Product Overview
Expanded Edition of the long out of print Mount Wittenberg Orca LP, Dirty Projectors' critically acclaimed collaborative album with Icelandic legend Björk. The original seven-song collection was written to be performed unamplified in a small Manhattan bookstore called Housing Works inspired by a conversation between Dirty Projectors band leader David Longstreth and Björk about the small theaters in Italy where opera was born in the 1500s.
The band and Björk rehearsed for three days at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, and then recorded the songs as quickly and as live as possible, overdubbing only lead vocals and solos.The 2xLP Expanded Edition adds 13 bonus tracks of never-before-released material including the live Housing Works performance from 2009, early demos of Mount Wittenberg Orca and archival audio of the band and Bjork rehearsing the material.This is the definitive version of Mount Wittenberg Orca.
TRACK LISTING
| A-I | Ocean | 2:09 | |
| A-II | On And Ever Onward | 2:01 | |
| A-III | When The World Comes To An End | 3:08 | |
| A-IV | Beautiful Mother | 2:16 | |
| B-V | Sharing Orb | 2:48 | |
| B-VI | No Embrace | 4:13 | |
| B-VII | All We Are | 4:43 | |
| C-I | Intro (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 2:16 | |
| C-II | Ocean (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 1:14 | |
| C-III | On And Ever Onward (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 2:21 | |
| C-IV | When The World Comes To An End (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 2:27 | |
| C-V | Beautiful Mother (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 1:59 | |
| C-VI | Sharing Orb (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 2:25 | |
| C-VII | No Embrace (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 3:02 | |
| C-VIII | All We Are (Live From Housing Works, 2009) | 3:39 | |
| D-I | Wave Invocation (Inverness Demo I) | 1:16 | |
| D-II | Motherwhale Song (Inverness Demo II) | 2:11 | |
| D-III | Whale Watcher Song (Inverness Demo III) | 1:54 | |
| D-IV | Fugal Swim (Inverness Demo IV) | 2:02 | |
| D-V | First Duet (Inverness Demo V) | 2:13 | |
| D-VI | Migration (Unfinished Inverness Demo) | 1:13 | |
| D-VII | Jubilation (Inverness Demo VI) | 2:18 | |
| D-VIII | Benediction (Inverness Demo VII) | 2:32 | |
| D-IX | When The World Comes To An End (Freewrite) | 0:32 | |
| D-X | When The World Comes To An End (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough) | 2:46 | |
| D-XI | Beautiful Mother (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough) | 1:03 | |
| D-XII | On And Ever Onward (Full Rehearsal Rough) | 2:37 |
