Album: Electronic Chuch Muzik
Artist: Ant-Bee
2011 Barking Moondog Records
CD: BMR1

Produced and arranged by Billy James
Recorded at Electric Yak Studios (North Carolina), Cape Fear Studios (North Carolina), Banana Moon Observatory, Peter Banks Studio (UK)
Design: Cal Schenkel


Ant-Bee (Billy James): glissando guitar (1, 21), percussion (1-6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21), vibes (4, 13, 14, 20, 21), cuica (4), vocals (2, 8, 15), keys (2, 14), tape manipulations (3, 4, 10, 13-15, 17, 20), washboard (6), harp (6, 14), Mellotron (8, 11, 14, 20), violin (8), butter-flye-flap (8), choral (re)constructions (10, 14, 17), choir (12), war machine (17), bess (17)
Gilli Smyth: vocals (1, 5, 17, 21)
Bunk Gardner: flute (1), saxes (2-4, 20)
Michael Bruce: guitars (2), bass (2), sitar (2)
Rod Martin: trumpet (2)
Daevid Allen: vocals (3, 21)
Don Preston: keys (3, 4), Moog (3, 20), electronics (3), music concrete (3)
Buzz Gardner: trumpet (3)
Cymbaline: vocals (3, 22)
Motorhead: snorks (4)
Jimmy Carl Black: vocals (4)
Peter Banks: guitars (5, 9)
Zoot Horn Rollo: guitar (6)
Rockette Morton: bass (6)
Michael Bruce: vocal (7), guitars (8), bass (8), keys (8)
George Scala: recorder (8)
Mike Logiovino: bass (9)
Alessandro Pizzin: keys
Cor Gout: vocals (10)
Jan Akkerman: guitar (11)
Artemiy Artemiev: keys (12)
Peter Frohmader: keys (13), electronics (13), composition construction (13)
Bruce Cameron: guitars (15), bass (15), sitars (15)
Groucho Marx: vocals (16)
Napoleon Murphy Brock: lead vocal (20)
Moogy Klingman: keys (20)
ZAD McGough: backing vocals (20)
Jack Dougherty: pedal steel (20)


Tracks:
1. "Birth" (2:10) [Smyth/James]
2. "Living" (3:55) [Cooper/Buxton/Bruce/Dunaway/Smith]
3. "The Language of the Body" (5:16) [Allen/James]
4. "Eye of Agamoto" (4:48) [Preston]
5. "The Guff (Hall of Souls)" (1:18) [Smyth/Banks/James]
6. "Mallard Flies Towards Heaven" (3:10) [Harkleroad]
7. "ANT-BEE's Sunday Supper" (0:29)
8. "Flutter-Bye Butter-Flye" (3:33) [Bruce/James]
9. "Endless Journey" (6:02) [Banks]
10. "The Light" (1:27) [Pizzin/James]
11. "Mannah" (5:35) [Akkerman]
12. "Psalm 23" (1:11)
13. "Hallelujah" (2:57) [Frohmader/James]
14. "The Wrath - Part One" (3:00) [James]
15. "Secrets of the Dead" (3:48) [Cameron/James]
16. "Pennies from Heaven" (0:48) [Burke/Johnston]
17. "The Wrath - Part Two (Baptism Through Fire)" (3:11) [James]
18. "The Lords Prayer" (1:05)
19. "Angels" (0:26)
20. "Don't You Ever Learn?" (4:37) [Rundgren]
21. "Re-Birth" (4:51) [Smyth/James]
22. "Final Benediction" (0:27)


Notes: Made over several years (Banks' parts were recorded some years before the release date), this is the latest album from Ant-Bee, a.k.a. Billy James. James co-wrote Banks' autobiography. Other notable guests include Daevid Allen and Gilly Smyth from Gong, and Jan Akkerman (ex-Focus, worked with Peter Banks). (HP, 22 Mar 11)

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