State of the Union

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Annotation

Digital Remix, Editing and Assembly at Studio zOaR.

Track 1.15 - Recorded & Mixed at Motherwest Studio, NYC.
Track 1.17 - Recorded 4-Trk in Rebecca's kitchen.
Track 1.18 - Written Summer/Fall 1995.
Track 1.23 - Text from Constitution and Declaration of Independents.
Track 1.25 - Excerpt from "WACO: The Rock Opera". Recorded at Moldy Basement Studio, Madison, WI. 1993.
Track 1.36 - On location recordings at the Sealy Bad Factory, CA 1995.
Track 1.40 - Recorded in Zurich, 12/12/90 at Stutz.
Track 1.41 - Recorded at Rigglius Studios.
Track 1.43 - Recorded at Harmonic Ranch. Mixed at Harold Dessau.
Track 1.46 - Recorded at Donny Fury's.
Track 1.47 - National anthem of the African National Congress. Spoken text adapted from the ANC Freedom Charter.
Track 1.50 - Recorded at John Blackford Studio.
Track 1.51 - Recorded live at the Knitting Factory.
Track 1.56 - Mixed at OAO Brooklyn.
Track 1.61 - Recording date unknown.
Track 1.67 - Recorded at CBGB 10/80.
Track 1.71 - Recorded at OAO, Brooklyn.

Track 2.03 - Recorded at RareBookRoom, Brooklyn. Text based on Charles Ives' preamble to his "Suggestion for a 20th Ammendment" of 1920. P/C Basnouph Noupha.
Track 2.10 - Selection from the book "Ambient".
Track 2.23 - From the WW2 animated short subject "Don't Scrap Freedom" by Philip W. Schreck.
Track 2.24 - Recorded at Califas Studio, Corvallis, OR.
Track 2.37 - Written for a piece called "No, You Are Not Alone", presented at Dance Theatre Workshop in 1994 and is now a staple for Twisted Tutu, Eve Beglarian's duo with keyboard player Kathleen Supové.
Track 2.45 - Acknowledgements: Jim Morrison, Jesus Christ Superstar, Madonna, Robert Plant, John Bonham, Patti Smith, Unidentified radio evangelist and the lost soul who called him.
Track 2.50 - Created from four tracks of vocal improvisation sung into pitch->MIDI converter and then processed extensively. Recorded at Studio PASS.
Track 2.52 - Recorded at Studio PASS.
Track 2.53 - Recorded at Studio PASS.
Track 2.54 - Recorded at Vital.
Track 2.60 - Recorded at the B's.
Track 2.62 - Features Basil Rathbone reading from "The Facts in the Case of M. Waldemar".
Track 2.69 - Recorded at OAO, Brooklyn.
Track 2.76 - Recorded at A7 Club.

All Music Composed by the Individual Artists unless otherwise noted.

Annotation last modified on 2023-11-13 06:00 UTC.

Tracklist

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CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Hymn
John Duncan1:13
2Dear Friend
Tricia Worden0:54
3Life Is Shorter
Ui1:10
4Politica
Queen Esther1:08
5Ayurveda
Painkiller0:58
6America, It Was a Beautiful Idea
Penny Arcade1:09
7Indians Not Taxed and Others
Chris Haskett1:10
8Not Me
Anne Elliott1:11
9Covalence
BardEvansPugliese1:01
10The Traveler
Steve Piccolo1:02
11Prolongate
Circuit Redux1:03
12Through a Tube
Jaron Lanier1:00
13Why I Don't Like Wyoming
Maggie Estep1:01
14Kitsch
Frank Rothkamm1:02
15Hogswash
Happy Boy1:02
16Subsector A
J.F. Coleman1:04
17Rude Awkening, Part 2
Rebecca Moore1:14
18Sin Capish
Allen Ginsberg1:00
19A Voice in the Forest
Paul deMarinis1:06
20Outskirts of Beatrice
Lenny Kaye1:03
219.1.95
Norman Yamada1:03
22Vorticities
DJ Spooky1:05
23Laying Into the People
Mark Helias1:02
24Procrustics
Matthew Ostrowski1:04
25Van Tatum
Mark De Gli Antoni1:01
26Building a Compound
Pharmacy Lounge1:11
27Prelude to a Kiss
Tracie Morris1:06
28Dipthong
Andrea Parkins1:05
29Ghazal by Mawlana Jalaloddin Rumi
Hakim Bey0:59
30Blue Ox
Reed Ghazala1:00
31The Tormentrix
Sim Cain1:25
32Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep
Cameron Allen / Ahrin Mishan1:09
33Woke Up With Leather
Machine Gun1:01
34Circulate All Sensation
Ebon Fisher1:02
35The Writer
The Hound1:13
36Place Study #3
Lauren Weinger1:05
37Nontheory
DJ Olive1:07
38Non-Verbal News
David Weinstein1:00
39Hey George
Barbara Barg1:00
40Westworld
Borbetomagus & Voice Crack1:03
41Patchwork Quilt for Those Now Gone
Soldier String Quartet0:55
42Backlash
Margot Mifflin1:03
43The Whole World Turned Upside Down
Krackhouse0:53
44Frankspeech / Tongue & Groove
Ikue Mori0:59
45Patches '91
Anthony Coleman0:55
46Role Model
God Is My Co-Pilot0:55
47Nkosi Sikelel 'I Afrika
arranger:
Lois V. Vierk
recording of:
Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika (former national anthem of Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa)
anthem of:
Zambia (from 1964-10-24 until 1973-09-14), Namibia (from 1990-03-21 until 1991-12-17) and South Africa (from 1994-05-10 until 1997-10-10)
lyricist and composer:
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (in 1897)
part of:
The Funeral (September 25, 1977)
Lois V. Vierk & Ngoneni Cele1:07
48Motherless Child
Marc Ribot1:05
49American Spit Poems
Vicki Stansbury0:57
50Keystone Model CC-16
GenKen Montgomery1:04
51Cowlick Pussyman
John Zorn & Yamatsuke Eye1:07
52Overture for the 90's
David Fulton1:05
53Tropical Boubou
Nicolas Collins0:52
54Murk
Marc Sloan1:21
55Good Morning Dear
John Lurie1:04
56One Minute
Felipe Orrego1:04
57Like a Baby
Peter Blegvad & John Greaves1:01
58A Small Motion
Diana Meckley1:02
59Cornered
Bill Obrecht1:10
60May
Pulsallama1:43
61As Told to Andrew Zev Weinstein
Bartok Lieberman0:36
62Misery Loop
Michael Boom0:43
63Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free
Squat Theatre1:29
64Rough Translations Will Be Provided for the Ancient Inscriptions
A.C. Chubb0:50
65What's to Come
Gerry Lindhal1:00
66Due Pay To
Arto Lindsay & Toni Nogueira1:05
67Standing in the Need of Prayer
Social Climbers1:00
68F Troop
Sonorexia0:57
69My Town
Tim Wright1:00
70Address
Spalding Gray1:23
71No Regrets
Thi-Linh Le1:18
CD 2

Credits

Release

photography:Janene Higgins
producer:Elliott Sharp (US musician & composer)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/485543 [info]
ASIN:US: B000001B77 [info]