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Eight Ghosts
1	49	3:38
2	38	2:05
3	25	3:35
4	58	1:18
5	39 (Marilyn Monroe)	5:26
6	21	2:21
7	28	2:49
8	28	1:52
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9	The Dream Of The Other Dreamers Lyrics By [Text] – Whitman*	7:24
The Plague
10	I: Johnny Boccaccio Reports On The Plague	2:33
11	Song: "The Doctor's Art"	3:21
12	Revelation	1:28
13	II: The Persecution Of The Jews	2:35
14	III: The Song Of The Flagellants	3:10
15	IV: The Bonfires Of Clement VI	3:25
16	V: Dance Music	3:02
17	VI: Madrigals	3:02
18	VII: Chemical Pollution	3:01
19	VIII: The Plague Spreads	5:29
20	IX: The Canticle Of Habakkuk	3:30
21	X: Hamburger Poem	2:10
22	XI: The Causes Of The Plague, With "Death Of The Rats"	5:08

Credits

• Art Direction – Brian Brandt
• Bass Guitar, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Synthesizer [Korg 800] – Daryl Runswick (tracks: 10 to 22)
• Bass Vocals – Terry Edwards
• Drums – John Marshall (tracks: 10 to 22)
• Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Synthesizer [Korg 800] – Neely Bruce (tracks: 10 to 22)
• Engineer, Mixed By – John Whiting
• Executive Producer – Brian Brandt, Neely Bruce
• Guitar [Rhythm] – Ray Russell (tracks: 10 to 22)
• Liner Notes [Translations] – Brigitte Bley-Swinston, Dominique Jullien
• Lyrics By [Text] – Boccaccio* (tracks: 10 to 22), McClure* (tracks: 1 to 8), Bruce* (tracks: 10 to 22)
• Mastered By – Mikhail Liberman
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Linda Hirst (tracks: 10 to 22), Meriel Dickinson (tracks: 1 to 9)
• Music By – Neely Bruce
• Painting [Cover Painting] – Marion Arpell
• Photography By [Electric Phoenix] – Steve Sherman*
• Photography By [Neely Bruce] – Brian Brandt
• Producer – Terry Edwards
• Soprano Vocals – Judith Rees
• Tenor Vocals – Daryl Runswick
• Typography [Typesetting] – Linda Snider
• Vocals – Electric Phoenix

Notes

Eight Ghosts
The Dream Of The Other Dreamers
The Plague (1983-4) a commentary on the work of the Fourth Horseman

Recorded at: October Sound, London
Digital mastering: LRP Productions, NY
Recording dates: Eight Ghosts & The Dream on July 22 and 24-27, 1989. The backing tape for The Plague was recorded January 4-7, 16, 21 and February 1 & 7, 1984. The parts for the lead voices were recorded on March 22, 1985.

The Plague is dedicated to the Electric Phoenix; Eight Ghosts is dedicated to Mary Jane and the EPs; The Dream is dedicated to Sibyl Baird Dearing, who introduced me to the poetry of Walt Whitman.

A lecture on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by William Burroughs has had a profound, though somewhat indirect, influence on the entire project.

Texts: Eight Ghosts is taken from Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure, ©1964 by Michael McClure, used by permission.
The translations of the four poems from the The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is by Richard Aldington, ©1957, 1985. Used by permission.
Excerpt from The Jerusalem Bible, ©1966 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Used by permission.
The translation of Death of the Rats by Shih Tao-Nan is in the public domain. It is taken from Plague: An Ancient Disease in the Twentieth Century, by Charles T. Gregg, University of New Mexico Press, ©1985 by Charles T. Gregg.
The second verse of The Bubonic Plague Song is used by permission of the poet, Tony Connor
All other materials in the libretto of The Plague are the work of the composer, or in the public domain. All original text by the composer, ©1991 by Neely Bruce.

Special thanks to Tim, Shep, Phyllis and Mary Jane