Hughes	2:45
8	Experience No. 2 Composed By – John CageWords By – E. E. Cummings	3:36
9	Sephardic Songs: El Mundo Entero, Abre Tu Puerta, Bre Sarica, Que Hermoza	9:17
10	Un Jour Composed By – Henri PousseurWords By [Sur Le Qui-vive] – Michel Butor	3:19
11	Lustukru Composed By – Théodore Botrel	3:44
12	Wien Wien Nur Du Allein Composed By – Rudolf Sieczynski	1:30

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Ravenstein Gallery

Credits

• Percussion, Arranged By – Maxime Echardour (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11)
• Photography By – Michel Boermans
• Sound Designer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Diedrick De Cock
• Vocals, Concept By, Liner Notes – Marianne Pousseur

Notes

From the disc's liner notes, Marianne Pousseur writes:

"I like to listen to music in places that haven't been designed for it. I like when music mixes in with noise. Only came from a very personal desire to open the doors of my musical world to the concreteness of daily life, to tear down the fictional barriers between places and times of rehearsal and performance. Here I try to relate simple pieces to 'serious' works, sophisticated styles that are familiar to me with simple songs; I try to present them in unexpected places, familiar places that may enrich, impregnate these musical movements with all the fullness of their own lives - a school, a car in motion, the train station. The story this ensemble tells may not be the classical contents of the works featured here, but it is a fiction - different, less pure, contaminated, and open-ended on the world of that is around us, a world excluded from the sacred universe of music. Maybe it tells a contradictory idea of wonder and discomfort, of the necessity of an essential starting point: memory, journey, and an impossible quest for beauty and balance. Only is dedicated to Henri, Bianca, and Gabrielle whose invisible smiles accompany us."

Recording Locations in Brussels:

Community Primary School No. 7 in Molenbeek (Tracks 3, 6, 7 & 11)
Soignes Forest (Tracks 2 & 8)
Automatic Luggage Locker Room at Brussels Central Train Station (Track 9)
Ravenstein Gallery (Track 12)
Notre Dame de la Chapelle Church (Tracks 4, 5 & 10)
Car in the Streets of Jette (Track 1)

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