01. Contact


Burial: “Untitled”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois: “Organum: Alleluia V. Multifarie olim”

Peter Gabriel: “Trills”

Artie Shaw: “Nightmare”

Peter Gabriel: “Bassbowl”

Nine Inch Nails:  “Corona Radiata”

Nine Inch Nails: “The Mark Has Been Made”

The Dead Weather:  “60 Feet Tall”

Sinéad O’Connor:  “Hosanna Filo David”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois:  “Ecce annuntion vobis”


plus added sound effects and ambience



02.  Interview


Peter Gabriel:  “Passion” [alternate version]

Harold Budd/Hector Zazou: “And Then She Stepped Aside”

Burial:  “Forgive”

Count Basie:  “Blues and Sentimental”



03.  Institution


Robert Johnson:  “Phonograph Blues”

John Zorn: “Drifting 1”

Cocteau Twins:  “Otterley”

Marilyn Manson:  “Thaeter”

Esther Lee:  “Floatsome Driftwood”

Nine Inch Nails:  “The Frail”

Nine Inch Nails:  “Another Version of the Truth”

Nina Simone:  “Ne Me Quitte Pas”

Peter Gabriel:  “The Feeling Begins” [drum version]


plus added sound effects and ambience



04.  Information


Glen Gray and His Orchestra:  “Smoke Rings”

Massive Attack:  “Angel”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois: “Trope: Descendens ab etherei”


plus added sound effects and ambience



05.  Return


Thelonious Monk:  “Straight, No Chaser”

Marilyn Manson:  “Cryptorchid”

Radiohead:  “Like Spinning Plates”

Nine Inch Nails:  “Closer (Internal mix)”

Radiohead:  “Hunting Bears”



06.  Adrift


Krzysztof Penderecki:  “Emanationen for two string orchestras”

Harold Budd:  “Bell Tower”

Cocteau Twins / Harold Budd:  “Memory Gongs”

Lena Horne:  “Stormy Weather”

Duke Ellington:  “Chelsea Bridge”

The Cure:  “Plainsong”

Nine Inch Nails:  “11 Ghosts II”

This Mortal Coil:  “A Heart of Glass”



07.  Algiers


Sidney Bechet:  “I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say”

Peter Gabriel:  “Disturbed” [alternate version]

Cell:  “Mister Ayatih”

Billie Holiday:  “You Go to My Head”

This Mortal Coil:  “The Lacemaker”

The Cure:  “The Snakepit”

Danger Mouse / David Lynch:  “Dark Night of the Soul”

This Mortal Coil:  “Ivy and Neet”

Brownie McGhee:  “Rainy, Rainy Day”


plus added sound effects and ambience

track components for

The Fount

fount (n., late 16th century, from the word fountain)

a source of a desirable quality or commodity


font (n., from the Latin for spring, or fountain)

  1. 1. a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism

  2. 2. a reservoir for oil in an oil lamp

  3. 3. a fount



[source tracks are in order of their appearance on the track]


throughout the album are sound elements from the film angel heart (1987)

starring Mickey Rourke, Robert DeNiro, and Lisa Bonet


score: Trevor Jones — sound editing: Eddy Joseph

sound effects editing: William Trent — foley: Jean-Pierre Lelong

saxophones: Courtney Pine — soprano solos: Catherine Bott

08.  Bodies


Robert Johnson:  “Come On in My Kitchen”

Arvo Pärt:  “Orient & Occident”

Nine Inch Nails:  “The Beauty of Being Numb”

John Zorn:  “Nightscape”

Louis Armstrong:  “Basin Street Blues”

Peter Gabriel:  “Wall of Breath” [alternate version]

Cocteau Twins:  “Beatrix”

Jelly Roll Morton:  “Blue Blood Blues”

Nine Inch Nails:  “Gone, Still”

John Zorn:  “Voudoun”


plus added sound effects and ambience



09.  Bayou


Robert Johnson:  “Me and the Devil Blues”

Bukka White:  “Parchman Farm Blues”

Cocteau Twins / Harold Budd:  “Why Do You Love Me?”

The Dead Weather:  “So Far From Your Weapon”

The Dead Weather:  “Will There Be Enough Water?”


plus added sound effects and ambience



10.  Sanctuary


Bing Crosby:  “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”

Tommy Dorsey:  “Moonlight Over the Ganges”

Peter Gabriel:  “Lazarus Raised” [alternate version]

The Cure:  “A Reflection”

Krzysztof Penderecki:  “Canticum Canticorum Salomonis”

Krzysztof Penderecki:  “De Natura Sonoris No. 1”

Nine Inch Nails:  “The Persistence of Loss”



11.  Blood


Blind Willie Johnson:  “Dark was the Night (Cold was the Ground)”

LaVern Baker:  “Soul on Fire”

Portishead:  “Mysterons”

Peter Gabriel:  “Location Recording: Morocco”

Cocteau Twins/Harold Budd:  “Ooze Out and Away, Onehow”


plus added sound effects and ambience



12.  Hounds


Robert Johnson:  “Hellhound on My Trail”

Preservation Hall Jazz Band:  “Burgundy Street Blues”

Blind Willie Johnson:  “It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine”

Harold Budd:  “Bird Charmer”

Robert Johnson:  “Love in Vain”

Nick Drake:  “Horn”

Marilyn Manson:  “Untitled”

Portishead:  “Plastic”

Nine Inch Nails: “I’m Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally”

Radiohead:  “Trans-Atlantic Drawl”


plus added sound effects and ambience



13.  Souls


Jessica Lea Mayfield:  “I Can’t Lie to You, Love”

Jack Teagarden:  “Dame Blanche”

Krzysztof Penderecki:  “Anaklasis for strings & percussion”

The Flaming Lips:  “Gemini Syringes”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois:  “Hec dies”

David Bowie:  “Looking for Satellites”

Nine Inch Nails:  “Leaving Hope”

Peter Gabriel:  “The Feeling Begins” [extended alternate version]

John Zorn:  “Mirror Worlds”


plus added sound effects and ambience




14.  I Know Who I Am


Ensemble Sreteniye:  “Cherubic Hymn (Georgian chant)”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois:  “Organum: Gaude Maria virgo”

Mazzy Star:  “So Tonight That I Might See”

Peter Gabriel:  “With This Love” [alternate version]

Nina Simone:  “Wild is the Wind”

Nine Inch Nails:  “The Great Below”

Nine Inch Nails:  “2 Ghosts I”

Ensemble Gilles Binchois:  “Ecce annuntion vobis”


plus added sound effects and ambience