Five American Portraits

Description

The Red Krayola with Art & Language present, in association with Drag City Records, Five American Portraits, available on compact disc and vinyl.

These portraits in words and music will hang in the halls of your mind, taking shape as their features are described against backdrops of familiar and characteristic music :Roadrunner(EllasMcDaniel); President George :TexasOurTexas(), TheEyesOfTexas(lyrics by John Lang Sinclair, music based on the American folksong IveBeenWorkingOnTheRailroad,AKA Levee Song),and The New Eyes Of Texas (music and lyrics by Mayo Thompson); President Jimmy Carter: GeorgiaOnMyMind(Hoagy Charmichael and Stuart Gorrell) and Dixies Land(Daniel Decatur Emmett); John Wayne:TheSearchers(music by Max Steiner, incorporating Just A Closer Walk With Thee (), and Dixies Land(opcit); Ad Reinhardt: Piano Sonata No.6 first movement, first and second sections (), which incorporates the signature motif of The Rolling StonesPaintItBlack.

The Red Krayola with Art & Language are responsible for such classic collaborations joining concerns from art and music as Kangaroo?, Corrected Slogans, Black SnakesandSighs Trapped By Liars. Five American Portraits features the drumming of Alex Dower of the heavy metal band Victim, the piano work of Tom Rogers on of Three Trapped Tigers, the sax and trumpet work of the French improvisational wizard Q, the guitar work of Slovenlys Tom Watson, a bass part by Jim ORourke, whose credits are too long to list, piano, guitar and vocal work by Mayo Thompson, and the bass and vocal work of The Raincoats Gina Birch,her first appearance with The Red Krayola since Kangaroo?.