condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Built around Ashley's Tourette's syndrome: the involuntary half-words, mumbled doublings and vocal tics his nervous system produced regardless of intent. Four years of recording and editing, then surrounded with a Polymoog drone, a faint Hammond, and Mimi Johnson reading the French translation (by Monsa Norberg).

The LP collects four pieces: the title work (46-minute central composition) and three older voice studies (Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, She Was a Visitor, In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women). Sessions moved between Mills College, the American Cultural Center in Paris, and Mastertone in New York. The piece sits at the threshold of audibility. Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound has cited it as a foundational record. 1996 CD on LCD 1002, 2019 remaster on LML 1002.