Browse by Artist: TEXT OF LIGHT

Artist:	TEXT OF LIGHT
Title:	Text of Light
Label:	DIRTER PROMOTIONS (UK)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	DPROM 058CD

"Incredible 3 CD set from Text of Light. This is the project of Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, with Alan Licht, William Hooker, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes, Ulrich Kreiger and DJ Olive. They perform live to a backdrop of Stan Brakhage films, and no set is ever the same. The first 1000 copies of this lavish set will be issued in a special metal box with the 'ToL' logo embossed on the lid, as both a tribute to, and a pastiche of PiL. The first 1000 copies will also come with a round full-colour booklet."

Artist:	TEXT OF LIGHT
Title:	Rotterdam 1
Label:	ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EDRM 410CD

"Recorded at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2005, this explosive piece from Text Of Light typifies their abilities as a vivid freeform improvisational unit. Ranaldo and Licht's measured guitar work sets a basis on which Kreiger's blaring saxtronics, Barnes' percussive explorations and DJ Olive's swirling turntable incursions can intertwine and augment one another. This piece ebbs and flows, each of the players listening intently and guiding the proceedings with disarmingly sublime yet focused intensity. Like all their recorded works to date, this piece was delivered in tandem with a live film projection -- this interaction between 20th Century abstract and
experimental film and live improvised performance at the very core of the unit." Text Of Light on Rotterdam 1 are: Alan Licht (guitar); Lee Ranaldo (guitar, electronics); Ulrich Krieger (sax, saxtronics); DJ Olive (turntables, Powerbook); Tim Barnes (drums, percussion).

Artist:	TEXT OF LIGHT
Title:	Text of Light
Label:	STARLIGHT FURNITURE
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	STAR 024CD

"Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and '60s. These should not be considered soundtracks for Brakhage's works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisation, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. On this CD the group, in various combinations, includes: Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht on guitars and devices; Christian Marclay and DJ Olive on turntables; William Hooker on drums and percussion, and Ulrich Krieger of Zeitkratzer on sax and electronics."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page