All tracks composed by Fred Frith except where noted. Side one
01 \"Kick the Can (part 1)\" – 2:19 02 \"Carnival on Wall Street\" – 2:51 03 \"Ahead in the Sand\" – 3:16 04 \"Laughing Matter\" / \"Esperanza\" – 7:47 05 \"Women Speak to Men; Men Speak to Women\" (Frith, Curran) – 5:39
Side two
06 \"A Spit in the Ocean\" – 2:17 07 \"Navajo\" – 3:05 08 \"Balance\" – 5:04 09 \"Saving Grace\" – 1:57 10 \"Speechless\" – 3:05 11 \"Conversations With White Arc\" (Frith, Laswell) – 1:14 12 \"Domaine de Planousset\" – 2:59 13 \"Kick the Can (part 2)\" – 2:14
Bonus tracks on 1991 CD re-issue
14 \"The Entire Works of Henry Cow\" – 1:00 15 \"So Schnell Ich\" (Frith, Laswell, Maher) – 3:25 16 \"I'm Still Here and I Know What Time It Is\" (Frith, Curran) – 1:06 17 \"No More War\" (Frith, Gore) – 4:46 18 \"Typical American Family\" – 1:01 19 \"Dig\" – 3:07
Personnel Side One
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, mellotron, organ and bass guitar (track 1), voice (track 3) Etron Fou Leloublan: Guigou Chenevier – drums, tenor saxophone and voice (track 3) Bernard Mathieu[16] – soprano and tenor saxophones, voice (track 3) Ferdinand Richard – bass, guimbarde, voice Jo Thirion – organ, harmonium
Guests
Tina Curran – recorders, unusual edits Roger Kent Parsons – bagpipes (track 4) Bob Ostertag – field tape recordings
Production
Recorded at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August 1980.
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, keyboards, bass guitar (tracks 3,5,8), drums (tracks 2,3), voice Massacre: Bill Laswell – bass guitar Fred Maher – drums
Guests
Steve Buchanan – snake saxophone (track 2) George Cartwright – alto saxophone (tracks 1,2,4) Mars Williams – baritone saxophone (tracks 1,2,4) Tina Curran – recorders, bass guitar (tracks 2,7)
Production
Recorded at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland in July and August, 1980. Tracks 1, 4 and the end of track 2 were recorded live at a Massacre concert at CBGB in New York City, April 1980, and were later altered and added to in Switzerland; track 6 is an unaltered improvised piece from the same concert.[9]
Charlie Martin – engineer (USA) Etienne Conod – engineer (Switzerland) Robert Vogel – engineer (Switzerland)