Opening Performance Orchestra
The Acid Lands
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The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S. Burroughs's birth. The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player Martina Potucková, and the poet, musician and performer Pavel Z as the narrator.
The studio version of The Acid Lands was made in late 2019/early 2020 in collaboration with Bill Laswell and Iggy Pop, who undertook the role of the narrator. The piece, which pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, features fragments from the novels The Western Lands and Junkie. In addition to the title composition, The Acid Lands, the record contains Bill Laswell's instrumental remix, as well as the collective piece Naming Seven Souls, featuring samples of William S. Burroughs reading his own work.
Format
Issued in a 6-panel Digipak sleeve.
“The Acid Lands” by Opening Performance Orchestra featuring William S. Burroughs
“Junky” and “The Western Lands” narrated by William S. Burroughs
with the kind permission of William Burroughs Communications
written by William S. Burroughs
published by Nova Lark, administered by BMG Rights Management
for North America by Songs of Virtual
Moog and theremin recorded at JáMOR Studio, spring 2019, Prague
recording engineer: [...]
Electronics and fraction music recorded and mixed at re-set studio, autumn 2019, Prague
Iggy Pop appears courtesy of Thousand Mile Inc.
Bill Laswell additional recording, mixing and mastering at
Orange Music, West Orange, NJ, February 2020
engineer: [...]
Thanks to Martin Klimeš & Bludný Kámen, Ulli Petereit, Milan Guštar and Peter J Wright
Special thanks to Pavel Z
(from the inner panel)
Another Sub Rosa production SR500
(from the back sleeve)
Release notes
Issued in a 6-panel Digipak sleeve. “The Acid Lands” by Opening Performance Orchestra featuring William S. Burroughs “Junky” and “The Western Lands” narrated by William S. Burroughs with the kind permission of William Burroughs Communications written by William S. Burroughs published by Nova Lark, administered by BMG Rights Management for North America by Songs of Virtual Moog and theremin recorded at JáMOR Studio, spring 2019, Prague recording engineer: [...] Electronics and fraction music…
| 1 | The Acid Lands | 24:45 | |
| 2 | The Acid Lands (Ambient Mix-Translation) | 17:07 | |
| 3 | Naming The Seven Souls (Mix-Translation) | 4:34 |
- Yoko Yamabe @ Randesign
- Artwork
- William S. Burroughs
- Author (1, 3)
- Luis Gomez
- Engineer [Elite Music Studio]
- James Dellatacoma
- Engineer [Orange Music]
- Ondřej Ježek
- Engineer [Recording Engineer Jámor Studio]
- Přemysl Ondra
- Liner Notes [Text]
- Hilda Hearne
- Liner Notes [Translation]
- Bill Laswell
- Recorded By [Additional], Mixed By [Mixing], Mastered By [Mastering]
