Other contributors include Norwegian trumpeter and Supersilent member Arve Henriksen, Swedish vocalist Stina Nordenstam, and Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano.

Whilst touring Blemish I was introduced to Burnt Friedman whose music I’d been enjoying in recent months."

Burnt Friedman took these tracks and completed them as part of an album he’d been working on with Jaki Leibezeit.

As I worked on this material, radically editing the sound files, replacing Jaki’s drum patterns with Steve’s, adding keyboard, guitar, and vocal elements to the arrangements I thought of pulling together the two individual projects (the one I’d started with Steve, the other with Burnt) into one cohesive whole.

"[3] The first version of the track "The Librarian" was released 6 months earlier on the Twelve-inch single "Out in the Sticks" by Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit.