“Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out" offers an intimate unedited solo live performance recorded at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85.
Phill curated and produced with Arthur two concerts at EI that would become an integral part of the foundation for the final World of Echo album. Arthur titled this performance "Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out". This extraordinary performance was recorded by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986.
"Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn't play "for" the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself...and a few of us just happened to be present" - Tom Lee
2LP
A1 - That’s The Very Reason
A2 - Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
B1 - Happy Ending
B2 - All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
C1 - Introductions
C2 - Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
C3 - Too Early To Tell
+ from Sketches for World of Echo
D1 - Changing Forest
D2 - Sunlit Water
2CD
Disc One Sketches for World of Echo
- Changing Forest
- Let’s Go Swimming
- They and Their Friends
- Keeping Up
- Make 1,2
- I Take This Time
- Losing My Taste For The Nightlife
- I Can’t Hide You
- The Boy with a Smile On His Face
- Sunlit Water
Disc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out
- That’s The Very Reason
- Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
- Happy Ending
- All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
- Introductions
- Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
- Too Early To Tell
