In January 2007 I was once again thinking about remastering the original Sleep & Poetry album and this time I started right away. It was really fun, listening to the old digital master tapes and tweaking them with the help of some tube simulating software to make them sound a bit more analog again, as they originally had been on the 24-track master tape. I also edited some of the song´s beginnings and endings and finally altered the playing order, mainly because of 2 new tracks:

"The Traveller" was originally intended to be on the album but then didn´t make it, due to time and money problems. After the CD was released, I could finish this song, but only a shortened version was later put on a compilation album.
Here is now the complete mix in full length.

"Drifting Monsters (Reprise)" was a side take of mixing the original song. With a new bass-line added and some different athmosperic background guitars, it was a bit more "Massive Attack"-stylish with the delicate girls voices hovering above the music. This track was later only used for promotional purpose.

With these two additional songs I could happily drop "Red Sails Into Dusk", the last track on the original album, which always has been, I have to admit, a bit of a filler (being an backwards played outtake from "Reading, Writing...").

To me, in a way, this is the "real" Sleep & Poetry album - it sounds much better than the old one and the tracklisting is now as it should have been back then, if all the recorded songs would have been at hand.