Conductor – Krzysztof Penderecki (tracks: 1, 6), Marek Moś (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 15)
Coordinator [Studio] – Leszek Iwaniuk
Design – Dustin Stanton
Engineer – Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz, Piotr Witkowski (2)
Engineer [Consultant] – Graeme Stewart
Liner Notes – Ronen Givony
Orchestra – Aukso Orchestra*
Producer – Filip Berkowicz, Michał Merczyński
Producer [Associate] – Barbara Orzechowska
Artwork – Shin Katan

Merge Records will release M. Ward’s A Wasteland Companion, on April 10th 2012.
The album, consisting of 12 stunning tracks, was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). Ward’s honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America’s true musical treasures and A Wasteland Companion features some of the finest songwriting and most striking delivery of his career. With each and every recording Ward finds new ways to make the colors of his songwriting palate sparkle and his dexterous skills as producer, arranger, guitarist and singer seem to burst into even brighter bloom on each release.
A Wasteland Companion features the talents of M Ward (piano, guitars, voice, production), Mike Coykendall (percussion, bass), Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb (piano), John Parish (percussion, marimba), Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis (organ), Susan Sanchez (vocals), She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel (vocals), Jordan Hudson (percussion), Adam Selzer (bass), Nathan “JR” Andersen (piano), Scott McPherson (percussion), Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley (percussion), Dr Dog’s Tobey Leaman (bass), Devotchka’s Tom Hagerman (strings), Oakely Hall’s Rachel Cox (vocals), Amanda Lawrence (violin), John Graboff (pedal steel) and Tyler Tornfelt (bass). The recording utilized eight engineers, including Tom Schick (Rufus Wainwright) and John Parish (PJ Harvey).

Trashy fun, less sugary than The Like, punkier, grungier and less dark than The Raveonettes, although the name, the distorted guitars and the pop sensibilities scream for that comparison. Songs like "Message of Love" sound actually like Le Butcherettes, but with a fuller wall of sound. It doesn't make for an easy listening, given the sometimes almost hysterical edge, but fans of this kind of music won't be disappointed.

Emotion is kind of the thing that drives the psychedelic peppy pop created by the oft-effervescent Oberhofer. Like th e brain child of Brian Wilson and Descartes, he s fixated on the idea of his philosophically minded, energetic melodic romps making people happy-mostly because it s all he can bear to think about. Referring to his music in total as a time capsule of exactly how I m feeling at a given moment , each song is a clear unrestrained look inside the Oberhofer vault. And, between Like Gold , a reflection on two magical weeks spent with a first love that inadvertently kicked off his current project, Away From U , an upbeat goodbye whose commercial sync garnered enough money to move out of his addict-filled apartment and the Gotta Go , the interpretation of bidding a woman adieu while also saying goodbye to your old process of getting work done, his heart s on his sleeve, on paper, and all over everything he creates.