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Oh, the difference an "o" makes. While Fingerpainting spoke of creation, Fingerpointing jabs you in the eye. These are Jim O'Rourke's alternate mixes, made from the same "paint" as the original release, but the colors are a different shade. 2008 release. "Free
form freak out is dead! Long live free form freak out! Sounds are
building blocks, say The Red Krayola, again and, now, again. '60s The
Red Krayola began recording because posterity asked for it. Today, they
proffer their latest sensational object, Fingerpointing, an antic concept rendered classic, for The Parable of Arable Land is Fingerpainting is Fingerpointing; Fingerpointing is Fingerpainting is The Parable of Arable Land. Fingerpointing follows The Krayola's ur-formula, first elaborated in The Parable of Arable Land
(1967), designed to immerse and entertain the listener and confound the
FM DJs and anyone else's quest for the perfect segue in a narrative of
counter-cultural meaningfulness. Where Fingerpainting reiterates the structure of The Parable, Fingerpointing recapitulates the same structure and the same material as Fingerpainting.
It too is a parade of freak outs and songs alternately, and, like its
progenitors, a dynamic synthesis that puts in play all that is at stake
in the musical relation under the rubric of entertainment. Fingerpointing
could have been made for International Artists -- the songs, like flies
in amber, are versions of unreleased relics of the day modernity in its
ruthless pursuit of its next moment signed away its carefree days of
youth. The songs are by Frederick Barthleme, Steve Cunningham and Mayo
Thompson. The freak outs are not 'authored' in the usual sense. All of
the music was recorded at Treehouse Studio in Pasadena, CA at the same
time as the recording of Fingerpainting. It features the
performances of David Grubbs, George Hurley, Albert Oehlen, Stephen
Prina, Elisa Randazzo, Mayo Thompson, Tom Watson and Sandy Yang. The mix
is by Jim O'Rourke. We had to wait ten years for Fingerpainting to achieve its initial level of distributive awareness -- it had taken until 1999 for The Parable of Arable Land! Thanks to compression effects, now hear The Red Krayola elaborate the third material link. Listen and see."
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Cat. number: DC369
Year: 2018
