Cosmogonia

INTO THE ABYSS are:

Janis Kalifatidis: vocals, guitar, mellotron
Jens Gellner: drums
Markus „Wum" Wymetalik: guitar
Mario Lang: bass
Susanne Reinhardt:violin

and friends:

Kuday Shahinalp: ney
Julyus Golombeck: oud
Marion Maul: flute, piano
Stelios Petrakis: Cretan lyra

Sampling and Programming by Janis Kalifatidis
All songs written by INTO THE ABYSS
Lyrics by Janis Kalifatidis

Recorded, mixed and mastered at HAZELWOOD STUDIOS, Frankfurt/Main between September and December 1997.
Engineered & produced by Jan Schönewolf, Gordon Friedrich and INTO THE ABYSS.
Cover painting "Our World" by Wolfgang Klähn, 1959/1962
Booklet painting „Earth Life - Light Giving" by Wolfgang Klähn, 1963/1965/1966
Used by kind permission of the artist.
Layout designed by Mario Lang and Andrea Schmidt.

This album wouldn't have been possible without the participation of the following:
Peter Weiss, Fritz Aly, Wolfgang Klähn, Thomas Gädeke, Uwe Then, Jens Vollhardt, Arne, Frank D'Angelo, Wolfgang Volk, Micky Wiesner, Andrea Schmidt, Jannis Giannakakis, Katerina Manoussaki, Christoforos Andrikopoulos, Vassilis Sakas, all at Hazelwood, Tobias Brisch, Wolfgang Gottlieb, Hannes Hafenbrack, Sascha and Steffen (Space House Studio), Bernd Zeissler, Volkan T., Roland J., Alma Wymetalik, and of course all contributing musicians.

Further thanks goes to all friends, bands and fanzines for their faith, energy and creative thoughts.

Originally released in 1998 by Alice in... / Fiery Serpent on CD, Digipak and DLP with Gatefold Cover.