Un Pranzo Favoloso
 

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Un Pranzo Favoloso
January 12, 2007

Another Text of Light release will be available this January: "After the release of Deison / Thurston Moore limited 7" on our old label Sin Organisation some years ago , we're proud to announce the new CD album of TEXT OF LIGHT, featuring another musician from Sonic Youth's family, Lee Ranaldo. "Un Pranzo Favoloso" has been recorded on 26th May 2005 at Auditorium Concordia in Pordenone (Italy) during the "Schermo Sonoro - Cinemazero" festival. In this incredible concert Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Tim Barnes and Ulrich Krieger played on Stan Brakhage experimental movies; the band explores the concept of soundtrack and creates something new out of it, a "sonic continuum" between music and the movies, in which Stan Brackage's images become sounds. Amazing".



Moshe

aargh, so soon? i just ordered that rotterdam1 cd last week; it hasn't even arrived yet.

plus, soon that text of light split-cd with my cat is an alien also comes out... stop it lee! go working on that solo album on ecstatic peace!

TEXT OF LIGHT (Tonight) Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and Alan Licht offer a guitar soundtrack to photographs and films by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus principal, and also improvise musical accompaniment to avant-garde films by Stan Brakhage and others. The performance is presented by the Whitney Museum in conjunction with an exhibition, “Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World,” on view until Jan. 21. At 7:30, 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, (212) 570-3676, whitney.org; free with pay-what-you wish admission to the museum, after 6. (Sisario)

Does anyone know the release date for this? Is it out yet? Has anyone found stockists?

Questions, questions, questions...

yes, thanks for info and keep us updated moshe.

http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=12657

Left: Text of Light's Lee Ranaldo. Right: Patti Smith. (All photos: Brian Sholis)


For a Thursday-night program enigmatically promoted as “an evening of words and song,” Patti Smith took just the length of a poem to set the evening’s tone, letting us in on the joke: “Should I clap quiet, because it’s a poem?” she wondered along with the reverent audience in the well-lit confines of the Robert Miller Gallery. “What I usually do,” she finished, taking mercy, “is nothing.” She had arrived calm, breaking off one moment onstage to hug her late-arriving daughter, Jesse, another to applaud the inventor of the lens (she was sporting new glasses). Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame only a few days prior, Smith had packed the gallery beyond what it could reasonably hold, and we, who had done neither of those things, sought her guidance.
Smith wished for an evening “like those from the '50s I used to read about” and told stories about the past: Peggy Guggenheim and Brancusi and Sam Wagstaff, names that loomed large on such bygone nights. She lauded the Robert Miller Gallery for its “old-fashioned and generous gesture” to have printed booklets of her poetry and photographs to commemorate the event. But comparisons to distant days risked hagiography. Were we there because of who Smith had been or who she was now, for what evenings used to be or how they might be today?
By way of answer, Smith sang songs new and old alongside her longtime bandmate Lenny Kaye. They were interspersed with long passages of poetry, the most impressive of which—“The Sword of God,” prologue to her epic in progress A Pythagorean Traveler, also the title of her exhibition at the gallery—encompassed not just the greater share of the evening but also the show’s cool, desultory black-and-white photographs. Marble statues, found and shot in far-off countries, became “fellas”; her casual asides between poetry and song became the performance itself (“much longer than the poems,” she admitted). All was reduced to her vernacular. The genteel surroundings and her casual air cloaked only for so long the fact that we would not be let off the hook or allowed to dissent from her version of the story: The night would be exactly the kind of thing people remembered because she wouldn’t let it be otherwise.

Left: Text of Light's Alan Licht. Right: Jesse Smith.


Less momentous, although just as crowded, was the following evening’s performance at the Whitney, where Text of Light—on Friday, a trio of Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, New York–based musician and writer Alan Licht, and percussionist Tim Barnes, with Leah Singer as guest projectionist—performed alongside slides and film by László Moholy-Nagy. The around-the-block free-Friday-night queue had crashed what was clearly meant to have been an intimate occasion, and had ushers reassuring those to whom the fire code denied entry: “I’ve attended enough of these to know there’ll be newcomers, and they don’t usually stick around long.”
Indeed, the contents of the second-floor gallery bordered on the ridiculous: elderly women plugging their ears, grown men in suits sitting cross-legged on the carpet, a wheelchair-bound couple in front of me eyeing the exits in vain for enough space to escape.
The performance began with Moholy-Nagy’s Light Play: Black-White-Grey, 1930, a film inspired by his kinetic sculpture Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1928–30, present and on hand to rotate and spin variegated shadows. Out from a corner, drenched in echo, Text of Light’s improv was not quite: The band’s sound was composed, measured, emotionally coordinated with Singer’s minimal slide manipulation. Licht, using a guitar and a chain of effects pedals, found patterns—then layered them or let them go as diffuse as blurry light. Ranaldo and Barnes bowed their instruments until Barnes’s cymbals hummed alongside Ranaldo’s trademark low-grade feedback.
In the tight space, bass rebounded off the walls. Text of Light’s hypersensitive microphones brought the most incidental noise to bear, so that those streaming for the exits began to play their part, too, slamming doors that reverberated after they were gone. An hour after the band began it was over, leaving afterimages as vivid as the Josef Albers squares that hung down the hall.



Left: Text of Light's Tim Barnes. Right: Patti Smith bandmate Jay Dee Daugherty.

always digging the goods, thank you for that moshe.

Aaaagh! I want this! Why won't finalmuzik answer my emails????

^ when it comes to Lee's side projects, sonicl acts just like a baby :)

I don't enjoy throwing these tantrums, you know!

I blame Moshe, he tells us about these things far too far in advance. :p

No! It'll be my secret, 'cos you called me a baby!

You've hurt my feelings now. I'm sulking.

same here.
can you tell me where and when i can purchase it, once you know? please.

Email from Finalmuzik:

"thank you for writing and for your order.
Text Of Light CD will be available next week.
To order one copy of it, please send eu 17,00 via paypal to "finalmuzik (at) alice (dot) it"

The sum includes REGISTERED mail to the U.K.

Also please write us a e-mail with your address to send the parcel, thank you!

I hope to hear from you soon,
Best Regards,

Gianfranco Santoro | Final Muzik"

Another email from FinalMuzik:

FINAL MUZIK presents:
TEXT OF LIGHT

"Un Pranzo Favoloso / A Fabulous Lunch" CD (FM05)

Recorded and mastered by Teho Teardo, the CD album "Un Pranzo Favoloso / A Fabulous Lunch" of TEXT OF LIGHT is NOW AVAILABLE.

Cat. Number: FM05.

“Un Pranzo Favoloso" has been recorded live on 26th May 2005 at Auditorium Concordia in Pordenone (Italy) during the "Schermo Sonoro - Cinemazero" festival. In this incredible concert Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, Tim Barnes and Ulrich Krieger played on Stan Brakhage experimental movies; the band explores the concept of soundtrack and creates something new out of it, a "sonic continuum" between music and the movies, in which Stan Brackage's images become sounds. The result is amazing.

"Synchronicity, not synchronization / Motion, not film / Sound, not soundtrack / Action, not concert"

Alan Licht: guitar | Lee Ranaldo: guitar, electronics | Ulrich Krieger: sax, sax-tronics | Tim Barnes: drums, percussions, electronics.

Limited edition: 1.500 copies in beautiful digi-sleeve. Many Thanx to: Teho Teardo, Cinemazero, Text Of Light.

To order one copy of "Un Pranzo Favoloso": euro 17,00 postpaid (registered mail only ) everywhere. Paypal to: finalmuzik@alice.it / To order more copies: please write for details. Thank You. Preordered copies will be shipped this weekend.

more info, sounds and releases: www.finalmuzik.com | www.myspace.com/finalmuzik

All The Best,
Gianfranco Santoro & Deison | Final Muzik

Thanks Mr. L.

thanks.
just have to check out, what's the story with that paypal thing.

*edit*
i know what paypal is. it's not that horrible as it sounds.
i've sent money to their email (like), so i think i've ordered it.

Final Muzic have some problems with their regular email account . For this period only write to finalmuzik@libero.it, for both info and to place orders

just got my copy yesterday.
it's not that great like metal box in my opinion, but still very good. It's just that sax in this one is really uprfont, sometime.

i'm going listen to it again today.

This digi pack is limited to 1500 only, so hurry up!