Psychic TV
A Prayer For Derek Jarman
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Unavailable for almost 30 years in its own right, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman. Another demonstration of why Psychic TV were one of the most important groups in the world.
The titular track, 'Prayer For Derek', is intended as an invocationary prayer, based on Tibetan rituals; a collage of sounds including field recordings of the lulling waves running aground on the shingle beach opposite Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent alongside bird song, crying babies, and massed ritualised chants to aid the late film director in his after-life journeys.
Other tracks feature elongated drones, washes of dissonance, melancholic guitar chime, evocative piano scoring, Burroughs cut-ups, gothic chants, and familiar snarling dogs.
Format
Hype sticker states "A document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman"
"The Loops Of Mystical Union"
Theme for Home Movies a video journal by Derek Jarman.
"Elipse Of Flowers"
Theme for Home Movies a video journal by Derek Jarman.
"Mylar Breeze"
Themes for a short movie circa Sebastiane by Derek Jarman.
"Prayer For Derek"
Theme expressing personal reminiscence and prayers from 1969/1993 and beyond.
"Rites Of Reversal"
Tonal theme intended for a film by G. P-Orridge of Williams S. Burroughs for which Derek Jarman was the camera person.
Remastered at Jhopdi Studios, San Rafael, California in August 1993.
CD in matt digipak with 8-page fold-out booklet, with liner notes by Genesis P-Orridge (1997)
Release notes
Hype sticker states "A document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman" "The Loops Of Mystical Union" Theme for Home Movies a video journal by Derek Jarman. "Elipse Of Flowers" Theme for Home Movies a video journal by Derek Jarman. "Mylar Breeze" Themes for a short movie circa Sebastiane by Derek Jarman. "Prayer For Derek" Theme expressing personal reminiscence and prayers from 1969/1993 and beyond. "Rites Of Reversal" Tonal theme intended…
| 1 | The Loops Of Mystical Union | 17:55 | |
| 2 | Elipse Of Flowers | 10:58 | |
| 3 | Mylar Breeze (Parts 1 And 2) | 7:50 | |
| 4 | Mylar Breeze (Part 3) | 11:56 | |
| 5 | Prayer For Derek | 17:20 | |
| 6 | Rites Of Reversal | 7:39 |
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Artwork [Tray Collage], Co-producer (6), Liner Notes, Producer (1 to 5), Remastered By
- Larry Thrasher
- Co-producer (6), Liner Notes, Remastered By
- Abby Helasdottir
- Graphic Design
- Martin Bowes
- Mastered By
