Beneath the Watchful Eyes is the fifteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic

Arthur Loves Plastic

Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...

 and was released in 2007.

Awards

Beneath the Watchful Eyes won the 2007 Wammie

Washington Area Music Awards

The Washington Area Music Awards are a music award for Washington, D.C. area performers, issued by the Washington Area Music Association . The awards are issued at an annual awards program....

 for Best Recording in the Electronica Category. In the 2009 Just Plain Folks

Just Plain Folks Music Organization

Just Plain Folks Music Organization is a website and community founded by Brian Austin Whitney with the intent of helping anyone involved in the music industry to network, share their experiences, build relationships, and grow...

 Music Awards the track "Women Alone" was nominated in the Techno Song category.

Audio previews

Six tracks from the album can be previewed in their entirety or downloaded for free from the Arthur Loves Plastic - The Tapegerm Collective music page and the Arthur Loves Plastic - Big Contact music podcast.

Track listing

Personnel

• Produced by Bev Stanton
  Arthur Loves Plastic
  Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...
  
   in the Flamingo Room, Silver Spring
  Silver Spring, Maryland
  Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
  
  , MD
  Maryland
  Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
  
  .

Additional musicians

• Heavy Lids - Featuring
  Guest appearance
  In show business , a guest appearance is a participation of an outsider performer , usually called guest artist , in an event , i.e., the participation of a performer which does not belong to the regular crew In performance...
  
   (1, 15)
• Lisa Moscatiello
  Lisa Moscatiello
  Lisa Moscatiello is an American singer who is part of the Washington, DC area music scene. She is listed in Music Hound's Folk: Essential Album Guide, and is most often categorized as a folk vocalist...
  
   - Vocals (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)
• Virus Factory - Loops
  Music loop
  In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...
  
   (3) ^*
• Lisa Moscatiello - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (5, 8)
• Mental Anguish - Loops (7, 13) ^*
• Cystem - Guitar Loop (9, 14) ^*
• Eric Wenberg
  Emmet swimming
  Emmet Swimming is a rock band from Fairfax, Virginia that was formed in 1990 at George Mason University. The band's name is a misspelled reference to Emmett Till, who died after being shot and thrown into a river...
  
   - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (11)
• DJ Get Yo Fat On - Loops (12, 13) ^*
• International Garbageman - Loops (12) ^*
• Heuristics Inc. - Loops (13) ^*
• Robbie Magruder - Drum
  Drum
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  s (13)

^* Remixed for The Tapegerm Collective

Samples

• Suki Taylor - Spoken Word
  Spoken word
  Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
  
   (5)
• Sample from "'Tis the Last Rose of Summer" from American Music for Two Guitarists by Phil Mathieu and George Cavallaro (6)
• Dialogue from Nights of Love in Lesbos, a reading of The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs
  Pierre Louÿs
  Pierre Louÿs was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."-Life:...
  
   (12)
• Narration from Jason Fortuny's "Craigslist Experiment" (13)
• Dialogue from the film version of The Killing of Sister George (14)

Audio previews/downloads from Beneath the Watchful Eyes

• 3. "I'm Free" aka "Free"
• 7. "Grind" aka "The Grind"
• 9. "Afterglow" and "Afterglow"
• 12. "Women Alone"
• 13. "Let's Do It!"
• 14. "Bloody Lesbian" aka "Misfortune" and "Misfortune"