''And What Have You Done with My Body, God?'' is a 4 CD collection of unreleased tracks, demos and scrapped masters by
Art of Noise
Art of Noise (also the Art of Noise) were a British avant-garde synth-rock group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and ...
. It also features the complete cassette versions of three EPs (''
Into Battle with the Art of Noise'', ''
That Was Close'', and ''
The Tortoise and the Hare
"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in w ...
'') for the first time on CD.
The project was conceived, researched and compiled by music journalist
Ian Peel, who also wrote the box set's accompanying 36-page book, which featured new interviews with all of the original members.
Track listing
All songs written by
Anne Dudley
Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre ...
,
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician. His influence on pop and electronic music in the 1980s was such that he has been called "the man who invented the eighties".
Horn took up the bass guitar at an ...
,
J. J. Jeczalik,
Gary Langan
Gary Michael Langan (born 19 April 1956) is an English engineer, record producer, mixer and musician.
Biography
Langan's career started at age 18 when he worked as an assistant engineer at Sarm East Studios, learning the craft from Gary Lyons ...
, and
Paul Morley
Paul Robert Morley (born 26 March 1957) is a British music journalist. He wrote for the ''New Musical Express'' from 1977 to 1983, and has since written for a wide range of publications and written his own books. He was a co-founder of the reco ...
.
Disc 1: ''The Very Start of Noise''
#
Beat Box (One Made Earlier)
:18#Once Upon a Lime
:21#War (Demo 2)
:27#
Close to the Edge
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:19#Confession
:02#
Moments in Love :52#Sign of Relief
:27#Who's Afraid of Scale?
:36#So What Happens Now? (take two)
:23#The Subject Has Moved Left
:43#It's not fair
:27#Close to the Edge (Ruff Mix)
:54#A Time for Fear (Who's Afraid)
:32#Moments in Bed
:11#Hands Off Love
:55
Disc 2: ''Found Sounds & Field Trips''
#Moments in Love (12" B-side idea)
:10#Tears Out of a Stone
:56#Samba #2
:39#The Chain of Chance
:36#
Fairlight-in-the-Being
:37#Diversions 3
:53#Close (To Being Compiled)
:47#Diversions 5
:46#Damn It All!
:42#Structure
:13#The Angel Reel: Hymn 1 (take 2)
:36#The Angel Reel: Hymn 3
:20#The Angel Reel: Fairground
:43#And What Have You Done with My Body, God?
:40#Klimax
:48#Who Knew?
:36
Disc 3: ''Who's Afraid of...Goodbye''
#War (Demo 4)
:39#The Focus of Satisfaction
1:01#Moments in Love (7" master rejected)
:44#It Stopped
:27#The Uncertainty of Syrup
:21#The Long Hello
:34#The Vacuum Devine
:47#The Ambassadors Reel: Beat Box
:54#The Ambassadors Reel: Medley
0:56#The Ambassadors Reel: Oobly
:20#Goodbye Art of Noise
:37#Moments in Love (incomplete)
:06
Disc 4: ''Extended Play''
Into Battle with the Art of Noise:
#Battle
:27#Beat Box
:48#The Army Now
:02#Donna
:44#Moments in Love
:10#Bright Noise
:05#Flesh in Armour
:24#Comes and Goes
:19#Moment in Love
:27That Was Close:
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Diversion Eight / Diversion Two / Closest / Close-Up / Close (To the Edit) / Closed 0:44/li>
The Tortoise and the Hare:
#Moments in Love (From Battle To Beaten) 4:21/li>
#Love Beat :15#In Case We Sneezed :31Besides Close:
#A Time to Hear (Who's Listening) :31/li>
#(Do) Donna (Do) :12#Battle Outtakes :25
References
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Art of Noise albums
ZTT Records compilation albums
2006 compilation albums