FORMAT: 4xLP

RELEASE DATE: 21 Nov 2006

FILE UNDER: ROCK

CATALOG NO: TOE-LP-85

UPC: 6 00401 01851 4

VINYL: NON-RETURNABLE

LP 1

Side A

1. Sharks (9:20)

2. Planaria (9:54)

3. Eels (6:13)

Side B

1. Coelacanths (7:28)

2. Juana (12:34)

LP 2

Side C

1. House of the Rising Sun /

Nightmare (19:09)

Side D

1. Juana / Guitar Lamento (17:06)

LP 3

Side E

1. Red Rocking Chair (9:26)

2. Song for Sara (6:20)

Side F

1. Son House / Marilyn / My Prayer /

Mood Indigo (21:05)

LP 4

Side G

Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues:

I (2:18)

II (3:05)

III (1:34)
IV (2:23)

RELEASE DATE: November 21, 2006

TOE-CD-85 TOE-LP-85

SEA CHANGES & COELACANTHS

A Young Person’s Guide to

JOHN FAHEY

n the 43 years between his first recordings and his death in 2001, John Fahey stomped across

the American soundscape, leaving behind footprints of influence so breathtakingly vast that
entire genres now huddle within them. His mesmeric guitar compositions fused the blues' syncopated
rhythms with contemporary dissonance; eastern influences with musique-concrète. He was the first to
demonstrate that traditional steel-string finger-picking techniques could be used to express a universe of
non-traditional ideas. Playing with versatility and a fierce imagination, Fahey expanded the boundaries of the
guitar, and his contribution to American music is immense.

In the early 1960s, a young John Fahey searched out the missing bluesmen Skip James and Bukka White, thereby
igniting the acoustic blues revival. By the early 1990s, it was Fahey's turn to be rescued from oblivion by young
enthusiasts — and reawakened from his hibernation, he had no intention of pandering to traditionalists.
Invigorated by the contemporary music underground, the man was ready to set minds ablaze. Through his
partnership with Table of the Elements, Fahey released a series of extraordinary records, now compiled for the
first time as Sea Changes & Coelacanths.

Here is Fahey's trademark American Primitive sound at its most harrowing and resolute. Featuring Skip
James-influenced vignettes, deep-sea string-bendings, sonic collages, oaken reverberations and lengthy,
impressionistic suites, these recordings — made between 1996 and 1998 — comprise a major portion of
Fahey's canon, and are the logical next-step in his life-long journey of exploration. Sea Changes & Coelacanths
embodies an artistic essence, with sounds that are undiluted, uncompromised, starkly honest, pure of vision and
in every way innovative — just like the man himself.

"Now that John Fahey, the Great Koonaklaster no longer walks among us, it may be possible to review this final period of his
amazing trajectory with the requisite objectivity. There is no more New John anymore; no more Old John. There is only John
Fahey — Immortal Motherf*cker of the 20th Century.

"And it's time for you to eat his dust."

—Byron Coley, from the liner notes

"John Fahey has created a universe of complexity, emotion and exquisite otherness for acoustic steel-string guitar. His
musical inventions match those of John Coltrane and Harry Partch for sheer transcendental American power . . . He is as
monumental and singular a musical talent as any this country has produced."

—Spin

"Fahey explored the mystique as well as the manner of roots music, evoking a mythic America."

—Rolling Stone

2XCD and 4XLP SETS FEATURE OVER TWO HOURS OF MUSIC; 64-PAGE BOOK (CD) / 12 PAGE LIBRETTO (LP) INCLUDES NEW

ESSAYS BY BYRON COLEY, DAVID FRICKE AND DAVID GRUBBS, AN INTERVIEW WITH AND ORIGINAL TEXT BY JOHN FAHEY;

PLUS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PHOTOGRAPHS (CD ONLY)

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6 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 8 5 1 4

CD

LP

FORMAT: 2xCD

RELEASE DATE: 21 Nov 2006

FILE UNDER: ROCK

CATALOG NO: TOE-CD-85

UPC: 6 00401 01852 1

Disc 1

1. Sharks (9:20)

2. Planaria (9:54)

3. Eels (6:13)

4. Coelacanths (7:28)

5. Juana (12:34)

6-9. Hard Time Empty Bottle

Blues:

6. I (2:18)

7. II (3:05)

8. III (1:34)
9. IV (2:23)

Disc 2

1. House of the Rising Sun /

Nightmare (19:09)

2. Juana / Guitar Lamento (17:06)

3. Red Rocking Chair (9:26)

4. Song for Sara (6:20)

5. Son House / Marilyn /

My Prayer / Mood Indigo (21:05

)