Alvin Curran

condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (light wear)

With original innersleeve.

The fourth and most explicitly vocal of Curran's solo records. Part 1 was recorded February-March 1982 on via dell'Orso 28 in Rome, the loft-studio Curran occupied since 1965; Part 2 in the same window at Mammuth Studios. Curran reversed the running order for the later CD reissue; the original Fore LP preserves the first conception.

Forty-five minutes of extended vocal lines: Curran half-sings, half-davens through long modal melismas that draw on Jewish liturgical chant, Italian folk vocal practice and the sustained-tone discipline La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath had been developing on another continent. Underneath: synthesizer drones, found sound at low volume. No spoken text. Fore pressed perhaps a few hundred copies. The 2010 New World Solo Works: The '70s triple-CD restored the work to wider circulation.