Laurie Anderson - Big Science [LP] (Red Vinyl) Sealed Menu Laurie Anderson - Big Science [LP] (Red Vinyl) Sealed

1982 Debut Album Reissued On Red Vinyl LP!

Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut album, Big Science, returns to vinyl for the first time in thirty years with a new red vinyl edition due on Nonesuch Records. The vinyl includes the re-mastered original album first released on CD for the 25th anniversary of Big Science on Nonesuch in 2007.

In the early 1980s Laurie Anderson was already respected as a conceptual artist and composer, adept at employing gear both high-tech and homemade in her often violin-based pieces, and she was a familiar figure in the cross-pollinating, Lower Manhattan music-visual art-performance circles from which Philip Glass and David Byrne also emerged.

While working on her now-legendary seven-hour performance art/theater piece United States, Part I-IV, which premiered over two nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 1983, she cut the spare "O Superman (For Massenet)", an electronic-age update of nineteenth century French operatic composer Jules Massenet's aria "O Souverain", for the tiny New York City indie label 110 Records. In the UK, DJ John Peel picked up a copy of this very limited edition 33 1/3 RPM 7" and spun the eight-minute-plus track on BBC Radio 1. The exposure resulted in an unlikely number two hit, lots of attention in the American press, and a worldwide deal with Warner Bros. Records.

At the time of its original release, the NME wrote of Big Science, "There's a dream-like, subconscious quality about her songs which helps them work at deeper, secret levels of the psyche." With instrumentation ranging from tape loops to found sounds to bag pipes, Big Science anticipated the tech-savvy beats, anything-goes instrumentation and sample-based nature of much contemporary electronic and dance music.

Anderson was able to articulate in these songs, most of which were adapted from United States, the social/political anxiety she perceived in American society, as well as a longing for safety and emotional connection. The themes of Big Science include images of planes falling out of the sky ("From The Air"), the simultaneously comforting and sinister embrace of technology ("O Superman"), and the failure of men and women to speak in the same language ("The It Tango").

Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eerie aural collage of a debut album, communicates ... her astonishing intensity. -Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone (June 10, 1982) Big Science is a landmark release in the New York art scene of the '80s, and quite possibly the best art rock album of the decade. -Stewart Mason, AllMusic

Features Red Vinyl LP First time on vinyl in 30 years Remastered original album first released on CD for its 25th anniversary in 2007 Made in the Netherlands Selections Side 1: From The Air Big Science Sweaters Walking & Falling Born, Never Asked Side 2: O Superman (For Massenet) Example #22 Let X=X / It Tango

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4/2021

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