Condition

Media: Near Mint (NM or M-) — Great copies!
Sleeve: Very Good Plus (VG+) — Sleeve in excellent shape, minor edge wear.

Tracklisting

"The Technology Of Tears"
A1  Sadness, Its Bones Bleached Behind Us  13:05
A2  You Are What You Eat  7:22
B3  You Are What You Eat [Continued]  11:39
B4  The Palace Of Laughter, The Technology Of Tears  10:08
And Other Music For Dance And Theatre
C1  Jigsaw  14:39
C2  Jigsaw Coda  3:04
Propaganda

Credits

Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax]: John Zorn
Commissioned By: Concert Dance Company of Boston
Commissioned By: Creation Production Company
Commissioned By: Rosalind Newman
Cover [Cover Design], Design [Cover Design]: Peter Bäder
Cover [Cover Images], Photography By [Photos]: Pierre Hébert (3)
Engineer [Assistant Engineers]: Louie Fleck
Engineer [Assistant Engineers]: Sue Fisher
Engineer [BC]: Martin Bisi
Engineer [New York Digital]: Paul Zinman
Engineer [Noise]: Kramer (2)
Instruments, Voice [Voices]: Fred Frith
Lacquer Cut By: Henry Riedel
Programmed By [Programming Guidance From]: Henry Kaiser
Sleeve Notes: Zbigniew Herbert
Sleeve Notes [Translation]: Czesław Miłosz
Sleeve Notes [Translation]: Peter Dale Scott
Trombone: Jim Staley
Turntables: Christian Marclay
Voice: Tenko

Label: RecRec Music (RecRec 20)

Notes

"The Technology Of Tears" Recorded at BC Studio, June '86 and Noise New York, Nov. '86 – Jan. '87. Synclavier recorded in California, June '86, with programming guidance from Henry Kaiser. Commissioned by Rosalind Newman and first performed by her dance company at the Joyce Theatre, NYC in February 1987. "Jigsaw" Recorded at Noise, Oct. '86 Commissioned as a collaboration between Fred Frith, Rosalind Newman and Pier Voulkos. "Propaganda" Recorded at Noise, April '87. It was written and directed by Matthew Maguire and first performed at La Mama ETC in New York from May 1– 24 1987. All instruments and voices by Fred Frith except as noted. Digitally re-mastered at New York Digital, Aug '87. [RecRec Music logo] © 1987 ℗ 1988 Manufactured and distributed by RecRec Genossenschaft Magnusstr. 5, 8004 Zurich Marketed in West Germany by No Man's Land Distribution by Recommended / No Man's Land Dominikanergasse 7 8700 Würzburg Sleeve Notes: [translation © Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott, 1968]. Runouts are stamped except for HR which is etched.