All tracks composed by Fred Frith except where noted. Side one
01 "Kick the Can (part 1)" – 2:19 02 "Carnival on Wall Street" – 2:51 03 "Ahead in the Sand" – 3:16 04 "Laughing Matter" / "Esperanza" – 7:47 05 "Women Speak to Men; Men Speak to Women" (Frith, Curran) – 5:39
Side two
06 "A Spit in the Ocean" – 2:17 07 "Navajo" – 3:05 08 "Balance" – 5:04 09 "Saving Grace" – 1:57 10 "Speechless" – 3:05 11 "Conversations With White Arc" (Frith, Laswell) – 1:14 12 "Domaine de Planousset" – 2:59 13 "Kick the Can (part 2)" – 2:14
Bonus tracks on 1991 CD re-issue
14 "The Entire Works of Henry Cow" – 1:00 15 "So Schnell Ich" (Frith, Laswell, Maher) – 3:25 16 "I'm Still Here and I Know What Time It Is" (Frith, Curran) – 1:06 17 "No More War" (Frith, Gore) – 4:46 18 "Typical American Family" – 1:01 19 "Dig" – 3:07
Personnel Side One
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, mellotron, organ and bass guitar (track 1), voice (track 3) Etron Fou Leloublan: Guigou Chenevier – drums, tenor saxophone and voice (track 3) Bernard Mathieu[16] – soprano and tenor saxophones, voice (track 3) Ferdinand Richard – bass, guimbarde, voice Jo Thirion – organ, harmonium
Guests
Tina Curran – recorders, unusual edits Roger Kent Parsons – bagpipes (track 4) Bob Ostertag – field tape recordings
Production
Recorded at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August 1980.
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, keyboards, bass guitar (tracks 3,5,8), drums (tracks 2,3), voice Massacre: Bill Laswell – bass guitar Fred Maher – drums
Guests
Steve Buchanan – snake saxophone (track 2) George Cartwright – alto saxophone (tracks 1,2,4) Mars Williams – baritone saxophone (tracks 1,2,4) Tina Curran – recorders, bass guitar (tracks 2,7)
Production
Recorded at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August, 1980. Tracks 1, 4 and the end of track 2 were recorded live at a Massacre concert at CBGB in New York City, April 1980, and were later altered and added to in Switzerland; track 6 is an unaltered improvised piece from the same concert.[9]
Charlie Martin – engineer (USA) Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland) Robert Vogel – engineer (Switzerland)
Записано в Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Швейцария в июле и августе, 1980. дорожки 1, 4 и конец трека 2 были записаны вживую на концерте Резня в CBGB в Нью-Йорке, апрель 1980 года, а затем были изменены и дополнены в Швейцария; дорожка 6 представляет собой неизмененном импровизированные кусок из того же концерта. [9]
Чарли Мартин - инженер (США) Этьен Коно - инженер (Швейцария) Роберт Фогель - инженер (Швейцария)