Neon Bible

~ Release by Arcade Fire (see all versions of this release, 11 available)

Annotation

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Venue Information

Recorded and mixed: "the church", Québec, Canada
Additional recording: Win Butler and Régine Chassagne's house; St. James Anglican Church, Bedford, Québec, Canada; Église St. Jean Baptist Church, Montreal, Canada; Unknown location, New York, NY; Hungarian National Radio Studios, Budapest, Hungary (Orchestra and Choir)
Additional mixing: Olympic Studios, London, UK
Mastering: Metropolis Studios, London, UK

Orchestra and Choir sessions:

Session coordination and editing: Michael Pärt
Orchestra contractor: Csaba Lokos
Copyist: Daryl Griffith
Gospel singers (tracks 8 & 11) session coordinator: Katherine Cram
Thanks: Ven. Dr. Brian A. Evans, Archdeacon of Bedford (assistance during St. James Anglican Church recording); Église St. Jean Baptist Church, Montreal, Canada (use of organ)

Album cover shoot:

Production assistance: Jean-Luc Della Montagna for NúFilms
Director of photography: François Miron
Costumes: Renata Morales
Thanks: McGill Synchronized Swim Team; Jenny Craig; Elle Nunnerley-Paquette; Chloe Vice; Michelle Adelman

Miscellaneous

Website: Vincent Morisset; Olivier Groulx
General thanks: Scott Rogers (Quest Management); Liza Shaw (friendship love)
Name Neon Bible from novel by John Kennedy Toole, used with permission of Grove Press Inc. c/o Macintosh & Otis Ltd.

Annotation last modified on 2009-02-13 00:20 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Black Mirror
3 4:11
22 Keep the Car Running
3.5 3:29
33 Neon Bible
4 2:16
44 Intervention
4.5 4:19
55 Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
3 3:57
66 Ocean of Noise
4.35 4:53
77 The Well and the Lighthouse
3 3:56
88 (Antichrist Television Blues)
4.5 5:10
99 Windowsill
3 4:16
1010 No Cars Go
4.5 5:43
1111 My Body Is a Cage
4 4:47

Relationships

additional design/illustration:
Morgan Charles [ Remove | Edit ]
Maggie Fost [ Remove | Edit ]
additional mixer:
Arcade Fire (tracks 1, 10)
additionally recorded by:
François Chevallier [ Remove | Edit ]
Alex Droomgoole [ Remove | Edit ]
Dave Emery (recording engineer) [ Remove | Edit ]
Mike Feuerstack [ Remove | Edit ]
Tom Hough [ Remove | Edit ]
Sharon Levinson [ Remove | Edit ]
James Ogilvy (recording engineer) [ Remove | Edit ]
arranger:
Arcade Fire (tracks 1–11)
art direction:
Tracy Maurice [ Remove | Edit ]
chorus master:
Peter Drucker [ Remove | Edit ]
composer:
Arcade Fire (tracks 1–11)
conductor:
István Silló [ Remove | Edit ]
design/illustration:
Tracy Maurice [ Remove | Edit ]
guest brass:
Jacob Valenzuela (track 6)
Martin Wenk (track 6)
guest cello:
Mélanie Auclair [ Remove | Edit ]
guest choir vocals:
Shauna Callender (tracks 8, 11)
Joanne Degand (tracks 8, 11)
Chantel Gero (tracks 8, 11)
Tasha Gero (tracks 8, 11)
Jean Sherwood (tracks 8, 11)
guest harp:
Liza Rey (tracks 1, 7)
guest viola:
Marika Anthony-Shaw [ Remove | Edit ]
guest violin:
Owen Pallett [ Remove | Edit ]
lyricist:
Arcade Fire (tracks 1–11)
mastering:
Frank Arkwright [ Remove | Edit ]
mixer:
Arcade Fire (tracks 2–9, 11)
Markus Dravs (tracks 3, 5)
Nick Launay (tracks 2, 4, 6–9, 11)
Mark 'Spike' Stent (producer, engineer) (tracks 1, 10)
orchestrator:
Régine Chassagne (tracks 1–2, 10)
Owen Pallett (tracks 1–2, 10)
photography:
Christophe Collette [ Remove | Edit ]
producer:
Arcade Fire (tracks 1–11)
programming:
Hadji Bakara (tracks 1, 3, 11)
recorded by:
Scott Colburn (tracks 1–11)
Markus Dravs (tracks 1–11)
Dénes Rédly [ Remove | Edit ]
ASIN:
UK: B000MMLODS [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
UK: B000MMLOE2 [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/release/922306 [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
recording of:
(Antichrist Television Blues) (track 8)
Black Mirror (track 1)
Black Wave/Bad Vibrations (track 5)
Intervention (track 4)
Keep the Car Running (track 2)
My Body Is a Cage (track 11)
Neon Bible (track 3)
No Cars Go (track 10)
Ocean of Noise (track 6)
The Well and the Lighthouse (track 7)
Windowsill (track 9)