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SIDE A 1. Blue Flower 2. Sat Nam 2022 3. Himalaya Drone 4. The Fire and the Rose Are One 5. In the Orient Café (with Erik) 6. Shiva in the Rain 7. The Lights Are Different 8. Night Country (Mayotte) 9. Calling Your Name SIDE B 1. The Gardens of the West 2. Traherne 3. The Fire and Rose Suite (parts 1/2/3) Composed by Peter Culshaw except A1 (Culshaw/Tekin) and A5 (Culshaw/Nath). The Temple of Light Ensemble: Peter Culshaw (piano), Paras Nath (bansuri flute), Chandana Bala Kalyan (voice), Leoncia Flynn (voice), Aref Durvesh (tabla). Guest Stars: Sangeet Mishra (sarangi, B3), Finix Ramdas (violin, B3, B4), Yerosha Windrich (voice A6, B1), Prashant Salil (santoor, A7), Sanjeev Shankar (shenhai, B1), Vitaliy Tkachuk (bansuri flute, A2), Jyotsna Srikanth (violin A4, B3), Taras Kuznetsov (piano A9, B2), Aleks Pavlov (bass, B1) Sam Mills (guitar, A2), Zoe Gilmour (cello, B3). Co-produced by Peter Culshaw and Felix X Macintosh. Mumbai Supervisor, Vivek Rajagopolan. Mumbai engineer, Omkar Jambhekar, Executive Producers: Raghav Mani, Naya Beat. Ivan Duran, Stonetree Records. Vinyl Cutting: Frank Merritt at The Carvery Studio, London. Mastering: Ryan Morey. Cover Design: Kalina Owczarek. This album was paid for by the sale of Malcolm McLaren’s 1984 Mercedes, which he kindly left to me, and bets placed on Leicester City Football Club. Heartfelt thanks to Malcolm, who is greatly missed, and to Jamie Vardy and the gang. Thanks and Inspiration: Sam Mills for getting the ball rolling, my late Dad and Mum, Michelle, Felix, Vivek, Ivan at Stonetree, Raghav at Naya Beat, Sarah, Sam, Emma D, Nola R (for Blue Flower), Michael Morris (for West India Company), Elizabeth Rarog, Alina Putyshyna (in Odesa), Alexei Leirner and Gláucia Rodrigues (Imbassaí), Kalina Owczarek and all the brilliant musicians on the album, plus a shout-out to inspiring pianists from Ravel to Rubén González, Thomas de Hartmann to Professor Longhair. Moroccan Proverb: “Slowness comes from God, Haste comes from the Devil”.
