The World Is My Womb

by Nocturnal Emissions

The World Is My Womb cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 August 1987
  • Label: Earthly Delights
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:09
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: instruments, Caroline K

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Departing significantly from their earlier, violently abrasive power electronics, Nigel Ayers steers the project toward deep, occult minimalism. By layering environmental field recordings, acoustic loops, and haunting ritualistic chants, the album functions as an intensely hypnotic and mysterious ambient work.

Genres

Descriptors: occult, pagan, industrial, ambient, experimental, ritualistic, droning

Tracklist

  1. Tripod of Immortality (2:32)
  2. Sealing a Phase (4:52)
  3. Clear Bells (2:56)
  4. Lighten Our Darkness (3:38)
  5. Jangled Senses (3:40)
  6. Vegetation Flesh (3:20)
  7. Vegetation Narration (5:34)
  8. Shankini Nadi (3:53)
  9. Bird Position (2:27)
  10. Blended Senses (4:12)

Credits

  • Nocturnal Emissions - primary artist
  • Caroline K - composed by, instruments [played by]
  • Jon Wozencroft - electronics [gamelan sounds reprocessed by]

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