℗ 2020 Room40
| Released | September 11, 2020 |
| Duration | 39m 08s |
| Record Label | Room 40 |
| Catalogue No. | RM4116 |
| Genre | Electronic (Ambient) |
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1.1
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You could touch him but he wasn’t there
David Toop |
3:05 | |||
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1.2
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Tiny human figurines made from sand. If you held these to your ear, you heard soft sweet music
David Toop |
3:01 | |||
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1.3
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A ghost travelling half a mile from its own shape
David Toop |
3:32 | |||
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1.4
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For believing (you were a strange beautiful unearthly creature from a faraway planet)
David Toop |
2:08 | |||
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1.5
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Smaller life spirits (that inhabit the joints)
David Toop |
3:48 | |||
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1.6
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She fell asleep somewhere outside the world
David Toop |
4:29 | |||
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1.7
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All I desire
David Toop |
2:14 | |||
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1.8
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When I first came here (I thought I’d never get used to the trains; now when it’s quiet I get nervous)
David Toop |
4:46 | |||
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1.9
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Always she seemed to be listening to some foray in the blood, that had no known setting
David Toop |
2:49 | |||
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1.10
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Some of them (to isolate themselves even further, beat their own ears until the tiny bones within were crushed)
David Toop |
3:35 | |||
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1.11
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Possibly it was only the coming of certain indefinable hours
David Toop |
1:54 | |||
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1.12
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Suddenly the world had dropped away
David Toop |
3:47 |
"The veteran British composer, improviser, author, and scholar assembles a dreamlike, mercurial album of sonic collage that doubles as a philosophical treatise on sound and memory."
- David Toop
Apparition Paintings is a new studio album from author, artist and former Flying Lizards member David Toop, featuring input from the likes of Elaine Mitchener, Keiko Yamamoto and Yifeat Ziv. Accompanying a new collection of personal archival recordings spanning over 40 years, it demonstrates that Toop’s creative resources are far from being exhausted.
"Apparition painting is the term used to describe a certain type of ancient Chinese painting of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In these works, often associated with Chan (Zen) teachings, the ink used to depict the subject was exceptionally pale, the background lacking in any detail. As Yukio Lippit has written: 'This combination results in remarkably self-dissembling images that somehow compromise their own visibility. Apparition painting appears to capture its subjects in mid-fade, as if managing to preserve only a dimly translucent afterimage of a bygone entity.'"
- David Toop
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Room 40 Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.46 -1.34 to -0.30 | -19.16 -27.82 to -15.41 | -16.44 -24.70 to -13.50 | 12 10 to 18 | |
| 1 | You could touch him but he wasn’t there | -0.31 | -16.09 | -13.5 | 11 |
| 2 | Tiny human figurines made from sand. If you held these to your ear, you heard soft sweet music | -0.30 | -15.41 | -13.8 | 11 |
| 3 | A ghost travelling half a mile from its own shape | -0.30 | -17.47 | -14.7 | 11 |
| 4 | For believing (you were a strange beautiful unearthly creature from a faraway planet) | -1.34 | -21.70 | -18.4 | 11 |
| 5 | Smaller life spirits (that inhabit the joints) | -0.33 | -27.82 | -24.7 | 18 |
| 6 | She fell asleep somewhere outside the world | -1.13 | -17.87 | -15.0 | 10 |
| 7 | All I desire | -0.30 | -15.93 | -13.5 | 11 |
| 8 | When I first came here (I thought I’d never get used to the trains; now when it’s quiet I get nervous) | -0.30 | -20.00 | -17.7 | 13 |
| 9 | Always she seemed to be listening to some foray in the blood, that had no known setting | -0.30 | -20.62 | -18.3 | 13 |
| 10 | Some of them (to isolate themselves even further, beat their own ears until the tiny bones within were crushed) | -0.30 | -19.74 | -16.5 | 13 |
| 11 | Possibly it was only the coming of certain indefinable hours | -0.31 | -19.05 | -16.4 | 11 |
| 12 | Suddenly the world had dropped away | -0.30 | -18.20 | -14.8 | 12 |