...All That Might Have Been...

A Complete 3-CD Set (a [url=/release/6416135]standard 1-CD[/url] and a [url=/release/6327208]vinyl[/url] versions are also available). Disc 1: the CINE Disc 2: the SONGS (in different order than the vinyl version) Disc 3: the RETRO The discs are housed in separate card covers along with 2 lyric booklets, one for each of the two vocal discs. Each disc represents a different aspect of the music as explained by Hammill on his website "The main release is a single CD, in the same form of packaging as was used for "Consequences". The music is presented here in continuous form and is cinematic by design. As in a film, scenes move backward and forward in time and space and characters appear and disappear without much by way of explanation. The scenes have been formed by slashing apart the forms of the original songs with which I started the project and reassembling them into this new form. It's *not* music looking for an imaginary film, but more like a combination of screenplay and music at the same time. To the best of my knowledge no-one has attempted such a project before." "A special edition 3-CD box set is also available. This contains the main, cinematic, CD as well as one in which the individual songs are presented in more conventional fashion. The third CD is a stripped down instrumental collage."