Tilt (album)

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Tilt
Studio album by Scott Walker
Released	8 May 1995
Genre	Avant-garde/Experimental
Length	56:58
Label	Fontana
Producer(s)	Scott Walker and Peter Walsh
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link City Pages (favourable) 15 October 1997 Rolling Stone 16 October 1997 World Socialist Web Site (favourable) 4 June 2002 The Yale Herald (favourable) 22 September 1995
Scott Walker chronology
Climate of Hunter (1983)	Tilt (1995)	Pola X soundtrack (1999)

Tilt is a critically acclaimed 1995 album by Scott Walker.

Contents 1 Details 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 3.1 Core personnel 3.2 Additional playing 4 External links

[edit] Details

The cover features Walker's hand, photographed and manipulated by David Scheinmann. The lyrics of "The Cockfighter" include "excerpts relocated from the trial of Queen Caroline and the trial of Adolf Eichmann."

All the songs on the album were composed between 1991 and 1992, except "Manhattan" (1987) and "Rosary" (1993).

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by N. S. Engel (Scott Walker).

1. "Farmer in the City" – 6:38
2. "The Cockfighter" – 6:01
3. "Bouncer See Bouncer..." – 8:50
4. "Manhattan" – 6:05
5. "Face on Breast" – 5:15
6. "Bolivia '95" – 7:44
7. "Patriot (a single)" – 8:28
8. "Tilt" – 5:13
9. "Rosary" – 2:41

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Core personnel

• Scott Walker – Vocals
• Ian Thomas – Drums
• John Giblin – Bass
• Brian Gascoigne – Keyboards
• David Rhodes – Guitars

[edit] Additional playing

• "Farmer in the City"
  • Strings of Sinfonia of London, arranged and conducted by Brian Gascoigne
  • Elizabeth Kenny – Chittaroni
  • Roy Carter – Oboe

• "The Cockfighter"
  • Hugh Burns – Guitar
  • Alasdair Malloy – Percussion
  • Louis Jardim – Percussion
  • Andrew Cronshaw – Horns and Reeds
  • Brian Gascoigne – Celeste and Organ of the Methodist Central Hall

• "Bouncer See Bouncer..."
  • Jonathan Snowden – Flutes
  • Andy Findon – Bass Flute
  • Jim Gregory – Bass Flute
  • Roy Jowitt – Clarinet
  • Roy Carter – Oboe
  • Brian Gascoigne – Woodwind Orchestration and Organ of the Methodist Central Hall
  • Peter Walsh – Prog Bass Drum

• "Manhattan"
  • Alasdair Malloy – Percussion
  • Louis Jardim – Percussion
  • Brian Gascoigne – Organ of the Methodist Central Hall
  • Andrew Cronshaw – Concertina

• "Face on Breast"
  • Ian Thomas – "Bass Drum on lap and kit all at once"
  • Colin Pulbrook – Hammond Organ
  • Scott Walker and Peter Walsh – Whistles

• "Bolivia '95"
  • Hugh Burns – Guitars
  • Alasdair Malloy – Percussion
  • Louis Jardim – Percussion
  • Andrew Cronshaw – Ba-wu flute
  • Greg Knowles – Cimbalom

• "Patriot (a single)"
  • Strings of Sinfonia of London, orchestrated and conducted by Brian Gascoigne
  • Jonathan Snowden – Piccolo
  • John Barclay – Trumpets
  • Ian Thomas – Military Bass Drum and Cymbals

[edit] External links

• Tilt at MusicBrainz
• Scott Walker interview - The Wire, May 1995