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Label info: Venture CDVE962 Date: May 27, 2002 Type: CD Copyright: Virgin Records Ltd.
Release info:: CAMPHOR â€“ Ltd. Edition 2CD â€“ 72438-12201-2-2 (US) CAMPHOR - CDVE962 (UK) CAMPHOR â€“ Ltd. Edition 2CD - CDVEX962 (UK) CAMPHOR - Virgin Japan VJCP 68424 (JP)
Instrumental compilation

Last three tracks only on limited edition bonus CD.

Remix of Wave by David Sylvian.
Plight (the spiraling of winter ghosts) is a detail of the original released by Sylvian/Czukay and remixed by David Sylvian.
Upon This Earth remixed by David Sylvian.
15. Mutability (a new beginning is in the offing)* detail ONLY on Japanese version.

Superb performance of Nils Petter Molvaer on Mother and Child!

Limited edition comes in a digipack with a bonus CD. Beautiful packaging. 'Booklet' is a fold-out poster, with a magnificent picture by Kevin Westenberg.
Album is dedicated to David's manager and best friend, Richard Chadwick and to Declan Colgan. Design of the artwork is (of course) by Russell Mills, with assistance of Michael Webster.
Note: Upon This Earth is not included on the inlay's tracklist.

Limited edition bonus CD:
1. Plight (the spiraling of winter ghosts)* (originally released as Sylvian/Czukay)
2. Mutability (a new beginning is in the offing)* detail (originally released as Sylvian/Czukay)
3. Premonition (giant empty iron vessel)* (originally released as Sylvian/Czukay)
Remixes* by David Sylvian.

The Japanese version: Besides having an obi, the Japanese version differs from the regular version by having a bonus track, Mutability (version), that can also be found on the bonus CD of the limited edition. In the tracklist on the back-inlay, no word of this extra track. The obi and the extra Japanese inlay mention it though. This additional Japanese inlay contains liner notes from some Japanese critic and from David, slightly different from his notes on the US press release and with the following remarkable paragraph:
"Virgin are in the process of re-mastering the solo catalogue and are including the Alchemy CD previously only available as part of the limited edition " Weatherbox" set. Pieces that failed to find a home on the compilation ( Steel cathedrals, Words with the Shaman) will once be widely available"

Camphor Camphor	Camphor Poster inlay	Camphor Limited edition
Camphor Japanese edition obi

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Tracklist

	#		Songs
1	1		All Of My Mother's Names	All Of My Mother's Names Experimental instrumental piece.
1	2		Red Earth (as Summertime ends)
1	3		Answered Prayers
1	4	The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection siddha kunjika stotram (The song which gives the key to perfection) siva uvaca (siva said) smu devi pravaksyami kunjika stotram uttamam yena mantraprabhavena candijapah subho bhavet (Listen, Oh Goddess, while i elucidate the excellent song which gives the key to perfection. By means of the brilliance of these mantras, the meditation of the goddess Chandi becomes easy) na kavacam nargala stotram kilakam na rahasyakam na suktam napi dhyanam ca na nyaso na ca varcanam (Not the armor, nor the praise which unlocks the bolt, nor the praise which removes the pin, nor the secrets: neither the hymns, nor even the meditations, nor the establishment of the mantras into the body nor the offering of worship and adoration) kunjika patha matrena durga phalam labhet ati guhyataram devi devanamapi durlabham (The recitation of the mantras which give the key will grant the fruits of the recitation of the glory of the goddess. Oh Goddess, this is extremely secretive and difficult even for the Gods to attain.) gopaniyam prayatnena svayoniriva parvati maranam mohanam vasyam stambhanoccata nadikam patha matrenam mohanam vasyam stambhanoccata nadikam patha matrena samsiddhyet kunjika stotram uttamam om aim hrim klim camundayai vicce om glaum hum klim jum sah jvalaya jvalaya jvala jvala prajvala prajvala aim hrim klim camundayai vicce jvala ham sam lam ksam phat svaha namaste rudra rupinyai namaste madhu mardini namah kaitabha harinyai namaste mahisardini namaste sumbha hantryai ca nisumbhasuraghatini jagratam hi maha devi japam siddham kurusve me aimkari srsti rupayai hrimkari prati palikwa klimkarf kama rupinyai bija rupe namo stu te camunda canda ghati ca yai kari varadayini vicce cabhayada nityam namaste mantra rupini dham dhim dhum dhurjateh patni vam vim vum vagadhisvari kram krim krum kalika devi sam sim sum me subham kuru hum hum humkara rupinyai jam jam jam jambhanadini bhram bhrim bhrum bhairavi bhadre bhavanyai te namo namah am kam cam tam tam pam yam sam vim dum aim vim ham ksam dhijagram dhijagram trotaya trotaya diptam kuru kuru svaha pam pim pum parvati purna kham khim khum khecarf tatha sam sim sum saptasati devya mantra siddhim kurusva me idam tu kunjika strotram mantra jagarti hetave abhakte naiva datavyam gopitam raksa parvati yastu kunjikaya devi hinam saptasatim pathet na tasya jayate siddhir aranye rodanam yatha om aim hrim klim camundayai vicce om glaum hum klim jum sah jvalaya jvalaya jvala jvala prajvala prajvala aim hrim lim camundayai vicce jvala ham sam lam ksam phat svaha.	The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection	The Song Which Gives the Key to Perfection Originally released on the bonus CD of the Everything and Nothing tourbook.
1	5		New Moon at Red Deer Wallow
1	6		Praise (Pratah Smarami)	Praise (Pratah Smarami) Text is traditional. Music by Shree Maa, arranged by David Sylvian.
1	7		Wave (version)	Wave (version) instrumental version
1	8		Mother And Child (remix)	Mother And Child (remix) Remixed by Jan Bang and Erik Honore.
1	9		Plight (version)	Plight (version) short, remixed version
1	10	Upon This Earth (Voice of J. G. Bennet) Looking by chance in at the open window I saw my own self seated in his chair With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead, Unkempt hair. I thought that I had suddenly come to die, That to a cold corpse this was my farewell, Until the pen moved slowly upon paper And tears fell. He had written a name, yours, in printed letters One word on which bemusedly to pore No protest, no desire, your naked name, Nothing more Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year? But the vision was not false, this much I knew And I turned angrily from the open window Agaist at you. Why never a warning, either by speech or look, That the love you cruelly gave me could not last? Already it was too late: the bait swallowed, The hook fast	Upon This Earth	Upon This Earth Upon This Earth contains a reading of the Robert Graves poem The Foreboding which can be found in any selected edition of the poetry or in his collected poems (cassell p,95). The reading is by Robert himself and is taken from an album of his readings on a label called Argo, long since passed.
1	11	Big Wheels in Shanty Town Dolphin, faced for the crime The birthday of time	Big Wheels in Shanty Town	Big Wheels in Shanty Town Cindy Crawford lost a law-suit for using the track Big Wheels In Shanty Town in one of her work-out videos.
1	12	The Healing Place (Voice of Joseph Beuys) that has to be the age of overcome the systems which are on the ceiling which are on the run to destroy human kind's nation human kind's inwardness human kind's ability what for me is a true capital and which is a side effect last not least destroys the nature and us	The Healing Place	The Healing Place Features voice of Joseph Beuys.
1	13		Camphor	Camphor Originally released as track on the Everything and Nothing tourbook bonus CD.
1	14		A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce
2	1		Plight	Plight Full title: Plight (The Spiralling Of Winter Ghosts)
2	2		Mutability	Mutability Full title: Mutability (A New Bginning Is In The Offing)
2	3		Premonition	Premonition Full title: Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)