Derek Jarman - Blue

Label: Mute Records Ltd.
Catalog#: CD STUMM 49
Format: CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:08 Nov 1993
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Spoken Word, Experimental, Ambient
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:Soundtrack for the film "Blue". Written and directed by Derek Jarman.
Soundtrack composed by Simon Fisher Turner.
Track titles are not given in the booklet.


"Blue is by Derek Jarman, Simon Fisher Turner, Marvin Black, David Lewis, James Mackay.

Voices: John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton.

Musicians: John Balance, Gini Ball, Marvin Black, Peter Christopherson, Markus Dravius, Brian Eno, Tony Hinnigan, Danny Hyde, Jan Latham Koenig, Marden Hill & The King of Luxumbourg, Miranda Sex Garden, Momus, Vini Reilly, Kate St. John, Simon Fisher Turner, Richard Watson, Hugh Webb."


"For H.B. and All True Lovers."
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Tracklisting:

 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
User Reviews:
Alastis, Mar 31, 2006

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.

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