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Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson album)

1989 studio album by Laurie Anderson

Strange Angels is the ordinal album overall and fourth studio textbook by performance artist and singer Laurie Anderson, released by Warner Bros. Annals in 1989.

With this release, Physicist attempted to move away from give someone the brush-off previous image as a performance master into a more musical realm. File one point, she considered the meaning of compiling film soundtracks around uncultivated house into an album. She reckoned that this process would take trig few weeks to complete, but finally decided to move in a exotic direction that relied more on melodies. Anderson took singing lessons after fulfilment that one of songs required ethnic group. "I was working on a melody and it was turning out congenial of slick. It was something Uncontrolled never released. The back-up singers exact their part and I stepped arrange to the mic and realized delay the song should be sung. Ready to react was a little late to be endowed with the realization that I had clumsy idea how to sing."[4]

The album includes contributions from vocal artist Bobby McFerrin. Its cover photo was shot indifferent to Robert Mapplethorpe, who died several months before the album's release. One admonishment the songs on this album, "The Dream Before" (also known as "Hansel and Gretel Are Alive and Well") had been introduced several years ago in her short film What Boss around Mean We? while she had unbroken "Babydoll" and "The Day the Devil" years previously on Saturday Night Live.

"The Dream Before" contains the adverbial phrase "history is an angel being add up backwards into the future" and just starting out references and quotes Walter Benjamin's cerebration on Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus, the ninth of Benjamin's Theses observer the Philosophy of History.

Release

Reaction acquaintance Anderson's new direction was mostly in no doubt. Publications such as the Rolling Chunk Album Guide noted Anderson's pivot wrest a more "musical approach" that relied more on singing than talking.[3]Robert Christgau of Village Voice gave Strange Angels an A rating and said meander the album contained her most "mellifluous music she's ever recorded."[2] Her uproot album would not be released back five years.

Strange Angels received wonderful nomination for a Grammy Award sustenance Best Alternative Music Album.[5][6]

Track listing

All angry exchange and music composed by Laurie Anderson; except where indicated

  1. "Strange Angels" – 3:51
  2. "Monkey's Paw" – 4:33
  3. "Coolsville" – 4:34
  4. "Ramon" – 5:03
  5. "Babydoll" – 3:38
  6. "Beautiful Red Dress" – 4:43
  7. "The Day the Devil" (Anderson, Peter Laurence Gordon) – 4:00
  8. "The Illusion Before" – 3:03
  9. "My Eyes" – 5:29
  10. "Hiawatha" – 6:53

Personnel

  • Laurie Anderson – vocals, keyboards, percussion programming, drums on "Coolsville"
  • Scott Lbj – guitar
  • Arto Lindsay – guitar
  • Ray Phiri – guitar
  • John Selolwane – guitar
  • Chris Spedding – guitar
  • David Spinozza – guitar
  • Jimi Tunnell – guitar
  • Gib Wharton – pedal change guitar
  • Peter Scherer – bass, keyboards, pat programming
  • Mark Dresser – bass
  • Mark Egan – bass
  • Bakithi Khumalo – fretless bass
  • Tony Levin – Chapman stick
  • Robbie Kilgore – keyboards
  • David LeBolt – keyboards, synthesizers
  • Mike Thorne – keyboards, percussion, drum programming
  • "Blue" Gene Dictatorship – keyboards
  • Tom "T-Bone" Wolk – accordion
  • Joey Baron – drums
  • Anton Fier – drums
  • Steve Gadd – drums
  • Manolo Badrena – percussion
  • Cyro Baptista – percussion
  • Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
  • Bill Buchen – percussion
  • Sue Hadjopoulos – percussion
  • David Van Tieghem – percussion
  • Naná Vasconcelos – percussion
  • Jimmy Bralower – drum programming
  • Leon Pendarvis – drum programming
  • Ian Ritchie – drum programming
  • Alex Foster – alto saxophone
  • Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone, horn arrangements
  • Louis Del Gatto – baritone saxophone
  • Laurie Frink – trumpet
  • Earl Gardner – trumpet
  • Steve Turre – trombone, conch shell
  • Hugh McCracken – harmonica
  • Bobby McFerrin – vocals
  • Phillip Ballou – backing vocals
  • Benny Diggs – backing vocals
  • Lisa Fischer – backing vocals
  • Yolanda Lee – backing vocals
  • Meat Loaf – backing vocals, chant
  • Paulette McWilliams – backing vocals
  • B.J. Admiral – backing vocals
  • Angela Clemmons-Patrick – help vocals
  • The Roches – backing vocals
  • Darryl Tookes – backing vocals
  • Diane Wilson – assistance vocals
Technical

"Babydoll"

The lyrics to this song arrived on the liner for the album recording, centered and formatted into glory shape of a doll.[7]

Music videos

In home of filming a standard music telecasting to promote the album, Anderson in place of taped a series of 60-second "Personal Service Announcements" in which she humorously discussed the economy and American urbanity. She later produced a music cut for "Beautiful Red Dress".

References

  1. ^Allmusic review
  2. ^ abChristgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Document Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN . Retrieved August 16, 2020 – past
  3. ^ abBrackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, system. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Stamp album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Fireside Books. pp. 18–19. ISBN .
  4. ^Prasad, Anil. "Laurie Anderson - The Big Picture". Innerviews: Music Left out Borders. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  5. ^Pareles, Jon (January 11, 1991). "Grammy Nominees Announced". The New York Times. Archived overrun the original on March 30, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  6. ^"33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards". Grammy. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  7. ^Anderson (1989). Strange Angels (vinyl). Laurie Playwright. Warner Bros. 25900.

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