condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (minimal edges wear and corner creasing)

Charles O'Meara (1953-2018), who used the pseudonym C.W. Vrtacek for his solo work and later co-founded the band Forever Einstein as well as playing in Biota, recorded When Heaven Comes to Town in 1988 at his home studio in New Preston, Connecticut, on a Tascam 3440 four-track open-reel machine. Chris Cutler's ReR Megacorp in the UK pressed and distributed it; the original US sleeve credits Leisure Time Records as label and ReR as licensee.

Side A is fifteen minutes of brief acoustic miniatures for piano, sampler (Ensoniq Mirage DSK-8), ukulele and assorted percussion, sitting somewhere between Satie, Klimperei and tape-music meditation. Side B is given over entirely to the 26-minute title track, a sound collage built from field recordings collected at Philip's Diner in Woodbury, Connecticut, and Grand Central Station in New York, interleaved with synth washes and piano fragments. Mastered by Tim Young at CBS. Sleeve design Michael Gellatly. Reissued on CD on the Cuneiform Silent Heaven compilation in 1996.