''Tales of the Inexpressible'' is Shpongle's second album, released in 2001.

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and Raja Ram hone and expand the style introduced on their debut album, ''

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''. Raja Ram plays Spanish and East Asian instruments along with the flute, and Simon Posford plays

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as well as synthesizing and sampling. The song "Room 23" appears on the back cover of the album with the name "Room 2ॐ", the character "ॐ" being the Om, the sacred eternal sound in Hinduism. A remastered, super-deluxe edition of ''Tales of the Inexpressible'' was released on 26 February 2018.

Track listing

Credits

* Raja Ram:

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, vocals, illustrations, production *

: programming, guitar,

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s, semi-acoustic bass, production * Michele Adamson: vocals, backing vocals * Abigail Gorton: vocals * Harry Escot: cello, acoustic bass * Pete Callard:

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* Kevin Metcalfe:

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ing at The Soundmasters

Samples and allusions

* The name of the song ''Dorset Perception'' alludes to Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. Dorset is the location of Posford's studio, the ''Hallucinogen Sound Labs''. * The Shpongle song ''A New Way to Say 'Hooray! contains a sample of a lecture by Terence McKenna, in which he references the

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song '' The Gnome'' (from the 1967 '' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' album). The gnomes are actually creatures which Terence describes meeting over and over on many of his

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related trance experiences. * ''A New Way to Say 'Hooray! contains vocal and choir samples from the sample CD "Heart of Africa Volume 2" by Spectrasonics. * The sample: "This is, er, no offense but you are a robot, aren't you?" used in ''Shpongleyes'' is taken from the classic science fiction movie Forbidden Planet. *The dinosaur sounds sample sounds heard in ''Shpongleyes'' are taken from the film Jurassic Park: The Lost World. * The male vocals on ''Around the World in a Tea Daze'' after 6:45 are a sample from a famous Turkish song titled " Dönülmez Akşamın Ufkundayız" by Turkish Pop singer Tarkan (singer). The lyrics are originally from a poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. The sample is taken from the sample CD "Voices Of Istanbul" by Q Up Arts. * ''My Head Feels Like a Frisbee'' contains merengue horns samples from the sample CD "Festa Latina" by Best Service. * Towards the end of the track ''My Head Feels Like a Frisbee'', a sample of Ella Fitzgerald singing ''How High the Moon'' can be heard. The sample is sped up. * The end of ''Star Shpongled Banner'' uses a vocal part of the song "Dança do Vampiro" (Vampire's Dance), by the Brazilian axé music group

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References

External links

Official Shpongle Website
{{Authority control 2001 albums Shpongle albums