Treatise on the Steppenwolf, by The Durutti Column

Treatise on the Steppenwolf

by The Durutti Column

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1.	A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1) 03:45	info	buy track
2.	The Mothers and the Fathers 05:53	info	buy track
3.	A Wolf of the Steppes 05:12	info	buy track
4.	Interlude 03:54	info	buy track
5.	The Title On the Cover 03:27	info	buy track
6.	Divided 03:01	info	buy track
7.	Magic Theatre 02:39	info	buy track
8.	Soul Track 04:29	info	buy track
9.	Harry Dreams the Dream 04:04	info	buy track
10.	A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2) 03:42	info	buy track
11.	Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1) 04:04	info	buy track
12.	Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2) 06:51	info	buy track
13.	Lullaby (Live at Tramway 3/5/2003) 04:58	info	buy track
14.	Mello (Live at Tramway 1/3/2003) 02:54	info	buy track
15.	Human Avatars (Pt 1) 12:01	info	buy track
16.	Human Avatars (Pt 2) 10:17	info	buy track
17.	Human Avatars (Pt 3) 11:07	info	buy track

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Factory Benelux presents the only soundtrack album recorded by The Durutti Column, the Factory Records ensemble fronted by lauded guitarist and composer Vini Reilly.

Treatise on the Steppenwolf is a soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty (of fellow Factory band The Wake), first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in an ongoing state of conflict.

‘Steppenwolf was something I’d read recently and when we approached Durutti Column with the idea it turned out they were interested too,’ explained McInulty. ‘People have described their music as ambient, although that’s a description they don’t care much for. It’s certainly atmospheric and there’s something about their sunny-sounding guitar that seemed appropriate to a book that, although published in 1927, didn’t become popular in America until the 1960s.’

This expanded vinyl edition combines the studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed live by The Durutti Column during the Glasgow run, along with 2 additional live tracks from the shows, as well as 3 extended pieces from the Human Avatars art installation staged at Manchester Museum of Science and technology (MOSI) in 2005.

Newly mastered for vinyl by Peter Beckman at TechnologyWorks

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released February 4, 2024

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