Music For A French Elevator and Other Oddities

Double Vinyl

Originally available as a part of the hugely acclaimed, super-deluxe A Dot In Time box set, Music For A French Elevator compiles all of the Books non-album tracks into one fittingly surreal package befitting the group who essentially created their own genre (often reluctantly described as collage-pop). A total of 45 tracks are here, including standouts and longtime favorites Classy Penguin, 8 Frame, and their sublime Nick Drake cover Cello Song Feat. Jose Gonzales. Along with their commissioned pieces for the 1% art and sound installation in the Ministry of Culture in Paris, France, the collection includes the Books unreleased film score for the feature-length Biosphere 2 documentary, a stellar collection of counterpoint electroacoustic explorations that emanate the kind of wry charm and wit that became a staple of the Books music. Packaged in an impeccably designed die-cut jacket w/ metallic inks, this collection proves that even the Books non-album material is worthy of emphatic celebration and adoration.

Tracklist

1. Fralite
2. Egaberte
3. Liternite
4. It's Musiiiiic!
5. The Joy of Nature
6. Meditation Outtakes
7. A Long Villainous Sequence
8. Millions of Millions
9. Of the Word God
10. Ghost Train Digest
11. You'll Never Be Alone
12. 'Ah..., I See'
13. Three Day Night
14. Classy Penguin
15. 8 Frame
16. Smack My Bishop
17. Biospheric Quiet
18. Happy Lawyers
19. Hericlitus
20. John's Arp
21. Foreign Country and Western
22. Dustbowl
23. Biospheric Doubletime
24. Drowned But Survived
25. Pickup Dark
26. Hermetic
27. Circle of Fifths Loop
28. Past Comes Welling Up
29. Electro Lawyers
30. Mars, OK
31. Biospheric Dark
32. Flythrough
33. Running Down
34. 8 Tons of Oxygen
35. 10,000 Crows
36. John's Epiphany
37. Lawyer Lullaby
38. Hokie Ranch
39. 2over3 Lawyers
40. Glass Glass
41. Biospheric Zither
42. Found Frozen Corndog
43. Cello Song Feat. Jose Gonzales
44. Epilogue
45. Pig