Soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film 'The Last Temptation of Christ', re-titled as a result of legal barriers.
Recorded between February 1988 and March 1989 at Real World Studios, Box, England. Mastered at Town House Cutting Room.
The following tracks contain selections from existing recordings of traditional music.
Track A1 - The Doudouks are playing an Armenian melody 'The Wind Subsides', recorded for Ocora Records under the direction of Robert Ataian.
Track A4 - Incorporates a traditional melody from Kurdistan. Kurdish Duduks are from Unesco Collection - A Musical Anthology of the Orient, General Editor Alain Danielou for Musicaphon Records.
Track B1 - Written around a traditional Egyptian rhythm which is performed to fend off evil spirits.
Track B3 - Based on an improvisation by Shankar and Peter Gabriel.
Track B4 - The Ney Flute is playing a traditional Armenian melody.
Track C2 - Based on an improvisation by Mahmoud and Peter Gabriel.
Printed inner sleeves.
NM/NM
℗ 1989 Virgin Records Ltd.
© 1989 Real World/Virgin Records Ltd.
A very similar edition, Passion, has a different German price code, D: 370, whereas this edition has D: 406.
TOPAC Gesellschaft für Tonträger-Verpackung mbH is explicitly credited on back cover, TOPAC identified by ▷◁ symbol impressed on back cover.
