Robert Ashley - Improvement (1992) / AvaxHome

Tracklist:
CD1
1.01 The Argument (Prelude) 1:29
1.02 Sunset at the Turnoff 1:08
1.03 The Airline Ticket Counter 1:40
1.04 The Correspondences Text 2:42
1.05 The Ride to Town 6:38
1.06 The Airline Ticket Counter 1:44
1.07 The Indifference Text 4:36
1.08 Back Home … 2:01
1.09 Mr. George Payne 2:09
1.10 The Contents of Her Purse 10:14
1.11 Supper with Mr. Payne's Mother 4:40
1.12 Golf Left-Handed 3:27
1.13 A Moment (Very Late) 1:32

CD2
2.01 The Big City 0:53
2.02 Tarzan 3:03
2.03 The Big City (continued) 0:40
2.04 The Doctor 3:53
2.05 The Offering of Images 4:20
2.06 The Good Life 5:10
2.07 Trouble 0:27
2.08 The Good Life (continued) 0:13
2.09 Trouble (continued) 2:40
2.10 The Good Life (continued) 0:40
2.11 A Place In The Country 2:46
2.12 Happiness, Prosperity and Forgetfulness 9:06
2.13 The Bridge Game 5:03
2.14 North (Berlin / A Tango) 2:03
2.15 East (River Rouge) 0:30
2.16 South (Campo Die Fiori, Rome) 1:20
2.17 West (Atlantis) 1:18

MUSICIANS
Linda: Jacqueline Humbert
Don, Mr. Payne, Linda’s Companion: Thomas Buckner
Now Eleanor: Joan La Barbara
Junior, Jr.: Sam Ashley
The Doctor: Adam Klein
Mr. Payne’s Mother: Amy X Neuburg
The Narrator: Robert Ashley

“Before there was Spalding Gray or Laurie Anderson or the 1980s, there was Robert Ashley, the composer who dissected speech, envisioned television opera, and concocted a new kind of musical-theatrical experience,” writes critic Josef Woodard in describing the strikingly original work of Robert Ashley.

Ashley’s 90-minute oratorio-like piece Improvement premiered in New York in 1991 and was featured in festivals in Berlin and Paris. With a narrative that equates contemporary characters with settings and events from Spain in 1492, Ashley layers levels of reality through the use of vocalists who alternately speak, sing, and declaim his original text.

Ashley’s music, largely electronic and ambient, sets up atmospheres that are by turns arresting and hypnotic. The performers featured on the recording established themselves as champions of Ashley’s oeuvre and have toured with the composer throughout the US and Europe.

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