Tales of the Inexpressible

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Tales of the Inexpressible
Studio album by Shpongle
Released	July 1, 2001
Recorded	?
Genre	World music Psybient
Length	69:00
Label	Twisted Records
Producer(s)	Shpongle
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Shpongle chronology
Are You Shpongled? (1999)	Tales of the Inexpressible (2001)	Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost' (2005)

Tales of the Inexpressible is Shpongle's second album, and was released in 2001. Simon Posford and Raja Ram continue the musical journey started by previous album Are You Shpongled? with the second album "Tales of the Inexpressible", where we are yet again introduced to the musical collaboration between Simon Posford and Raja Ram. Now, Raja Ram is introducing Spanish and Oriental sounds, together with Simon Posford on the classical guitar.

The song whose name is most often stated as "Room 23" appears on the back cover of the album with the name "Room 2ॐ", where the character after "2" is actually the Om, the Hinduist sacred syllable.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Dorset Perception" – 8:12
2. "Star Shpongled Banner" – 8:23
3. "A New Way to Say 'Hooray'" – 8:32
4. "Room 23" – 5:05
5. "My Head Feels Like a Frisbee" – 8:52
6. "Shpongleyes" – 8:56
7. "Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness" – 7:30
8. "Around the World in a Tea Daze" – 11:21
9. "Flute Fruit" – 2:09

[edit] Credits

• Raja Ram: flute, vocals
• Simon Posford: programming, guitar, synths, semi-acoustic bass
• Michele Adamson: vocals (Dorset Perception), backing vocals (Blissful Awareness)
• Abigail Gordon: vocals (Blissful Awareness, Tea Daze)
• Harry Escot: cellos, fake acoustic bass
• Pete Callard: acoustic guitars

[edit] Miscellanea

• The name of the song "Dorset Perception" alludes to Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. Dorset is the location of Posford's studio, the Hallucinogen Sound Labs.
• The Shpongle song "A New Way to Say 'Hooray'" contains a sample of a lecture by Terence McKenna, in which he references the Pink Floyd song The Gnome (from the 1967 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album). The gnomes are actually creatures which Terence describes meeting over and over on many of his DMT related trance experiences.
• The "Er, no offense but you are a robot, aren't you?" sample used in "Shpongleyes" is taken from the classic science fiction movie Forbidden Planet
• The male vocal on Around the World in a Tea Daze after 6:45 is a sample from a famous Turkish song titled Dönülmez Akşamın Ufkundayız. The lyrics are originally a poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı.