Artist: Elodie Lauten
Album: Orchestre Modern
GENRE...: Avantgarde
LABEL...: Rockin' Horse SCENE DATE.: 2015-01-04
bITRATE.: 242 kbps avg STORE DATE.: 1981-00-00
ENCODER.: LAME 3.98.4 -V 0 TRACKS.....: 4
SiZE....: 39.11MB SOURCE.....: LP
- TRACKLIST
1 All American Boy 3:34
2 Jesus, Puerto-Rican Boxing 4:07
Champion
3 Chase / DΘtective PrivΘ 4:32
4 Mister Pip 10:09
Total Playtime: 22:22
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elodie_Lauten
- NOTES
Killer experimental no-wave rarity, just borrowed from my friend Adam P, who
wrote this:
Elodie Lauten was born in 1950 in Paris, France, the daughter of jazz
musician Errol Parker. In her early twenties, she moved to New York City and
soon befriended Allan Ginsberg. She later composed a setting of his poems
entitled Walking in New York. Through Ginsberg, Lauten also became close
friends with Arthur Russell. They played on each others records and
sometimes performed together as The Singing Tractors. Check out the song In
the Light of the Miracle for amazing record of their collaboration. A couple
of her early piano-based records from the 1980Æs have been recently
reissued, but Orchestre Modern is from 1981, right before she shifted her
focus from songwriting to composition. Co-produced by Alan Vega, this
self-released EP finds Lauten in experimental rock band mode on side 1,
ending with my favorite track, a french/english hybrid mystery titled
Chase/DΘtective PrivΘ. The disc concludes on side two with an extended
reggae jam called Mister Pip, which is mindblowingly great.