Tilt
by Scott Walker
- Type: Album
- Released: 08 May 1995
- Label: Fontana
- Country: United States
- Length: 56:55
- Community rating: 4.35/5 from 14 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Tilt' marks Scott Walker's definitive shift into the avant-garde, combining his resonant baritone with stark, abstract soundscapes of dissonant orchestration, industrial noise, and unsettling silences. The album鈥檚 enigmatic lyrics explore bleak themes of political history, existential dread, and human cruelty, drawing on subjects like the trials of Adolf Eichmann and the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. A pivotal and uncompromising work, it is considered the first in a late-career trilogy that cemented Walker's status as a singular, experimental artist.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, avant-garde, orchestral, dissonant, conceptual
Tracklist
- Farmer In The City (Remembering Pasolini) (06:38)
- The Cockfighter (06:01)
- Bouncer See Bouncer ... (08:50)
- Manhattan (06:05)
- Face On Breast (05:15)
- Bolivia '95 (07:44)
- Patriot (A Single) (08:28)
- Tilt (05:13)
- Rosary (02:41)
Credits
- Scott Walker - vocals, guitar, artwork [concept and hand]
- Ian Thomas - drums, bass drum on lap and kit all at once, military bass drum and cymbals
- John Giblin - bass guitar, bass
- Brian Gascoigne - keyboards, orchestration, conductor, celesta, flutes, organ
- David Rhodes - guitars
- Sinfonia of London - strings
- Elizabeth Kenny - chitarrone, guitarrone
- Hugh Burns - guitar, guitars
- Alasdair Malloy - percussion
- Jonathan Snowden - flutes
- Andy Findon - bass flute
- Roy Jowitt - clarinet
- David Theodore - oboe
- Louis Jardim - percussion
- Colin Pulbrook - hammond organ
- Gregory Knowles - cimbalom
- Roy Carter - oboe
- Jim Gregory - bass flute
- Andrew Cronshaw - concertina, horns, ba-wu flute
- John Barclay - trumpets
- Peter Walsh - producer, pipes
- Stylorouge - art direction, design
- Richard Evans - engineer [additional]
- James Loughrey - engineer [assistant, mix, metropolis studios]
- Kevin Jacobs - engineer [assistant, mix, metropolis studios]
- Craig Walmsley - engineer [assistant, organ recordings at methodist central hall]
- Henry Binns - engineer [assistant, rak recording studios]
- Lorraine Francis - engineer [assistant, townhouse studios]
- Pete Lewis - engineer [assistant, townhouse studios]
- Ian Cooper - mastered by