How He Loved The Moon (Moonsongs For Jhonn Balance)

Deluxe limited edition of 31 numbered copies (20 copies for retail sale and 11 copies as gifts for the artists involved) of the double vinyl set pressed on red vinyl with a bonus picture 7" and a bonus acetate 7". Also includes an art print, a signed insert, and a numbered and signed four-page 'funeral' card (reproduces the text of "Moonbird For Jhonn" and a short farewell message by David Tibet for Jhonn Balance that he read at Jhonn's funeral), hand-printed for David Tibet and Beta-lactam Ring by Alan Anderson. The double LP is packaged in a full-color gatefold sleeve. All contents of the box are stored in a custom-sewn white bag housed instead a custom-made wood box (made of pine, oak and walnut with the joints being dovetailed and the lid etched with text and artwork). Original retail price for these sets was $425 each. The double-sided acetate 7" will be unavailable elsewhere and contains two versions of "Moonbird For Jhonn". Track 7-C is David Tibet reading the elegy without music and track 7-D is a song version of the elegy constructed by Tibet with Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. All material (except tracks 7-C & 7-D) remixed by Steven Stapleton from the [m=21924] LP / CD at Colin Potter's ICR Studios in Lancashire except for the 7" single, which was remixed by Steven Stapleton and postmixed by Michael Lawrence at Coptic Cat Studios, London. All tracks previously unreleased, except LP Track A which appeared as Track 1 on the release [m=161549].