Radio Hyper-Yahoo [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Elliott Sharp

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 2004)
• Original Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: zOaR
• ASIN: B00061IJ88
• Also Available in: Audio CD
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #587,945 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sleeper   

2. Got It? Get It?

3. No Crime

4. Happy

5. In The Film

6. Escalation

7. In The Country

8. Heathern

9. Estimated Time Of Wait

10. King Rat

11. Raise The Hammer

12. Hellavision

13. The Passion Of Crust

14. Ask Me

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About the Artist

Composer/producer/sound artist Elliott Sharp leads the groups Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and is considered one of the founders of New York's "Downtown Scene." Sharp tours extensively throughout the world as a composer-in-residence, as a soloist, with his own projects and ensembles, and as part of various collaborations performing at festivals, museums, theatres, galleries, and clubs. He has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and biological metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Modern, Continuum, Kronos Quartet, and Zeitkratzer and collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, playwright Dael Orlandersmith, cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti, sci-fi writers Jack Womack and Lucius Shepard; blues legend Hubert Sumlin; jazz greats Sonny Sharrock, Jack deJohnette, and Oliver Lake; turntablists DJ Soulslinger and Christian Marclay; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjoukah.

Product Description

E# and company redefine Americana in this wide-ranging and hard-hitting program of songs and rants inspired by Jonathan Swift's pungent and timeless "Gulliver's Travels."

Speakers and singers include performer and actor Eric Bogosian, hip-hop poet-queen Tracie Morris, character actor Steve Buscemi reading from William Burroughs, monster vocalist Eric Mingus, poet raver Maggie Estep, Nuyorican dadaist Edwin Torres, Hungarian goddess Eszter Balint, apocalyptic bard Jack Womack, singer Lisa Lowell (veteran of Bruce Springsteen & David Johansen), and original Lounge Lizard Steve Piccolo.

Underpinning all of the words are music tracks ranging from the brutal electro beats of Tracie Morris' "Got It? Get It!", the grinding funk of Eric Bogosian's "No Crime", the stark soundscape of Steve Buscemi's "In The Film", the rootsy steel-guitar driven rock of Lisa Lowell's "In The Country", and the Hungarian Delta blues of Eszter Balint's "Estimated Time Of Wait." Instrumental highlights include the psychedelic surf number "Escalation" and the Miles-ian "Ask Me."

The music is completely crafted by composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp with his unmatched sonic vision and performed by him on instruments ranging from guitars, basses, saxophones, zither and banjo to computer processers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and hacked speak-n-spell's. Guests on selected tracks include DJ Gak Sato and drummer Sim Cain.

Radio Hyper-Yahoo is the third in a series that began with In The Land Of The Yahoos in 1986 on SST and continued with 1992's Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Yahoos on Silent. Long out-of-print, these eclectic discs featured Persian singer Sussan Deihim, Christoph Anders of Cassiber, avant-diva Shelley Hirsch, Victor Poison-Tete of RatAtRatR, pioneering turntablist Christian Marclay, Animal Slave Elizabeth Fischer, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, and poet Barbara Barg among a cast of many others.