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Glacial Trio: On Jones Beach LP
Glacial Trio: On Jones Beach LP

The first release by Glacial Trio (Lee Ranaldo: gtrs, Tony Buck: drums, David Watson: bagpipes/gtr), on the Three Lobed record label. This is a vinyl LP in silkscreened cover in an edition of 750 copies. LP includes download of the full track and three additional live cuts. Contrary to the title of this LP, this […]

TEXT OF LIGHT
TEXT OF LIGHT

The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage’s film ‘Text of Light’ was the premiere performance and namesake of the group). The original premise was to improvise (not […]

Text of Light live in LA, March 2010
Text of Light live in LA, March 2010

This short film by Steven Andrew Garcia was shot March 10, 2010 at the Cinefamily Silent Movie Theatre in LA over the course of 2 sets by Text of Light, which for these shows was Ulrich Krieger, Alan Licht, Lee Ranaldo.   Another clip, found on the web, from the same shows, originally uploaded by […]

Text of Light “Press Kit”
Text of Light "Press Kit"

Here’s a recent presskit with some notes and bios and press clippings/commentary/photos that we’ve compiled.    

ToL Live at Latvian House, Toronto 102707
ToL Live at Latvian House, Toronto 102707

Text of Light at ‘Soundplay’ in Toronto at the Latvian House, October 27, 2007.  Shot by JoL Thomson.  A 12 minute version of this video toured in Sonic Youth’s Museum Show, “Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix” which began in the summer of 2008. Below is a shorter 6 minute version.