The Desertshore Installation

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The Desertshore Installation
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Box set by
Released10 June 2007
Recorded1–3 June 2007
Genre Industrial
Label Industrial
Throbbing Gristle chronology
Part Two: The Endless Not
(2007)
The Desertshore Installation
(2007)
TGV
(2007)

The Desertshore Installation is a box set that was recorded and released by Throbbing Gristle in June 2007. The 12-CDr set documents the recording sessions of the cover version of Nico's third studio album, Desertshore [1] . These recordings were made as a document of TG's Desertshore Installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). [2] These sessions, over three days (1-3 June), were open to the public [3] and a short question and answer session is included in the recordings. Each session lasted for approximately two hours and there were two sessions per day, an afternoon (12–2 p.m) and an evening (7–9 p.m) session [4] . The box set only had one pressing.[ citation needed ]

Contents

A number of jams recorded during the installation appear on Throbbing Gristle's tour-only album release The Third Mind Movements .[ citation needed ] According to Tutti, the ICA recording sessions were the last time all four band members would record together [4] .

After the band split up in 2010, Tutti, Carter and Christopherson continued work on the project under the name X-TG [4] . The resulting album, Desertshore/The Final Report  [ fr ], was released in 2012 [3] .

CDr information

  1. Friday Afternoon Disc A - (1:09:02)
  2. Friday Afternoon Disc B - (1:04:30)
  3. Friday Evening Disc A - (1:02:47)
  4. Friday Evening Disc B - (0:54:06)
  5. Saturday Afternoon Disc A - (0:48:08)
  6. Saturday Afternoon Disc B - (0:47:36)
  7. Saturday Evening Disc A - (1:07:58)
  8. Saturday Evening Disc B - (0:55:46)
  9. Sunday Afternoon Disc A - (0:47:15)
  10. Sunday Afternoon Disc B - (1:01:42)
  11. Sunday Evening Disc A - (0:46:01)
  12. Sunday Evening Disc B - (1:07:02)

Session set-lists

Friday, Session 1:

Friday, Session 2:

Saturday, Session 3:

Saturday, Session 4:

Sunday, Session 5:

Sunday, Session 6:

References

  1. Micah, Jared (10 February 2012). "Throbbing Gristle to perform selections from unfinished final album next month". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  2. Discogs - Desertshore Installation 2007 12CDr, Industrial Records, UK
  3. 1 2 Petridis, Alexis (22 November 2012). "Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti: Desertshore/The Final Report – review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Tutti, Cosey Fanni (2017). Art Sex Music. Faber & Faber. p. 422. ISBN   978-0-571-32852-9.