The Future
Sound of London - Sendero Luminoso (05:53)
Available on: From The Archives Vol. 5
Lyrics:
None
Notes:
Spanish for Shining Path, that was also the working title for this - one
of two mixes of the track - in 1997. Says Gaz in 2001:
"Prior to coming out to LA, Brian and I and Ian [Astbury,
The Cult] had penned a vaguely Tomorrow Never Knows (a track
which repeatedly freaked us out during this period) kind of track
called The Shining Path. It had turned out a little bit too
serious though - somehow there was too much darkness in the
lyric...". One of fourteen known tracks from these 1997
sessions, Sendero Luminoso is a dark track with breaks and bass
also heard on Head Hunter, sitars, backwards guitars and some Papua New Guinea samples. Though it and the other version
of The Shining Path never featured the lyrics Gaz spoke of, the
track and those sessions mark the initial work on the Amorphous project
that became The Isness. After many years of fan speculation, the
popular track finally came out in 2008 on From The Archives
Volume 5.
Credits:
Written by Dougans/Cobain. Produced by The Future Sound of
London.