Bish Bosch
by Scott Walker
- Type: Album
- Released: 3 December 2012
- Label: 4AD
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:00
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 12 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Concluding his avant-garde trilogy, 'Bish Bosch' is Scott Walker's most sparse, abstract, and challenging work. The album features erratic bursts of noise, silence, and bizarre instrumentation (including machetes and ram's horns) accompanying Walker's operatic baritone. It is a surreal, often terrifying, and darkly humorous exploration of the grotesque that defies all musical convention.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, scary, experimental, orchestral, dissonant, atonal
Tracklist
- 'See You Don't Bump His Head' (04:06)
- Corps De Blah (10:11)
- Phrasing (04:45)
- SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter) (21:41)
- Epizootics! (09:40)
- Dimple (06:47)
- Tar (05:39)
- Pilgrim (02:26)
- The Day the "Conducator" Died (An Xmas Song) (07:45)
Credits
- Ben Farquharson - artwork [painted words]
- John Giblin - bass
- Chris Fish - cello
- Dom Pecheur - cello
- Frank Schaefer - cello
- Joely Koos - cello
- Justin Pearson - cello
- Nerys Richards - cello
- Tamsy Kaner - cello
- Vicky Matthews - cello
- Peter Walsh - co-producer, recorded by
- Mark Warman - conductor, orchestrated by
- Philip Laslett - design
- Alice Kent - double bass
- Chris West - double bass
- Clare Tyack - double bass
- Enno Senft - double bass
- Lucy Hare - double bass
- Stacey Watton - double bass
- Stephen Warner - double bass
- Steve Rossell - double bass
- Ian Thomas - drums
- Hugh Burns - electric guitar, baritone guitar [electric], guitar [ebow guitar], acoustic guitar, dobro, pedal steel guitar [hawaiian], ukulele
- James Stevenson - electric guitar, baritone guitar [electric], mandoguitar
- Michael Laird - horns [kudu, shofar]
- Scott Walker - keyboards, percussion, electric guitar
- Negus-Fancey Company - management [scott walker]
- Alex Wharton - mastered by
- Steve Rooke - mastered by
- BJ Cole - pedal steel guitar [hawaiian]
- Alasdair Malloy - percussion, gong [tuned gongs], other [machetes]
- Davy Evans - photography by
- Geoff Foster - recorded by [orchestra] [air studios]
- Andrew McDonnell - sounds [lo rumbles & white noise]
- Adam Miller - technician [assistant] [air studios]
- John Prestage - technician [assistant] [air studios]
- Angie Teo - technician [assistant] [metropolis studios]
- Liam Nolan - technician [assistant] [metropolis studios]
- Paul Norris - technician [assistant] [metropolis studios]
- Xavier Stephenson - technician [assistant] [metropolis studios]
- Scott Knapper - technician [assistant] [sofasound studios]
- Guy Barker - trumpet
- Tom Rees-Roberts - trumpet
- Pete Long - tuba [tubax], baritone saxophone
- Steve Morris - violin [2nd - leader]
- Brian Wright - violin [2nd]
- Charlie Brown - violin [2nd]
- Clive Dobbins - violin [2nd]
- Elizabeth Wexler - violin [2nd]
- Nikki Gleed - violin [2nd]
- Paddy Roberts - violin [2nd]
- Sebastian Rudnicki - violin [2nd]
- Steve Bentley-Klein - violin [2nd]
- Tom Pigott-Smith - violin [2nd]
- Paul Willey - violin [first - leader]
- Abigail Young - violin [first]
- Ann Morfee - violin [first]
- Boguslaw Kostecki - violin [first]
- Dave Smith - violin [first]
- David Ogden - violin [first]