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01. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - ¿Dónde Está the Donner Party?
02. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - How Many Contracts do I Have, Linda?
03. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - Cannibal Cowgirl
04. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - How Many Fur Coats do I Have, Edith?
05. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - Archetypal Unitized Seminar
06. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - How Many Head o' Cattle Do I Have, Sally?
07. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - Gold Rush Epilogue
08. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - You Pay Rent on your Brain
09. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - I Feel Like a Martian
10. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - Japanese Disease
11. David Behrman/Paul Demarinis/Fern Friedman/Terri Hanlon/Anne Klingensmith - I'm Hungry
ARTIST
TITLE
She's More Wild...
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BT 059LP BT 059LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/15/2020

Black Truffle announce the release of She's More Wild..., a collaborative project by David Behrman, Paul DeMarinis, Fern Friedman, Terri Hanlon, and Anne Klingensmith recorded at Mills College in 1981. Previously known only to cognoscenti through an obscure self-released three-track 7", this is the first publication of the complete album, an outrageous confection that mixes art-song and theatrical monolog with live electronics. Starting life as a performance art piece described by the artists as "Western Performance Noir", the record centers on a series of texts written by Friedman and Hanlon in which female narrators comically embody a series of iconic roles (The Recording Artist, The Former Movie Star, and The Rancher). Other lyrical themes include recurring references to the notorious cannibal pioneers, the Donner Party, an ironic take on Japanophilia, and the luscious "Archetypal Unitized Seminar", a satirical poke at self-help culture, whose lyrics are rendered in Indian raga style to the accompaniment of electronic glissandi and toy noisemakers. Delivered by Friedman, Hanlon, Klingensmith, and special guest Maggi Payne in forms ranging from spoken monolog to country and western waltz, the texts are accompanied by instrumental and electronic contributions by Behrman and DeMarinis. Musically, She's More Wild... is truly unique, demonstrating these two pioneers of live-electronic performance adapting their signature processes to something approaching a "pop" format: you hear the gliding, frequency-sensitive electronics familiar from Behrman's classic On the Other Ocean and the mutant hacked Speak n' Spell heard on DeMarinis' Songs Without Throats (BT 041LP, 2019) propelled by drum machines and twisted into song forms. Perhaps comparable only to the David Rosenboom and Jacqueline Humbert's contemporaneous Daytime Viewing in its interweaving of performance art tactics, high-tech electronics and pop sensibilities, She's More Wild... is an essential document, both immediately gratifying and ultimately thought provoking. Gatefold sleeve with various texts and archival images; sleeve design by Lasse Marhaug. Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplate & Mastering, Berlin.