Ranaldo / O’Rourke / Heemann - Bloomington, Indiana / Autumn
 

Stumbled upon this on eBay, couldn't find any info elsewhere. Apparently out on Drag City sub label "Streamline" on April 12.

Lee Ranaldo / Jim O’Rourke / Christoph Heemann
‘Bloomington, Indiana’ / ‘Autumn’
LP – ST1027

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).

Now it's up on the Drag City site:

http://www.dragcity.com/products/blo...indiana-autumn

New release date 4/20/10

thanks!

any one pick this up?
im curious... and BROKEEEEEE!!!!!

Mine has shipped to me.

want it!

got mine as well.

for how much? researched and found it for 17 (euro) bucks...worth?

LEE RANALDO/JIM O'ROURKE/CHRISTOPH HEEMANN - Bloomington, Indiana...Autumn (Streamline 1027; Germany) 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 electro-acoustic 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)."
"Well then - a painting or a piece of statuary is a thing outside the human life, your life. It is an emotional experience only. It has actually nothing to do with you yourself. You could live very well the rest of your life if you never saw it again, although you would remember it every now and then the ache would come again at the memory of it. But imagine a form of life, a culture, a way of life, a way you yourself could live, so beautiful that it made you ache just like the painting, but a thousand-fold more so..."
LP $17

from Downtown Music Gallery/ NYC

bump.

love that record.

Yes, it's one of the more overlooked and listenable items in Lee's discography.

"listenable"...
I like that!
L

i always incorporate samples of it into my mixes (if i am doing any). it always sounds cool and with almost anything.

besides, lyric-wise? wow.

Can we please hear one of these mixes?

hehe, ufff, it is very lo-fi at the mom., i need more gear and actually i haven't record much of my freakouts either.


but i will think of it, might record something in future and post link.