From the Caves of the Iron Mountain is a music album by Tony Levin

Tony Levin

Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

, Jerry Marotta

Jerry Marotta

Jerry Marotta is a drummer currently residing in Woodstock, New York. He is the brother of Rick Marotta, who is also a well-known drummer and composer....

 and Steve Gorn

Steve Gorn

Steve Gorn is a master bamboo flautist and saxophone player.Gorn has performed Indian classical music, jazz and new American music on the bansuri bamboo flute and soprano saxophone in concerts and festivals throughout the world...

 released in 1997 on Papa Bear Records.

The album was recorded inside the Widow Jane Mine in the Catskill Mountains

Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, an area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 by Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.He has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Brazilian Girls, Sheryl Crow, November 2nd, Travis, Marike...

 using a binaural

Binaural recording

Binaural recording is a method of recording sound that uses two microphones, arranged with the intent to create a 3-D stereo sound sensation for the listener of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments. This effect is often created using a technique known as "Dummy head...

 microphone setup. The recording technique makes the album very enjoyable when listening with headphones.

The instruments featured on this album include Chapman Stick

Chapman Stick

The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...

, NS electric upright bass, various reed

Woodwind instrument

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator to vibrate...

 and East Indian flute instruments, a range of percussion instrument

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

s and even a short passage of squeezebox

Squeezebox

The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina...

played by Jerry Marotta.

Track listing

1. "Approaching the Cavern" - 1:26
2. "Man Walking from A to B" - 3:40
3. "In the Caves of the Iron Mountain" - 3:35
4. "Drumming on Water" - 3:30
5. "Devil's Kitchen" - 3:50
6. "Shakers in Five" - 3:54
7. "Glass Beads" - 3:26
8. "Joyous Lake" - 2:35
9. "Catskill Gallery" - 8:06
10. "Shepherd's song" - 3:37
11. "Catacombs" - 4:17
12. "Magic Meadow" - 3:44
13. "The Widow Jane Mine" - 3:11
14. "Squeeze Box" - 1:02