The First Day

Tracklist

• 1
  God’s Monkey
  5:00
• 2
  Jean the Birdman
  4:10
• 3
  Firepower
  10:27
• 4
  Brightness Falls
  6:06
• 5
  20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman’s Song)
  11:53
• 6
  Darshan (The Road to Graceland)
  17:19
• 7
  Bringing Down the Light
  8:31

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Between the Silence

Between the Silence 2018

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Plight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability 2018

Release credits

• Dan McLoughlin
  additional
• David Bottrill
  engineer, mix, producer, programming, sampler, mix [2]
• David Sylvian
  guitar, keyboard, mix, producer, vocal, mix [2]
• Ingrid Chavez
  guest
• Jerry Marotta
  membranophone, percussion
• John Yates
  additional
• Marc Anderson
  guest, percussion
• Mark Glass
  additional
• Robert Fripp
  electronic instruments, guitar, producer
• Trey Gunn
  Chapman stick, guest, guest
• Trina Shoemaker
  additional

Issues

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  T
  The First Day

  CD
  5 July 1993
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  T
  The First Day

  CD
  10 August 1993
• T
  The First Day

  CD
  1993
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  T
  The First Day

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1993
• T
  The First Day

  CD (EMI Music Canada Release)
  1993
• T
  The First Day

  CD
  14 July 2014