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Disc One Individual Track Credits
Disc Two Individual Track Credits
All tracks disc one and two mastered by David MacQurie @ 301 Studios Sydney
Additional edits and compile by Reece Tunbridge
Original master on 1st Woman and Espionage by Don Bartley
Design and layout by Psychodelic Art & Design
All artwork for this release (booklet, tray liner, and on discs) show scenes from the Sandro Botticelli painting "Alegoría de la Primavera (aka The Allegory of Spring) (1477-78); 315 x 205 cm (10' 4" x 6' 9"); painted for Lorenzo di Medici's Villa di Castello; now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. Their description of the scene from this painting used on the cover: "...the Zephyr wind can be seen, chasing Clori, the nymph of Nature, and making her fertile." According to The WebMuseum, Paris entry for this painting, "Zephyr, the warm wind of Spring, embraces the Roman goddess Flora, or perhaps the earth nymph Chloris, disphanously clad and running from his amorous clasp. She is shown at the moment of her metamorphosis into Flora, as her breath turns to flowers which take root over the countryside."
The booklet contains the following poem:
somewhere just the other side of the mirror
between the black paper and the glass
where all possible things have happened
when all impossible things are always happening
in a little galaxy in a vortex whirl
on a day like tomorrow
if the calendar is correct
as you notice I'm missing
you take out a record
which plays in the background
filling rooms full of shadows
with dozens of notes
gone in an identical world
they remain in yours
and the music emerges
all ready assembled
but differently put down
a gift from a star
and all thats familiar
is switched or abandoned
leaving only an outline
where we used to stand
The UK/Australia promo version includes a label with the following text:
Appropriately titled "Parallel Universe", the double album, with CD1 subtitled "remixture", and CD2, "mixture", is a real treat for both new listeners, old fans, and collectors alike. At this point in their career, The Church have happily, realistically and modestly abandoned all hope of repeating the success of "Milky Way", but their self-styled freedom from the burden of expectations allows them to fashion and make music as they desire and see fit, without regard for current trend or the market, trusting in the traditional virtues of talent, chemistry and good taste to guide them, the essence of an approach that has served them well for over twenty years. As one critic stated, their "timeless, placeless songs hang in the air with a humid presence, like half remembered objects, mysterious and inviting."
