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 analogue 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 made 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 for the first time released 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 and is also released for the first time.

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

To me this new release is in a way 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.