Derek Jarman - Blue

Label:

Mute Records Ltd.

Catalog#:

CDSTUMM 49

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

08 Nov 1993

Genre:

Electronic, Non-Music, Stage & Screen

Style:

Soundtrack, Spoken Word, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklist

		Blue (Parts 1-5) (7:23)
1a		Blue Gong
1b		Open Your Eyes
1c		Delphinium Days
1d		Roaring Water
1e		Love Fades
		Blue (Parts 6-12) (11:53)
2a		Left Right
2b		Back And Forth
2c		I’m Home
2d		Sweats In The Night
2e		Consecrate
2f		Gautamla Gongs
2g		Walk Away
		Blue (Parts 13-18) (7:37)
3a		Triennale
		Written-By, Performer - Brian Eno
3b		Holborn Tube
3c		Waiting Room
3d		Tangible Blue
3e		Hell On Earth
3f		Scheherazade
		Performer - Jan Latham Koenig Written-By - Szymanowski*
		Blue (Parts 19-24) (12:04)
4a		Marco Polo
4b		Scheherazade
		Performer - Jan Latham Koenig Written-By - Szymanowski*
4c		Summertime
		Music By - King Of Luxembourg, The , Marden Hill
4d		White Blue
4e		St Rita
4f		Hell Hounds
		Blue (Parts 25-29) (9:26)
5a		Blueness
5b		Euthanasia
5c		Blue Movie
5d		Disco Hospital
		Written-By, Performer - Coil , Danny Hyde
5e		Timeless Ocean
		Blue (Parts 30-35) (12:00)
6a		Kiss Me Again
6b		S&M
6c		Muff Diving Size Queen
		Vocals - Miranda Sex Garden
6d		Lesbian Man
		Vocals - Momus
6e		February
6f		Pill Song
		Blue (Parts 36-41) (13:07)
7a		Taj Mahal
7b		Tower Block
7c		Fermina
		Written-By, Performer - Vini Reilly
7d		1st Gnossiennes
		Composed By - Erik Satie Performer - Jan Latham Koenig
7e		Sparks Through Stubble
7f		Last Of Gongs

Credits

Composed By - Simon Fisher Turner
Engineer [Music Recording] - Markus Dravius*
Mixed By [Re-recording] - Paul Hamblin
Performer [Musician] - Brian Eno , Danny Hyde , Gini Ball , Hugh Webb , James Mackay , Jan Latham Koenig , John Balance , Kate St. John , Marden Hill , Markus Dravius* , Marvin Black , Miranda Sex Garden , Momus , Peter Christopherson , Richard Watson , Simon Fisher Turner , Tony Hinnigan , Vini Reilly
Voice - Derek Jarman , John Quentin , Nigel Terry , Tilda Swinton
Written-By - Derek Jarman

Notes

"Blue" a film by Derek Jarman
Blue: Derek Jarman, Simon Fisher Turner, Marvin Black, David Lewis, James Mackay

"For H.B. and All True Lovers"

Track titles are not given in the booklet
Barcode on sticker: 5 016025 610495
CD mastered by Nimbus
Made in Great Britain [on disc]

Issued in a blue opaque jewel case, with a sticker on front (Blue A Film By Derek Jarman), a sticker on back printed with cat # and barcode and Blue Derek Jarman CDSTUMM 49 printed on jewel case spine.

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Review by Alastis Mar 31, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

This is a curious, but also frightening stuff. Derek Jarman was an underground filmmaker who created many memorable, but weird movies ("Caravaggio" and "Angelic Conversation" are just a few examples). "Blue" is his monologue on the subject of death and mortality. The cause is real - in the early 90s he contracted AIDS and started to lose his vision slowly, hence the name of the record and the movie (which, in itself, is nothing but a blue screen and music playing in the background).
There were a number of people involved in the creation of this album, including members of Coil (who were frequent Jarman collaborators), Brian Eno, Miranda Sex Garden and many others. Not an easy listening by any chance, but an unusual item nonethless.