Ranaldo, Lee / Jim O’rourke / Christoph Heemann / Bloomington, Indiana... Autumn

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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)... No Export to Europe. (STREET DATE - 4/20/2010)

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