Credits adapted from liner notes.
Additional musicians • Alasdair Malloy – percussion , glass harmonica •
Luís Jardim – percussion • Danny Cummings – percussion • Julian Poole – percussion • Steve Hilton – programming •
Howie B – programming •
Richard Hawley – lap steel guitar , twelve-string guitar •
The Swingle Singers – backing vocals • Joanna Forbes – musical direction, vocal arrangements •
Beverly Skeete – backing vocals •
Sylvia James – backing vocals •
Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals • Jeremy Shaw – keyboards •
Scott Walker – additional keyboards and tree effects , baritone guitar • Andy Findon – ocarinas and flutes • Caspar Cronk – musical saw • Timos Papadopoulos at the
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton University under supervision of Professor Phil Nelson – birdsong •
Philip Sheppard – five string electric cello •
Metro Voices – choir
Production • Scott Walker – production, mixing •
Peter Walsh – co-production, engineering, mixing; choir engineering • Matt Lawrence – assistant engineering; additional choir engineering • Chris Blair – mastering • Clive Goddard – choir engineering • Geoff Foster – strings recording •
Gavyn Wright – strings leading • Isobel Griffiths – orchestral contracting • Jenny O'Grady – choral co-ordination • Steve Price – choir recording
Arrangement • Scott Walker – strings , ten double basses • Brian Gascoigne – strings , ten double basses , choir •
Candida Doyle – strings
Artwork •
Jarvis Cocker – art direction •
Peter Saville – art direction • Howard Wakefield – design • Marcus Werner Hed – design ==Charts==