3 Organum CD releases - Brainwashed

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Organum
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October 2006
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David Jackman © 2005, 2006

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Entry 3:01
Submission
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Complacency :: CPCD9401
Country :: Year USA :: 1994
Edition
2000 copies
Tracks Cowl (5:56) :: The Expelled (3:17) :: Submission (10:04) :: Renunciate (18:25)
Same tracks and track order as the original 1988 United Dairies vinyl LP Submission (see entry 2:06) but with
completely new artwork by David Jackman. Booklet has colour outer-booklet and black & white inner-booklet
images. Front cover image is derived from a 1930’s first aid manual. Background is thin alternating red and
yellow radials. The CD is totally grey with no information. Credits given: As entry 2:06, with the following
additional text: Musical & Graphic compositions © Copyright David Jackman 1994. Music Published by
Matchless Recordings & Publishing 1994 (PRS & MCPS) England. Complacency P.O.Box 1452 Palatine IL
60078 USA ·FAX 708-437-3040.

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Entry 3:01
Submission (cont’d)

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Entry 3:02
Veil Of Tears
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Matchless Recordings :: MRCD24
Country :: Year UK :: 1994
Edition
1500 copies
Tracks
Veil Of Tears (part 1) (14:46) :: Delta (14:56) :: Obon (4:48) :: Lamentations (7:47) :: Veil
Of Tears (part 2) (14:43)
Booklet artwork by David Jackman. Front: laughing men with fish, over alternating thin blue and cream sunburst
radials. Back: hammer, chick and cats. Black & white inner-booklet image features a rabbit sitting on a set of
false teeth, repeated five times (which was used as a T-shirt design, see entry 10:04). Note: Tracks 1 & 5 were
recorded in 1990, the date on the CD sleeve is incorrect (see entry 7:21). Track 2 was engineered & mixed live
by Ron Briefel. This fact was accidentally omitted from the sleeve notes (Apologies, Ron - D.J.). Credits given:
Considerable information is presented on the back: Tracks 1 & 5 recorded 1992 with Michael Prime, Dinah
Jane Rowe and David Jackman. Track 2 recorded live at Recommended Records, London 1990 with Roger
Sutherland, Michael Prime, Dinah Jane Rowe and David Jackman. Track 3 recorded 1985 all sounds by David
Jackman remixed 1994 by Robert Hampson and Jim O’Rourke. Track 4 recorded 1994 with Robert Hampson,
David Jackman and with archive sound from 1985 by Philip and Richard Rupenus. All music compositions
copyright David Jackman 1994. Music published by Matchless Recordings and Publishing (PRS & MCPS).
Insert artwork David Jackman © 1994. Special thanks to British Railways and to Philip and Richard Rupenus.
Layout and typesetting by Impetus. Published by Matchless Recordings and Publishing 1994.

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Entry 3:02
Veil Of Tears (cont’d)

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Entry 3:03
Flayed | Crux
Artist
Eddie Prévost | Organum
Label :: Cat# Matchless Recordings :: MRCD27
Country :: Year UK :: July 1995
Edition
1000 copies
Tracks
Flayed (19:54) (by Eddie Prévost) :: Crux (18:30) (by Organum)
Black and white fold-out inlay card featuring the same cover images as the original Silent Records 1987 vinyl
LP release (see entry 2:05) except without any text. Text-less sleeve design used on a T-shirt (see entry
10:04). Inside the fold-out inlay is a short text by David Ilic dated May 1995. Important: The tray card text does
not mention that Steven Stapleton was involved in the production and mix of Crux. In fact, the final shape of that
piece was entirely due to Steven’s efforts. David Jackman offers his apologies to Steven for this unintended
omission. The insert sleeve notes state that David Tibet has been a contributor to Organum music. This is
incorrect. Tibet has not participated in any Organum recordings. Credits given: As with all Matchless CD
releases there is quite a lot of information presented on the back: Flayed features mainly Eddie Prévost on
drums, general percussion and acme thunderer whistle. David Jackman added some bowed cymbals and
electronic sounds. Crux features Andrew Chalk on bowed gong, David Jackman drone flute, bowed piano,
Dinah Jane Rowe drone flute and Stephen (sic) Stapleton on chair. Flayed and Crux were produced by David
Jackman and first released on an LP by Silent Records (USA) SR 8704A/B. Flayed copyright of Eddie Prévost
© 1987. Crux copyright of David Jackman © 1987. Music published by Matchless Recordings and Publishing
PRS/MCPS. Artwork by David Jackman © 1987. Notes by David Ilic © 1995. Published by Matchless
Recordings and Publishing 1995. Along with the usual copyright warnings is written: Matchless Recordings and
Publishing 2 Shetlock’s Cottages, Matching Tye, near Harlow, Essex, CM17 0QR, UK. Manufactured in the
United Kingdom.

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Entry 3:03
Flayed | Crux (cont’d)

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Entry 3:04
Desola
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Robot Records | Aeroplane Records :: RR-09 | AR-18
Country :: Year USA/UK :: September 1995
Edition
1000 copies
Tracks Desola Pt.1 (6:18) :: Shin-En (5:43) :: Desola Pt.2 (4:01)
The CD is black with the words ‘ORGANUM DESOLA’ written with no break between the words and with
regular spacing in a circular fashion round the disc. The disc is housed in a regular slimline CD slip-case. The
insert has a uniform dark green front with the words ‘ORGANUM DESOLA’ printed in black type across the
centre. The rear of the insert is plain black. The rear flap has the track titles, copyright and publishing
information and the joint label address printed in white type on black. The spine has artist, title and catalogue
number. Christoph Heemann contributed an accordian drone to Desola Pt.1.

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Entry 3:05
Kammer
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Aeroplane Recordings :: AR-25
Country :: Year UK :: February 1997
Edition
990 copies
Tracks Kammer (17:47)
5” CD EP in white card gate-fold sleeve. The CD is housed in a black ‘inner-sleeve’ with clear plastic window.
Generic sleeve used for CD-ROMs with title ‘ORGANUM KAMMER’ in a small circular stamp on top left of the
front cover. The CD is light matt-grey with credit details written as a continuous text in light green around the
edge (artist, track title, date, label and USA contact address). The track was recorded live on 2nd March 1996.
Musicians were Emma O’bong, Michael Prime and David Jackman. A video recording was made of this
performance.

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Entry 3:06
Organum Volume One
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Robot Records :: RR-17
Country :: Year USA :: July 1998
Edition
500 copies
Tracks Tower of Silence Pt.1 (2:18) :: Tower of Silence Pt.2 (7:11) :: Voice Of The Angel (3:46)
:: Incarnate (4:44) :: Rasa (18:16) :: In Extremis Pt.1 (11:12) :: In Extremis Pt.2 (8:33)
Booklet is printed solid black throughout. Traycard is printed solid black on both sides. Spines have, in white
capitals on black, ORGANUM VOLUME ONE ROBOT RECORDS RR-17. Completely clear jewel-case. The disc is solid
black with, in white capitals in a continuous circle around the disc: ORGANUM VOLUME ONE / TOWER OF SILENCE
PT1 / TOWER OF SILENCE PT 2 / VOICE OF THE ANGEL / INCARNATE / RASA / IN EXTREMIS PT 1 / IN EXTREMIS PT 2.
This collection is a reissue of the Tower Of Silence E.P. on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecord from 1985 (see entry 2:01),
the A-side of the In Extremis E.P. on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecord, also from 1985 (see entry 2:02) and the
Organum (B-side) of the 1987 United Dairies split LP A Missing Sense | Rasa (see entry 2:04).

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Entry 3:06
Organum Volume One (cont’d)

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Entry 3:07
Bird’s Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies And Their Feet Froze To
The Ground
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Die Stadt :: DS-21
Country :: Year Germany :: 1999
Edition
700 copies
Tracks Bird’s Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies And Their Feet Froze To The Ground (47:45)
Plain white CD with no text. 4-page booklet with the same black & white image of a military scrap yard repeated
on each page. Tray insert text credits (highlights as original): mat fox robert hampson david jackman emma
o’bong michael prime image iwm London. The single track is broken into 3 untitled parts with durations: 7:28,
35:34 and 4:40.

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Entry 3:07
Bird’s Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies And Their Feet Froze To
The Ground (cont’d)

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Entry 3:08
Organum Volume Two
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Robot Records :: RR-18
Country :: Year USA :: July 2000
Edition
500 copies
Tracks Valley of Worms (20:07) :: Horii (12:48) ::
Ich Reiste Weit Und Verweilte Fur Einigezeit In Tring (9:10)
Label Press Release ::
Meticulously remastered for truly maximum fidelity, includes material primarily culled from the 'In Extremis' and 'Horii'
sessions (12" titles originally released on L.A.Y.L.A.H., 1985/86).. Track 1, 'Valley of Worms', includes the complete B-side
(album version) of 'In Extremis' which features Jackman's collaborative work with The New Blockaders. This 20 minute piece
is a massive eruption of relentless, burrowing atmospheres that are often disturbing as they are engaging. Track 2, 'Horii', is
an alternate version (differing from the 12" release) which features Jackman's collaboration with Andrew Chalk. At over 12
minutes, this piece offers a very bizarre melange of sputtering bowed percussion, homemade woodwinds and voice. Track
3, 'Ich Reiste Weit Und Verweilte Fur Einigezeit In Tring', is a previously unreleased work from 1989 that capsules many of
the (purely acoustic) compositional elements associated with the early L.A.Y.L.A.H. sessions. As with 'Volume One', these
three dynamic compositions easily represent the raw beauty and intensity of the early Organum sound.

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Entry 3:08
Organum Volume Two (cont’d)

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Entry 3:09
Ikon
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Robot Records | Siren Records :: RR-23 | SR-06
Country :: Year USA / Japan :: 2001
Edition
500 copies
Tracks Crawl (4:09) :: Great Light (2:42) :: Ikon (3:08) :: The Slaughter (4:18) :: Gleam (1:05)
Reissue of the 1987 cassette LP (see entry 4:19) which was, in turn, reissued by Dom in 1989 (see entry 2:08).
Label Press Release ::
"Appearing only for a short time as a small edition cassette on Aeroplane (1987), and then later as a 12" EP (1989) on
Christoph Heemann's Dom Bartwuchs label, 'Ikon' proved to be a monumental achievement in the Organum sound. Within
the five compositions, Jackman combined self-made woodwind instruments along with vast droning environments to create
spacious, haunting landscapes. These melodic undercurrents were paired with voice, percussive streams, and an
assortment of textural elements that convey an incredibly eerie yet beautiful sense of space. Remastered and including an
alternate mix of the title track, 'Ikon' is an awesome document of one of David Jackman's most important works. 16
minutes."

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Entry 3:09
Ikon (cont’d)

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Entry 3:10
Salute
Artist
Organum & The New Blockaders
Label :: Cat# Robot :: RR-25
Country :: Year USA :: July 2001
Edition
500 copies
Tracks Salute Part 1 (3:00) :: Salute Part 2 (3:00) :: Salute Part 3 (3:00) :: Salute Part 4 (3:00) ::
Salute Part 5 (3:00) :: Salute Part 6 (3:00) :: Salute Part 7 (3:00) :: Salute Part 8 (3:00)
Pale blue CD with white text came in a clear jewel case (no booklet or tray card). Reissue of the cassette EP
titled of the same name, first issues in 1984 on Frux Recordings and later in 1989 on Aeroplane with completely
new artwork (see entry 4:20).
Label Press Release ::
Early collaborative material from 1984. Originally only available as a cassette (released initially by the UK's Frux label, then
later on David Jackman's Aeroplane label) in very small editions. Salute is comprised of 8 parts and can be viewed as the
first full-length collaboration between Organum and The New Blockaders following the release of the legendary 'Pulp' 7" in
1983. These pivotal sessions, as the title suggests, were landmark recordings. The result was in essence an appreciative
'salute' amongst the collaborators with respect to their individual as well as collective work. This remastered edition is a
massive improvement in sound over the rare cassette versions. Not only do the intense tonal textures finally blaze through in
their truly maximum form, but the CD edition also allows for an uninterrupted running program.

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Entry 3:11
Pulp
Artist
Organum & The New Blockaders
Label :: Cat# Robot :: RR-26
Country :: Year USA :: 2002
Edition
500 copies
Tracks Pulp (2:59) :: Pulp (3:01) :: Pulp (2:55) :: Pulp (3:00) :: Pulp (3:0) ::
Wrack (3:08) :: Wrack (3:09) :: Wrack (3:07) :: Wrack (3:04) ::
Raze (1:35) :: Raze (1:34) :: no title (3:10)

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Entry 3:11
Pulp (cont’d)

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Entry 3:12
Sphyx
Artist
Organum & The New Blockaders
Label :: Cat# Robot :: RR-30
Country :: Year USA :: 2003
Edition
700 copies :: digipack
Tracks Aurora (16:32) :: Sphyx (7:33) :: Mutla (11:51) :: Aeo (5:42) :: Shining Star (2:43)

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Entry 3:13
Vacant Lights | Rara Avis
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Die Stadt :: DS62A (Disc 1) and DS62B (Disc 2)
Country :: Year Germany :: 2004
Edition
600 copies :: gatefold digisleeve :: 1st 150 copies with poster
Tracks :: CD1
Tracks :: CD2
Vacant Lights (Part 1) (17:00) :: Vacant Lights (Part 2) (15:17)
Iuel (3:27) :: Wolf (4:07) :: Obon (Version) (4:42) :: Hibakusha (3:40) :: Rara Avis (3:44)
Label Press Release ::
Jochen Schwarz / DIE STADT is very delighted to announce the re-release of 'Vacant Lights' one of his all time favourite
works by David Jackman, in combination with a second CD comprising of five unreleased or hard to find tracks entitled 'Rara
Avis'. David Jackman, active since the late sixties as a member of THE SCRATCH ORCHESTRA and later with many solo
works and under the name ORGANUM with changing line-up's, was supported on these recordings by some of the main
collaborator's during this Organum phase: Dinah Jane Rowe, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost (AMM), Christoph Heemann
(H.N.A.S.), Robert Hampson (Main) as players and Steven Stapleton (NWW) and Peter McGhee in the studio. Most of the
recordings on these two CD's show the more contemplative side of the ORGANUM sound, the main characteristic being
Jackman's playing of various types of bamboo flutes some of which were actually made by David Jackman. The inside cover
features one of the two collages by David Jackman that were used for the original LP sleeve. Cover design by Jonathan
Coleclough. Edition of 600 copies in 4panel full color digisleeve. The first 150 copies incl. a poster with the artwork feat. on
the back side of the original LP cover.
VACANT LIGHTS: recorded live in the backyard of long-gone IPS Studio, Sherperd's Bush, London. Performed by Dinah
Jane Rowe and David Jackman, with Steven Stapleton and Peter McGhee at the controls. Four recordings were made. Two
survive and are presented on this CD. Originally released as an LP on Jon Carlson's Dom America label in the late 1980's,
the CD version has been carefully re-mastered from the original reels. It was one of the easiest and most trouble-free
Organum albums to make. Jane and I went to IPS on a sunny 20 August 1986, did the music in an hour and a half, went
home. It was ordinary, a normal day.
RARA AVIS is a short collection of five pieces, three of which have appeared on 7-inch singles: IUEL and WOLF on Dom
America, HIBAKUSHA on Walter Robotka's Syntactic label. Jim O'Rourke added guitar to IUEL, Christoph Heemann put
some microphone feedback into WOLF. OBON (VERSION), originally recorded way back at IPS, is one of four alternate
mixes engineered years later by Robert Hampson and Mr. O'Rourke. RARA AVIS is a previously unused mix created by Jim
circa 1991 from sounds made during the AURORA sessions of 1990. Extensively re-worked in 2003, it features Jim, Jane,
Eddie Prevost and myself. At the time of writing, Jim and the others have not heard what is in effect a new piece.
Alan Jones of RMS Studios, London, provided excellent and ever-patient help with the editing of the masters.
My thanks to all who helped to create these works. David Jackman Sunday 23 May 2004

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Entry 3:13
Vacant Lights | Rara Avis (cont’d)

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Entry 3:13
Vacant Lights | Rara Avis (poster)

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Entry 3:14
Tinnitus Vu
Artist
Organum | Z’ev
Label :: Cat# Touch :: Tone 19
Country :: Year UK :: 2004
Edition
1000 copies :: digipack
Tracks
Tracks here
Label Press Release ::
17-minute EP recording, based on David Jackman source recordings. Z'EV writes: "Long long ago and far far away... holiday
season 1999 & I was in London, & my dear friend Barbara took me to dinner at the house of her friend Olivia -- round the
corner & down the block & Olivia had invited her friend David Jackman (aka Organum) there also -- and so we met. Fast
forward... it's July 2003 & I'm in London again & will be here for a while so I see if I can hook up w/ Mr. Jackman again. Thus
begins a search for the man himself -- thanks here to Brainwashed & Robot Records for facilitating this flow of info -- so we
meet one Sunday afternoon in the hottest summer London has ever seen at the Crown & Greyhound for a bit of a chat. The
next day Mr. Jackman is going into the studio to record some source for a new series of compositions & invites me by. There
am I bright & early (but certainly not bushytailed) at 11 am in the morn (just about the middle of the night for me actually).
But anyway. During the some breaks in his process we retire to a most delightful garden behind the studio & chit & chat &
get around to a major congruence -- ie, our hearing -- or, in fact, our various lacks of it to be precise and go onto getting into
details regarding the intricacies of our varying degrees of tinnitus. That was the impetus behind David offering to give me a
copy of the session to dirty my hands w/ -- as I did. Anyway -- one treatment led to another & David came by for dinner & I
played him some early results & it seems he was enthused. He came by for dinner again & he heard the initial 4 treatments
& so began the talks about this actually becoming a collaborative project that would release product."

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Entry 3:14
Tinnitus Vu (cont’d)

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Entry 3:15 Tocsin -6 Thru +2
Artist
Organum | Z’ev
Label :: Cat# Die Stadt :: DS77
Country :: Year Germany :: 2005
Edition
600 copies
Tracks Tocsin –6 (Z'ev) (4:08) :: Tocsin –5 (Z'ev) (3:57) :: Tocsin –4 (Z'ev) (3:25) ::
Tocsin –3 (Z'ev) (3:33) :: Tocsin –2 (Z'ev) (4:28) :: Tocsin –1 (Z'ev) (4:03) ::
Tocsin 0 (Z'ev) (3:38) :: Tocsin +1 (Jackman) (14:54) :: Tocsin +2 (Jackman) (7:13)
Label Press Release ::
Following their maxi CD 'Tinnitus Vu' on Touch in 2004 'Tocsin' is the first full length album produced together by these two
renowned sound artists. Whereas 'Tinnitus Vu' was mostly the result of Z'ev reworking material by Jackman, 'Tocsin' is the
result of the artists agreeing to meet and work together in the studio. They created and recorded sounds from a piano (which
can be found at RMS Studios London) and a stainless steel instrument (built by Z'ev circa 1989), over the course of several
hours. They then took the recordings home, and after a period of each one mixing these sounds by themselves came up
with what can be heard on this CD. Two distinct sets of work which formed this multilayered and fascinating album. Graphic
design: David Jackman. Graphics engineer: Jonathan Coleclough. Edition of 600 copies in full colour 4-panel digisleeve.

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Entry 3:15
Tocsin -6 Thru +2 (cont’d)

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Entry 3:16
Die Hennen Zähne
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Die Stadt :: DS57/DS66
Country :: Year Germany :: December 2005
Edition
600 copies in gloss-finish miniature 3” digipack
Tracks Die Kralle (2:53) :: Die Hennen Zähne (5:18) :: Maus (7:13) :: Kazi (2:54)
Label Press Release ::
A four track 3” (mini) CD combining the never released two 10inch's 'Maus' (DS57) and 'Die Hennen Zähne'
(DS66). 'Die Hennen Zähne' opens with 'Die Kralle' actually a David Jackman track from his archive recorded in
the early 1980's. Next is the title track 'Die Hennen Zähne', a joyful noise not unlike some of the TNB/Organum
material incl. the sound of broken glass and Tibetan horns, best to be experienced LOUD. 'Maus' is the centre
piece of this mini album and typical 'old school' Organum. The album closes with the more quiet and haunting
'Kazi', a live improvisation featuring collaborator's Michael Prime and Emma O'Bong. Digipack. 600 copies.
Total playing time: 18:18 min.

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Entry 3:17
Sanctus
Artist
Organum
Label :: Cat# Robot :: RR-35
Country :: Year USA :: December 2005
Edition
600 copies
Tracks
Sanctus I :: Sanctus II :: Sanctus III :: Sanctus IV
Label Press Release ::
The first album in a proposed trilogy of new material. Sanctus represents the new architecture of the Organum
sound. Recorded utilizing an implicit graphic score, the album is comprised of four discrete parts, each a variant
of the others. These are not parts as in a movement or continuation of the composition, but rather four distinct
audio canvases that represent a continuum of the elements at large. Composed in the spirit of the early
Organum material, David Jackman has resurrected the drone-based, percussive turbulence of earlier years
with a distinct new form of compositional systems. These new systems are scored for grand piano, Hammond
organ, tower bell, and gong. While each element retains its distinct acoustic quality, the whole of each piece
resonates the art of its totality. The results convey an ecstatic sense of presence, vast expanse, and, ultimately,
infinitude.
Note that the trilogy of release was cancelled at the request of David Jackman.