Unavailable for almost three decades, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new artwork. A documentation of the soundtrack work created by Psychic TV for the film-maker and artist Derek Jarman, it serves as a demonstration of why PTV were one of the most important groups in the underground scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
The titular ‘Prayer For Derek’ is intended as an invocationary prayer and is based on Tibetan rituals; a collage of sounds including field recordings of the lulling waves running aground on the shingle beach opposite Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent alongside bird song, crying babies and massed ritualised chants to aid the late director in his after-life journeys.
Other tracks feature elongated drones, washes of dissonance, melancholic guitar chime, evocative piano scoring, Burroughs cut-ups, gothic chants and snarling dogs.
The Loops Of Mystical Union
Theme for Home Movies, a video journal by Derek Jarman
Elipse Of Flowers
Theme for Home Movies, a video journal by Derek Jarman
Mylar Breeze
Themes for a short movie circa ‘Sebastiane’ (1976) by Derek JarmanPrayer For Derek
Theme expressing personal reminiscence and prayers from 1969/1993 and beyond
Rites Of Reversal
Tonal theme intended for a film by G. P-Orridge of Williams S. Burroughs for which Derek Jarman was the camera person
A PRAYER FOR DEREK JARMAN
TRACKLISTING
1 The Loops Of Mystical Union (17:55)
2 Elipse Of Flowers (10:58)
3 Mylar Breeze (Parts 1 & 2) (7:52)
4 Mylar Breeze (Part 3) (11:56)
5 Prayer For Derek (17:21)
6 Rites Of Reversal (7:40)
MUSICIANS
Genesis P-Orridge
John Gosling
Larry Thrasher Recorded at The Building Site and Jhopdi Studios
Produced by Genesis P-Orridge | track 6 co-produced by Larry Thrasher
Liner Notes by Genesis P-Orridge and Larry Thrasher
2025 Remaster by Martin Bowes at Cage Studios
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