Robert Ashley
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo) (LP)
FormatLPLabelLovely Music, Ltd.GenreExperimental
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Subtitled The Lessons. Episode 6 of the seven-part Perfect Lives: thirty short lessons in which the narrator-pianist Buddy ("the world's greatest piano player," voiced by Tyranny) holds forth on memory, reincarnation and Giordano Bruno. The "Coo Coo" of the title is Campo de' Fiori, where Bruno was burned in 1600.
Peter Gordon of the Love of Life Orchestra co-produced and folded vocoders, synthesised horns and a near-Motown beat under Ashley's incantations. "Blue" Gene Tyranny plays Polymoog, organ and prepared-piano boogie figures. David Van Tieghem drums; Jill Kroesen and video director John Sanborn sing backup. Bob Ludwig mastered. Released three years before the Perfect Lives broadcast, this was the only sustained-listen preview of the opera available at the time.
Release notes
Perfect Lives - An opera in seven episodes
| A1 | Isolde (Marie Isolde) | 6:49 | |
| A2 | Raoul De Noget (No-Zhay) | 6:49 | |
| B1 | Buddy | 6:49 | |
| B2 | The Captain Of The Football Team (Donnie) | 7:15 |
- Peter Gordon
- Arranged By [Chorus Parts, Orchestrations], Drums, Percussion [Synare, Vocal Percussion], Effects [Vocoder], Mixed By, Producer, Synthesizer [Arp String Ensemble, Prophet 5]
- Robert Ashley
- Arranged By [Chorus Parts, Orchestrations], Arranged By [Vocal And Instrumental Overdubs], Mixed By, Vocals
- "Blue" Gene Tyranny
- Arranged By [Chorus Parts, Orchestrations], Co-producer, Arranged By [Vocal And Instrumental Overdubs], Effects [Vocoder], Organ, Synthesizer [Polymoog]
- David Van Tieghem
- Arranged By [Vocal And Instrumental Overdubs], Vocals
- Patrick Vitacco
- Cover
- Joshua Harris
- Engineer, Mixed By
- Performing Artservices, Inc.
- Management
- Bob Ludwig
- Mastered By
- Jill Kroesen
- Piano [Prepared-piano Solos], Vocals
