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"Hamilton Sterling's dark and skeptical film Faith of our Fathers was a hit at the Los Angeles Film Festival a couple of years back. Since that time, it has played in art houses from New York to Cairo, to audiences who have found its strange mix of parable and borderline documentary/manifesto style both alluring and disturbing. One thing noted by reviewers and spectators alike has been the importance of the music -- with opera singers, prepared piano and exotic percussion augmenting a traditional orchestra -- to the themes of the film. This is a CD of the full score, plus several bonus tracks. All the music was composed, arranged and conducted by Steve Gregoropoulos and was produced by the director. It features several well-known names in new music in Los Angeles in uncredited (but nonetheless stellar) performances."
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"Ultra-Red has always been about music, but it has always been about more than music, too. The brainchild of auteur/saboteur Don Rhein and collaborator/sound molester Pablo Garcia, Ultra-Red has taken the form of dance hall parties, art installations, manifestos, books, paintings, political rallies, automobiles and who-knows-what? In this case, Rhein and Garcia have assembled a series of interviews with a transsexual firefighter into a lovely musique concrete soundscape that ranges from bouncy to frightening to simply achingly beautiful, as the words have become sounds, rhythms and, ultimately, even exquisite melodies. The CD includes a manifesto on the rights of transgendered workers. Ultra-Red has already amassed an international reputation for surprise and experiment, and FS 59 will only increase that reputation."
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"Avant noir 'easy listening' (cello and musique concrete) from Solid Eye co-founder William Leavitt. Ten pieces that flow perfectly into one album. Perhaps a little reminiscent of classic Siegfried Palm or Lynn Harrell DGG avant cello records, yet completely refreshing, innovative and original." Performed solo on cello and synthesizers by William Leavit, produced by Joseph Hammer. Mysterious west coast experimentalism of a very high order.
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A trio of Dame Darcy (banjo, saw, vocals, tambourine), Pandora Pumpkinhead (flute, vocals, slide guitar, concertina, harmonica, kazoo, train whistle) & Black Strap Jack Shellac (guitar, vocals). Recorded in Hollywood, April 1998, this features the trio dealing with all traditional tunes like "Fatal Flower Garden," "'Electric Chair Blues," "In My Grave I'd Rather Be," "God Is My Friend," etc. Plus Leadbelly's "Keep Your Hands Off Her".
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