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Meira Asher
Spears Into Hooks

Album BE 1999 on Crammed Discs label
Electronic and Rock (Rhythmic Noise, Industrial, Avant-garde)

Issued in 4-panel digipak with white tray and left slit-cut for 16-page booklet containing credits, lyrics and photos. Track durations not listed on the release. All pieces recorded and mixed at Alien Studios (Ljubljana, Slovenia) on PT 24, except 1 & 9 recorded at Milo Studios (London), 3: drums and bass recorded at Podewil (Berlin), 8: drums and bass recorded at Curve Studios (London), 6: Kocani Orkestar recorded at Studio Molière (Brussels), 1 & 3 mixed at Dada Studios (Brussels). All compositions published by Les Editions de la Bascule. Text of track 4 inspired by genesis 6 & 7 - voices of palestinian children describing the physical effect of various bullets shot by the israeli army, a woman giving a testimony about the shooting of her cousin, all in the occupied territories, taken from "intifada", a documentary by michel khleifi - testimony of holocaust survivor and eichmann's voice from "six million accusers", hed arzi records. Track 5 contains parts of johann strauss' waltz "spahren klange". [On digipack's tray] DIGIPAK ® Manufactured by Van de Steeg, Holland, under license from AGI, USA [On back cover] Manufactured in Austria [P] 1999 Crammed Discs [C] 1999 Crammed Discs "Spears bent into hook for the animals we become, to be hung in our numerous slaughterhouses."

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	Meira Asher voc, perc, syn, *1964 NL percussion, producer, programmed by, midi programming, synthesizer, emu 6400, mini moog, vocals, album by, arranged by, lyrics by, music by, composed by, lyrics by, original hebrew text
	Aldo Ivančić sampler, engineer, assistance in ljubljana, executive-producer, in ljubljana, noises, field recordings in ljubljana, programmed by, in ljubljana
	Kacho mixed by, at alien studios ljubljana, slovenia on pt 24, recorded by, at alien studios ljubljana, slovenia on pt 24
	Daniel Baruch noises, some of the samples created with, recorded by, drums & bass at podewil berlin
	Nati Seidenstadt noises, some of the samples created with
	2nd Gen , GB arranged by, music by
	Jeremy Avis voc, perc, lyrics by, lexical assistance
	Michael Weelen , performer, djembe samples source played by
	Daniel Meir , bass
	Ari Greenbaum , drums
	Tirza Biron , lyrics by, translation from hebrew to english
	Dr. Ibrahim Mohamad , lyrics by, translation to english
	Jani Golob b, arranged by, strings arrangement
	Igor Mitrović vc, cello
	Stane Demšar vc, cello
	Boris Krajnik , viola
	Franz Avsenek , viola
	Karel Žužek , violin
	Monika Skalar , violin
	Koçani Orkestar , *2006 arranged by, music by
	Daniel Avis , voice, child's voice
	Ronen Kujikaro , drums
	Uri Frost eg, g, guitar
	Annalisa Bernardi , lyrics by, translation from hebrew to italian

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