Laurie Anderson: Big Science [Vinyl 1LP]

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2021-04-09
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
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Editor's Info:
Laurie Anderson’s 1982 debut album,Big Science, will return to vinyl for the first time in thirty years with a new red vinyl edition due April 9 on Nonesuch Records. The vinyl includes the re-mastered original album first released on CD for the 25th anniversary of Big Scienceon Nonesuch in 2007.
In the early 1980s, Laurie Anderson was already respected as a conceptual artist and composer, adept at employing gear both high-tech and homemade in her often violin-based pieces, and she was a familiar figure in the cross-pollinating, Lower Manhattan music-visual art-performance circles from which Philip Glass and David Byrne also emerged.
While working on her now-legendary seven-hour performance art/theater piece United States, Part I–IV, which premiered over two nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 1983, she cut the spare “O Superman (For Massenet)," an electronic-age update of nineteenth century French operatic composer Jules Massenet’s aria “O Souverain,” for the tiny New York City indie label 110 Records. In the UK, DJ John Peel picked up a copy of this very limited-edition 33? RPM 7” and spun the eight-minute-plus track on BBC Radio 1. The exposure resulted in an unlikely number two hit, lots of attention in the American press, and a worldwide deal with Warner Bros. Records.

muzycy
Laurie Anderson – vocals, vocoder, Farfisa organ, percussion, Oberheim OB-Xa, sticks, violins, electronics, keyboards, handclaps, whistling, marimba, cover artwork
Roma Baran – Farfisa bass, glass harmonica, sticks, handclaps, Casiotone, accordion, whistling
Perry Hoberman – bottles and sticks, handclaps, flute, saxophone, piccolo, backing vocals, assistant producer, art direction
Bill Obrecht – alto saxophone
Peter Gordon – clarinet, tenor saxophone
David Van Tieghem – drums, rototoms, timpani, marimba, percussion

Guests:
Rufus Harley – bagpipes on 3
Chuck Fisher – alto and tenor saxophone on 7
Richard Cohen – b-flat clarinet on 7, e-flat clarinet on 7, bass clarinet on 7, bassoon on 7, baritone saxophone on 7
Leanne Ungar – engineer, backing vocals on 7
George E. Lewis – trombones


utwory:
1. From the Air
2. Big Science
3. Sweaters
4. Walking & Falling
5. Born, Never Asked
6. O Superman (For Massenet)
7. Example #22
8. Let X=X
9. It Tango

wydano: 2021-04-09
more info: www.nonesuch.com
more info2: www.laurieanderson.com