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Released
  
1983

Artist
  
10,000 Maniacs

Label
  
Mark Recordings

Recorded
  
March–July 1983

Release date
  
1983

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Secrets of the I Ching (1983)
  
The Wishing Chair (1985)

Similar
  
10 - 000 Maniacs albums, Other albums

Secrets of the I Ching is the first full length album by 10,000 Maniacs (following their 1982 EP release), released in 1983 by Christian Burial Music, the band's own label.the album was recorded at SUNY fredonia with only 500 copies made This is also the first of their recordings with the new and permanent drummer Jerome Augustyniak. Rerecorded versions of the songs "Tension" (as "Tension Makes a Tangle"), "Grey Victory", "Daktari" and "My Mother the War" appeared on their 1985 album The Wishing Chair. The song "Tension" is itself a re-recording of a song that initially appeared on the band's debut EP, Human Conflict Number Five.

Contents

All the tracks on this LP, in remixed, remastered and resequenced form, appear as part of the 10,000 Maniacs compilation CD Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983.

Track listing

All songs written by John Lombardo and Natalie Merchant, unless if noted

  1. "Grey Victory" (John Lombardo/Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant)- 2:59
  2. "Poor de Chirico" - 3:09
  3. "Death of Manolete" - 3:52
  4. "Tension" - 3:30
  5. "Daktari" - 4:10
  6. "Pit Viper" (Steven Gustafson/Natalie Merchant)- 3:51
  7. "Katrina's Fair" (Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant)- 2:57
  8. "The Latin One" (John Lombardo/Wilfred Owen)- 2:59
  9. "National Education Week" (Dennis Drew/Natalie Merchant)- 2:47
  10. "My Mother the War" (John Lombardo/Michael Walsh/Natalie Merchant)- 3:31

The above track listing is for the original Mark Records pressing for Christian Burial Music, the band's own label. Subsequent editions of this album are missing "National Education Week".

Personnel

  • Natalie Merchant: lead vocals
  • John Lombardo: rhythm and bass guitars
  • Robert Buck: lead guitar/devices, synthesizers
  • Steven Gustafson: rhythm and bass guitars
  • Dennis Drew: Fender Contempo organ
  • Jerome Augustyniak: drums
  • 10,000 Maniacs: producer
  • Gustav Doré: artwork
  • Bob Grotke: mastering
  • David Brick: mixing
  • Albert Garzon: producer, engineer, mixing
  • Christian Burial Music: publisher

    • Reception

    Robert Christgau, recalled Merchant, "said – and I'll inform you that I was only 17 years old, so it made a big impression on me – that I'd written the most pretentious lyrics since lysergic acid had been in flower. I was upset then but now I laugh about it because I've put Robert Christgau in perspective."

    Songs

    1Grey Victory3:08
    2Poor de Chirico3:09
    3Death of Manolete3:52

    References

    Secrets of the I Ching Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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