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| | | streamline (germany) #streamline 1027 lp christoph heemann / jim o’rourke / lee ranaldo “bloomington, indiana b/w autumn” long playing record - bloomington, indiana (17:56)
- autumn (17:09)
| april 2010 release ; much-needed lp covering two separate, unreleased-until-now pieces from the early-mid-90s by christoph heemann & jim o’rourke ...
the first is an “i am sitting in a room” style distillation of lee ranaldo’s voice (even just a few minutes into the piece rendered into a string of broken phonèmes, sent packing through a long metallic tube) ; something of a master-class in voice-transformation (esp. given the crude nature of era digital processes ; hasn’t aged a day in almost 2 decades) even if lee’s delivery can leave you a bit cold ...
the second is a gloriously muted canon of cyclic electronic resonance and reed-organ / hurdy gurdy drones recalling both jim’s “happy days” set and christoph’s contemporaneous work (“aftersolstice”, specifically) that ranks as one of the most goddam heartbreakingly beautiful things i’ve heard from either ... at 17 minutes it’s way to short ...
i don’t know about you guys, but any newly-unearthed recordings from jim & christoph’s “classic era” are a serious cause-célèbre around here ; this one just “does it” for me on a bunch of levels (both nostalgic & future-oriented) & should be investigated upon post-haste ... lovely, extremely reasonably priced domestic lp issue btw (w/ all the trimmings) ; highly recommended !!! |
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| lee ranaldo / jim o’rourke / christoph heemann bloomington, indiana ... autumn lp
two side-long pieces from the early 90s released here for the first time ever.
part one, may 1994: lee ranaldo lends the voice and words of his “bloomington, indiana” piece to jim o’rourke and christoph heemann for a text-based collaborative composition that turns into an electroacoustic exploration making use of ranaldo’s voice exclusively.
a critic’s remark made after a first version of this piece was premiered at a sound art festival in the netherlands that same year: “rock and roll burnout syndrome goes whistling down a dark and lonely street,” still appears as peculiar as the piece itself.
part two: “autumn,” goes back further to the time when heemann and o’rourke produced several pieces for their plastic palace people project (of which more releases are in preparation now)...
well then – a painting or a piece of statuary is a thing outside the human life, your life. it is an emotional experience only. it has actually nothing to do with you yourself. you could live very well the rest of your life if you never saw it again, although you would remember it every now and then the ache would come again at the memory of it. but imagine a form of life, a culture, a way of life, a way you yourself could live, so beautiful that it made you ache just like the painting, but a thousandfold more so... |
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