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1.
Theme from The Rotters' Club 02:49
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2.
Destination Moon 07:21
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3.
Une Courte Promenade à Bicyclette 01:33
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4.
Tower Hill 02:53
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5.
Fires Rise and Die 05:29
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6.
Three Views of Cicely 04:54
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7.
9th & 13th 16:37
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8.
Alone With Shirley 01:39
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9.
Benjamin in Paradise 03:03
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10.
Somniloquy 02:54
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about

In 2002, after Louis Philippe, Danny Manners and I had presented an evening of words and music at the Maroquinerie theatre in Paris, we were approached by Bertrand Burgalat of Tricatel Records to record an album.

The centrepiece of the album was my short story 9th & 13th, for which Danny had composed piano accompaniment. The rest consisted of readings from my novels, combined with instrumental tracks written by Louis and Danny.

We drew mainly on my novels The Rotters’ Club (which was then newly published) and The House of Sleep. Since another of my books, What a Carve Up!, had partly been inspired by a Yuri Gagarin-themed song of Louis’s, we also decided to include his other tribute to the famous cosmonaut, Destination Moon.

On Three Views of Cicely the character roles are taken by Louis, Danny and me, with guest artiste Esther Freud providing the voice of Cicely herself. The child’s voice at the end of Fires Rise and Die is Camille Auclair’s.

Alone With Shirley (Allein mit Shirley) is the title of What a Carve Up! in its German translation.

credits

released July 3, 2002

Jonathan Coe: speaking voice
Louis Philippe: vocals, keyboards, guitar, speaking voice (6)
Danny Manners: piano, bass, double bass, melodica, speaking voice
Camille Auclair: speaking voice (5)
Esther Freud: speaking voice (6)
and
Andy Lymn (drums)
Pete Whyman (flute, saxophone)
Dave Gregory (electric guitar)
Phil Hopkins (vibraphone)
George Hadjineophytou (mandola)
The Covent Garden String Quartet, les by Abigail Trundle, cello.

Recorded and mixed by Richard Preston at the Sound Suite, Camden, and Snake Ranch, Chelsea, and by Ken Brake at Fag Studio, Primrose Hill.
Cover photograph: Marc Werner

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