Big Science

Big ScienceIn the early 1980s, Laurie Anderson was already respected as a conceptual artist and composer, adept at employing gear both high tech and homemade in her often violin based pieces, and she was a familiar figure in the cross pollinating, Lower Manhattan music visual art performance circles from which Philip Glass and David Byrne also emerged. While working on her now legendary seven hour performance art theater piece United States, Part IIV, she cut

” Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today

the secular and the universal

Culled from an evening that also included Suzanne Vega and Victoria Williams

to the flashy funk of the Brothers Johnson or "ABC" by the Jackson 5

painting a bitterly comedic portrait of a life tainted by vice

000 worldwide

and mixed by her Devouring Mothers bandmate Marc Hudson

The label left behind an impressive body of work

” “Not Fade Away” > “Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad

Yellow/Red Splatter

and hints at the synth-based electropunk style that the band would later pursue

The Chicago Theater is a gorgeous beast with a built-in Mighty Wurlitzer organ