Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996) is the first full length album released by The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects...

 of The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

The first few thousand copies of the album were released with a bonus CD, Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences

Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences

The first few thousand copies of Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle were released with this bonus CD. It consists of nine tracks of ambient sounds, recorded by Olivia Tremor Control. It has been claimed that this album will produce quadraphonic sound when played in...

. It has been claimed that this album will produce quadraphonic sound when played at the same time as that disc. However, the two disks differ in length by approximately five minutes, rendering this an unlikely intention. The Flydaddy 017 release was reissued as a double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 with Explanation II as the second disc. This bonus disc was later re-released as a full album by Flydaddy in 1999 but the most recent Cloud Recordings reissues do not include the extra disc.

Track listing

(All songs written by The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects...

)

1. "The Opera House
   The Opera House (song)
   The Opera House is a song by indie pop band The Olivia Tremor Control. The two B-Sides can be played on two separate stereos to produce a quadraphonic "third" song.-Track listing:CD 1#"The Opera House" - 3:15...
   
   " – 3:12
2. "Frosted Ambassador" – 1:02
3. "Jumping Fences
   Jumping Fences
   "Jumping Fences" is a 1998 single by The Olivia Tremor Control.-Track listing:#"Jumping Fences" - 1:52#"Optical Atlas" - 2:33#"Language of Stationary Travellers" - 6:30#"Green Typewriters " - 9:44...
   
   " – 1:52
4. "Define a Transparent Dream" – 2:49
5. "No Growing (Exegesis)" – 3:00
6. "Holiday Surprise 1, 2, 3" – 6:11
7. "Courtyard" – 2:57
8. "Memories of Jacqueline 1906" – 2:15
9. "Tropical Bells" – 1:40
10. "Can You Come Down with Us?" – 2:18
11. "Marking Time" – 4:28
12. "Green Typewriters" – 2:22
13. "Green Typewriters" – :24
14. "Green Typewriters" – :59
15. "Green Typewriters" – 2:11
16. "Green Typewriters" – 1:10
17. "Green Typewriters" – :38
18. "Green Typewriters" – 1:38
19. "Green Typewriters" – 9:39
20. "Green Typewriters" – 1:21
21. "Green Typewriters" – 2:39
22. "Spring Succeeds" – 2:25
23. "Theme for a Very Delicious Grand Piano" – :57
24. "I Can Smell the Leaves" – 1:50
25. "Dusk at Cubist Castle" – 7:35
26. "The Gravity Car" – 1:45
27. "NYC-25" – 4:39

Performance

Instrumentation and vocals by The Olivia Tremor Control:

• Bill Doss
  Bill Doss
  Bill Doss is among the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, based in Athens, Georgia, and one of the key creative forces behind The Olivia Tremor Control, one of the leaders of the collective, and later, following the band's break-up, The Sunshine Fix...
  
  
• W. Cullen Hart
• Eric Harris
  Eric Harris (musician)
  Eric Harris is an American musician who played the drums for The Olivia Tremor Control from 1995 to 2000. Harris currently drums for Elf Power.-References:*...
  
  
• John Fernandes
  John Fernandes
  John Fernandes is an American multi-instrumentalist musician.-Professional career:Fernandes, along with several other members of the Elephant Six Collective, joined the acclaimed psychedelic pop group The Olivia Tremor Control in Athens, GA in 1994...
  
  

with additional instrumentation by The Elephant 6 Orchestra:

• Robert Schneider
  Robert Schneider
  Robert Peter Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, along with Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum...
  
   - Tibetan prayer board, bass, vocals, melodica
• Jeff Mangum
  Jeff Mangum
  Jeff Mangum is a musician best known for being the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist of the band Neutral Milk Hotel, as well as being one of the cofounders of The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Mangum, along with the other founding members of the Elephant 6, attended Ruston High School in the late...
  
   - chanter pipe, slide guitar, vocals, melodica, piano, and space bubbles
• Julian Koster
  Julian Koster
  Julian Koster is an American underground musician and storyteller. A member of the Elephant 6 Collective, he is the leader of The Music Tapes, and a former member of Neutral Milk Hotel and Chocolate USA. He is also an influential and long time performer on the singing or Musical Saw...
  
   - bowed electric guitar, mallet struck acoustic guitar, and the singing saw
• Steve Jacobek - trumpet
• Rick Benjamin (disambiguation)
  Rick Benjamin (disambiguation)
  Rick Benjamin is a racing announcer.Rick Benjamin may also refer to:*Rick Benjamin , director and founder of The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra*Rick Benjamin , trombonist and contributor to numerous Elephant 6 Recording Co. albums...
  
  - trombone

Production

Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle was produced by The Olivia Tremor Control and The Elephant 6 Orchestra with Robert Schneider. The album was recorded between 1993 and 1996 on 4-track before further engineering and production by Schneider on 8-track. Album artwork and design was created by W. Cullen Hart and Bill Doss.