Presented for the first time on CD, "World Transmission" is a series of rare tracks, consolidated and performed by COLUMN ONE in chronological order to document some of its phases. This work exists as a stepping stone while its essential creators were at work.

- "W.T. 1", recorded 1991-92 (released as a tape-only release in 1992), focused on the roots of COLUMN ONE that lie in a combination of coded key sounds and images, degrees and movements of immersion and subversion into their consciousness. These recordings take place without variations in a psychic Space; without raising claim of wanting to enter a musical universe. This CD also documents the first attempts to experiment with tape and sound in 1984, over previously unreleased tracks.

- "W.T. 2" was originally released on LP + 7" in 1993 was created with voices, violin, bells, steel, real and electronic percussion, tape-manipulation, organ whistles, accordion, xylophone, keyboards and more.

- "W.T. 3" was an attempt to follow the physical aura of religious architecture. It documents COLUMN ONE over two days in a church, repelling the vibrating body of this concentrated space using microphones, effects, a record player, AMP, and speakers. The manipulated sounds were radiated into the room, but the key and character of the recording are to be found in the architectural presence of the church itself.

- "W.T.4" is the revised document of a COLUMN ONE event on 3rd April 1998 at Eimer in Berlin. Vibrations of "Ritual" materials were produced with acoustic instruments and sounds from the direct environ. Vibrations in a vault, in the centre of Berlin, with all COLUMN ONE members in white robes in catacombs scenery.

- "W.T.5" was recorded in August 2001 and August 2010. Under the banner of "Continuum", is the final chapter in the World Transmission series.

Regular Edition, encased in an outer matt card slipcase, flood-printed on the inside, with each of the 5 albums is presented in its own 6-panel glossy digisleeve. Ltd x 150 copies.

WORLD TRANSMISSION CONCEPT:

The concept of these five albums, their visual and conceptual direction, was exclusively based on the artificial body that is COLUMN ONE. It was the petrified root of this body that was buried in a pile of plastic, only to grow wondrous blooms from time to time. In a time when museums still had doors and words were barked into megaphones on the quiet. The showcase had been open long, the root penetrates other layers of Earth and bestows peace upon collectors of spores and seeds.

Continuum,. Upwards. Across narrow paths and overgrown rocks the calling and creaking loses itself in the treetops. It seems as if one climbs down into the coves of the forest. The wooden cathedral. Each sound lies naked in the silence of the interior, while the outside rushes from far above . Protected by these walls, servants, masters, and rulers move about their empires, sleepwalking, floating, gnawing and devouring themselves, dragging and circling, tearing and creaking, stomping and buzzing all in one tone. Weighing tons, their craft lies one forest floor, permeates and moves it, rises with the fluttering stroke of a wing, and sinks back into the ocean now and then large animals drift through these sacred halls. Kings are they. Lost in reverie they rumble through the throne room. Barley audible, a billion legs tick, like clocks. Crack tiny splinters beneath their feet.