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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Randy Grief
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Alice in Wonderland
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ReleaseDate:
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5/23/2000
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Soleilmoon Recordings
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CD
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Catalog Number:
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Sol 55 |
Soleilmoon is proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of RANDY GREIF'S "ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Originally released as a series of five individual between 1991 and 1993 in very limited numbers, this disturbing and surreal project has become a cult item in "new music" circles. Using electronics and altered "natural" sounds, along with more traditional instruments, Greif creates a dark atmosphere for the Lewis Carroll classic. The spoken text is deconstructed into indecipherable phonemes, or laid into rhythmic, musical structures roughly approximating songs. At times, the sonic backdrop is used in a cinematic style behind electronically manipulated voices. Running about six hours, the work was created to move within the real-time cycles of a psychedelic experience. Although the original story has many layers of meaning, Greif intends this interpretation to include some that may be beyond the scope of the original, such as a little girl's shift from childhood to adolescence, and our species' evolution into technological beings.
All five CDs are presented as a boxed set and have been re-mastered for this release. The packaging of the CDs has been completely redesigned as well. Most interesting to collectors will be the "Alice in Wonderland" trading cards being published in conjunction with the release. Sixty different cards have been created–each corresponding to one of the sixty tracks on the CDs. The image on each card evolves from the last, like the frames of an animated film. The cards have each been printed in different edition sizes so that only 410 complete sets are possible. Five cards are included with each CD box set, but the cards will also be sold in packs of 10, in the tradition of collectible trading cards.
Randy Greif has released approximately a dozen CDs and numerous LPs and cassettes of electronic soundscapes under his own name, and Shadowbug 4, as well as making up half of the group, Static Effect. He has collaborated on projects with Robin Storey (Rapoon), Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions), Dan Burke (Illusion Of Safety), R. Kitch (I.A.M. Umbrella / Stylus / His Masters Voice), and Anna Homler. His current project is an adaptation of "War of the Worlds" to be produced by Brian Williams (Lustmord).
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