Matrikamantra is a 2-CD album by the singer-songwriter Lydia Lunch, first released on October 31, 1997 by Atavistic/Figurehead Records in 1997 (ALP94CD), and a year later in Germany through Crippled Dick Hot Wax! (CDHW 050). The first disc is a studio album that contains new material, while the second disc contains a live performance recorded at Palace Acropolis in 1997.

Matrikamantra
Studio album and Live album by
ReleasedOctober 31, 1997
RecordedHarbinger House, New York
March 1, 1997 at Palace Acropolis, Prague, Czech Republic
GenrePost-punk
Length96:31
Label
Atavistic/Figurehead Records (1997)

Crippled Dick Hot Wax! (1998)

ProducerLydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch chronology
Shotgun Wedding
(1991)
Matrikamantra
(1997)
Widowspeak
(1998)

Track listing

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All lyrics are written by Lydia Lunch; all music is composed by Joseph Budenholzer

Disc one (Harbinger House)
No.TitleLength
1."Need to Feed"3:51
2."Inverted Dream"2:33
3."Disease of the Night"5:45
4."Psychic Anthropology"3:46
5."Cesspool Called History"5:01
6."Dread"4:25
7."Escape"2:50
8."Itch"2:40
9."Solo Mystico"2:46
10."Lethe"3:26
11."In Spite of God"2:56
12."Archives of Blood"2:55
13."Outpatients"5:22
Disc two (Live in Prague)
No.TitleLength
1."Intro/World of Whispers"8:30
2."Cesspool Called History"5:18
3."Gravediggers of the Future"5:45
4."Need to Feed"6:36
5."Perfumed Corpses"6:29
6."Disease of the Night"4:33
7."In Spite of God/Vortex"11:12
8."Hermones"3:50
9."Dread"5:44
10."Outpatients/Exit"9:23

Personnel

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Harbinger House
  • Joseph Budenholzer – sound design
  • Joan Dalin – violin
  • Paul Geluso – mastering
  • Lydia Lunch – vocals
  • Laura Rogers – flute
  • Greg Shakar – clarinet, mastering
Live in Prague
  • Joseph Budenholzer – sound design
  • Tomáš Hadrava – mixing
  • Kamilsky – bass guitar, mastering, mixing
  • Lydia Lunch – vocals
  • Colin Stuart – mastering, mixing
  • Mr. Zak – mastering

References

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