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previous artist: primordial undermind		there are 3 titles featuring stephen prina in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: prince far i

$10.85

back in stock as of
august 25th, 2008

first in stock on
august 25th, 2006

blue chopsticks (usa) #bc 05 cd

david grubbs “the coxcomb • avocado orange” compact disc

the coxcomb (16:59)
avocado orange (10:28)

blue chopsticks press release...

david grubbs, the coxcomb / avocado orange - bc5 cd

in the summer of 1998, having enough clay left over from his drag city solo debut the thicket, david grubbs set out to fashion a companion piece. so he went to paris. responding to the invitation of quentin rollet and noël akchoté to make an lp for their rectangle label, grubbs penned "the coxcomb," an adaptation in song of stephen crane's short story "the blue hotel." this seventeen- minute morität is scored for three voices: the narrator (stephen prina, still stoked from his drag city debut, push comes to love); the swede (grubbs, wild-eyed and singing through gritted teeth); and the cowboy (played to perfection by deep-voiced sasha andrès, singer of the group héliogabale). grubbs's guitar yarn is fleshed out by the saloon band of didier petit (cello, voice), yves robert (trombone), thierry madiot (bass trombone), and quentin rollet (alto sax). the original lp and picture-disc lp version of the coxcomb featured as its b-side "aux noctambules," a gentle concentration-jam featuring noël akchoté on electric guitar and grubbs making definitive use of the hohner organa. "aux noctambules" has since entered the digital domain as a 3" cd from rectangle. in its place is "avocado orange" - this time from the same clay as grubbs's the spectrum between -- a full-group reworking of his solo piece "onion orange." it features akchoté and rollet as well as the dual percussion team of john mcentire and dan brown. albert oehlen has revised his original cover artwork, providing harrowing punctuation to the project. (released december 2000)

$12.96

back in stock as of
february 16th, 2007

first in stock on
december 6th, 2006

threads:
modern-composition
minimalism-drones
concert-recordings

cortical foundation (usa) #corti 24 cd
organ of corti (united states) #corti 24 cd

stephen prina “vinyl ii” compact disc

take 1 (20:49)
take 2 (20:41)
take 3 (20:47)

three “takes” of the score to stephen prina’s 2000 film “vinyl ii.”

cortical foundation press release...

“for me, those are the only two things that exist -- drones and love songs.” --stephen prina, purple.

...

“vinyl ii is a 16mm film commissioned on the occasion of departures: 11 artists at the getty. the result is twenty one and a half minutes of interlaced references, from seventeenth century devotional painting to andy warhol's 1965 film vinyl, which is a demented, black humored takeoff on anthony burgess's novel a clockwork orange [there are a total of 3 takes, for approximately 63 minutes of music].”

“and what about the music, the score, prina's entrance as singer? from the casting of the musicians -- affectless, nonprofessional actors that resemble bresson's 'models' --to the composition of the multipart, rigidly symmetrical piece of music, the two middle sections of which sound like unwritten songs by the beatles, brian wilson, burt bacharach, even schumann, everything seems extraordinarily decisive.”

"…prina much prefers the appellation "cultural producer" to "artist," valuing the special force and clumsiness of the term—a term that lends itself to the problematization of cultural expectations and the ideological maneuvers involved in fulfilling them. what is expected? by whom and why? what is the nature of the disappointment that results from the mismatch between a name and an image, a signature and a style? and what does it look like when prina makes such a disappointment productive?"

--tom holert.

...

since 1994, stephen prina has recorded and performed with the red krayola, appearing on amor and language, hazel, and fingerpainting. push comes to love, 1998, is his solo pop record, co-produced by david grubbs and jim o'rourke, available on drag city.

$13.41

back in stock as of
december 1st, 2011

first in stock on
august 25th, 2008

drag city (usa) #dc 147 cd

stephen prina “push comes to love” compact disc

cums for shove
the devil, probably
too strong
the sobriquet
no one calls me a friend
trevor
the achiever
little lips
community
this is not it
hand in glove

1999 release ; song-based solo album from interdisciplinary audio/visual artist stephen prina, produced by the gastr del sol team of jim o’rourke and david grubbs ... one track features lyrics by dennis cooper ...

drag city press release...

in the spirit of those great la pop records of the seventies (notably the work of steely dan) these combined talents [lyrics: david grubbs, mayo thompson, dennis cooper, lynn tillman, etc.; production: grubbs & jim o'rourke; drums & vocals: john mcentire & sam prekop] have produced further expansions and refinements to the world of breezy, intellectually informed pop music. prina's own keyboard and guitar work have been augmented with synthesizer, pedal steel, cornet and a smooth rhythm section of bass, drums and, occasionally, a drum machine.

like the classical, pure vocalists who have come before him (sinatra, streisand, joni mitchell, morrissey, manson), prina wraps his voice around the diverse material, presenting an lp as the soundtrack for every man, whether that man is a woman, an academic, a performance artist, a homeowner, a lover, somebody's stepson, 'mr. generosity,' or you.

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