Matrikamantra

Matrikamantra is a 2-CD album by the singer-songwriter Lydia Lunch, first released on October 31, 1997 by Atavistic/Figurehead Records in 1997 (ALP94CD), and a year later in Germany through Crippled Dick Hot Wax! (CDHW 050). The first disc is a studio album that contains new material, while the second disc contains a live performance recorded at Palace Acropolis in 1997.

Matrikamantra
Studio album and Live album by Lydia Lunch
Released	October 31, 1997
Recorded	Harbinger House, New York March 1, 1997 at Palace Acropolis, Prague, Czech Republic
Genre	Post-punk
Length	96:31
Label	Atavistic/Figurehead Records (1997) Crippled Dick Hot Wax! (1998)
Producer	Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch chronology
Shotgun Wedding (1991) Matrikamantra (1997) Widowspeak (1998)

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Lydia Lunch; all music is composed by Joseph Budenholzer

Disc one (Harbinger House)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Need to Feed"	3:51
2.	"Inverted Dream"	2:33
3.	"Disease of the Night"	5:45
4.	"Psychic Anthropology"	3:46
5.	"Cesspool Called History"	5:01
6.	"Dread"	4:25
7.	"Escape"	2:50
8.	"Itch"	2:40
9.	"Solo Mystico"	2:46
10.	"Lethe"	3:26
11.	"In Spite of God"	2:56
12.	"Archives of Blood"	2:55
13.	"Outpatients"	5:22

Disc two (Live in Prague)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro/World of Whispers"	8:30
2.	"Cesspool Called History"	5:18
3.	"Gravediggers of the Future"	5:45
4.	"Need to Feed"	6:36
5.	"Perfumed Corpses"	6:29
6.	"Disease of the Night"	4:33
7.	"In Spite of God/Vortex"	11:12
8.	"Hermones"	3:50
9.	"Dread"	5:44
10.	"Outpatients/Exit"	9:23

Personnel

Harbinger House

• Joseph Budenholzer – sound design
• Joan Dalin – violin
• Paul Geluso – mastering
• Lydia Lunch – vocals
• Laura Rogers – flute
• Greg Shakar – clarinet, mastering

Live in Prague

• Joseph Budenholzer – sound design
• Tomáš Hadrava – mixing
• Kamilsky – bass guitar, mastering, mixing
• Lydia Lunch – vocals
• Colin Stuart – mastering, mixing
• Mr. Zak – mastering