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Spoken Word Elettronico.
Uno spettacolo sonoro registrato e racchiuso in un box di 4 cd (o 5 lp). Un lavoro mastodontico che in edizione integrale superava le 8 ore. Ma io sto sprecando fiato, penso che molti di voi conoscano la Anderson (Big Science soprattutto, è l'album che più si avvicina a questo.)
Ma procediamo con ordine, nella prima parte (19 brani), la più parlata e quella che contiene meno musica, spicca tra tutte la bizzarra composizione per violino Born, Never Asked (inclusa anche in Big Science ma qui in una esecuzione molto migliore).
"Una città che ripete sé stessa all'infinito, sperando che qualcosa le rimarrà in mente"
La seconda parte (19 brani), secondo me la migliore, comprende brani conosciuti e nuovi. Tra quelli conosciuti spiccano O Superman (in un'ottima esecuzione, peccato per gli applausi e i colpi di tosse del pubblico) e Let X=X (idem); tra i nuovi brani Reverb (suoni provenienti da degli occhiali amplificati - ve la vedete la Anderson a percuotersi la testa per "suonare" questo brano?) e Violin Walk. Comprende anche una versione di Language is a Virus differente da quella di Home of the Brave ma altrettanto bella.
"Udire il tuo nome è meglio che vedere la tua faccia"
La terza parte (21 brani) è la più strana e sperimentale, contiene un brano bellissimo che parla di indiani intitolato Hey Ah, le sperimentazioni vocali sono protagoniste di questa parte che si conclude con il brano Big Science (purtoppo non all'altezza della versione in studio)
"Ho sognato che dovevo fare un esame in una latteria su un altro pianeta"
La quarta e ultima parte (19 brani) musicalmente mi ricorda Mr Heartbreak. Contiene una versione di Blue Lagoon superiore a quella in studio e una versione stranissima di Sweaters. Contiene anche la famosa Lighting Out for the Territories in cui indossava dei fanali sugli occhi ed interpretava il testo passando in mezzo al pubblico,uscendo di scena.
"State osservando facsimili ingranditi di spermatozoi umani"
Bizzarro, unico, splendido, per chi ama i primi lavori dell'Anderson (da Big Science a Home of the Brave) questo album è assolutamente imperdibile.
Lo sconsiglio a tutti coloro che, come me, ama ascoltare i cd tutto d'un fiato senza pause e non riesce ad innamorarsi di una canzone o due, con questo album, signori, si rischia di diventare scemi.
Elenco tracce e testi
13 So Happy Birthday (06:23)
JOE: In our country, you’re free and so you’re born and so they say, “You’re free,” so happy birthday. And even if you were born to lose--even if you were a complete wreck when you were born--you might still grow up to be president ... because you’re free.
GERALDINE: Today, you might be an average citizen ... a civilian ... a pedestrian ... But tomorrow you might be elected to some unexpected office--or sell your novel and suddenly become famous. Or you could get run over by a truck and your picture could get into the papers _that_ way. Because you’re free and anything might happen ... so happy birthday.
JOE: Gee! All those lights and all those screens! The New York Experience is mind-boggling. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many screens and I’ll probably come again ... It was really amazing, mind-boggling.
GERALDINE: You’re walking and you don’t always realize it but you’re always falling at the same time. With each step you fall forward. Over and over, you’re falling and then catching yourself from falling ... And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.
JOE: Look! Over there! It’s a real dog ... and it’s really talking
GERALDINE: I wanted you and I was looking for you ... but I couldn’t find you. I wanted you and I was looking for you all day ... but I couldn’t find you.
JOE: Well, I paid my money, and I’ve got this funny feeling that somehow--you know--it’s not what I paid my money for. I mean I _paid_ my money and I just don’t think this is what I paid my money--you know--what I paid my money for.
GERALDINE: No one has ever looked at me like this before ... no one has ever _stared_ at me for so long like this ... This is the first time anyone has ever looked at me like this ... stared at me like this for such a long time ... for so long.
JOE: Well, he didn’t know what to do so he just decided to watch the government and see what the government was doing and then kind of scale it down to size--and run his life that way.
GERALDINE: She said the hardest thing to teach her three-year-old kid was what was alive and what wasn’t. The phone rings and she holds it out to her kid and says, “It’s Grandma. Talk to Grandma.” But she’s holding a piece of plastic. And the kid says to herself: “Wait a minute. Is the phone alive? Is the TV alive? What about that radio? What is alive in this room and what doesn’t have life?” Unfortunately, she doesn’t know how to ask these questions.
JOE: We were in a large room. Full of people. All kinds. And they had arrived at the same time. And they were all free and they were all asking themselves the same question: What is behind that curtain? They were all free. And they were all wondering what would happen next.
GERALDINE: This is the time and this is the record of the time.
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