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
email: alanblack13@mac.com
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. a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism
2. a reservoir for oil in an oil lamp
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