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By Evan ~ June 4th, 2009. Filed under: collector scum.
My amazing friend Jet, who has introduced me to so much good music over the years, turned me onto Christian Marclay. I don’t know, it was maybe 6 or 7 years ago? When I visited her in ‘04 she showed me this videotape of him performing on an old television show, and I was amazed. Seriously, if you’ve never searched for clips of Marclay on YouTube, or you are just hearing his name for the first time, get on that shit. I showed one of my co-workers footage of him shortly after I was hired, and he said he went home that night and couldn’t stop watching him. It’s mind-blowing. I recently fawned over Guitar Drag in that post about the best “outsider” records I was enjoying, but More Encores is just the coolest thing ever.
Originally released as 10″ vinyl record in 1988, More Encores is composed entirely of records after whom the tracks are titled. For example, on “John Cage,” Marclay cut slices from several Cage records and glued them back together to make a single disc. The audio collages he produces are astounding. He also uses multiple turntables and records the output and overdubbed different parts from different recordings. It’s impossible to follow and I imagine could be kind of grating if you’re not into sound art, but I think it’s wonderful.
“The Cage piece is one example where the deep cracks in the records are audible as pieces of music from “Works for Prepared Piano,” the string quartets and “Atlas Eclipticalis,” among others, were used. The Chopin piece is like mad circus music, careening like an organ grinder’s monkey got hold of the instrument. The Louis Armstrong track was recorded using a hand-crank gramophone and therefore its non-sampled charm is everywhere present. Also, the Gainsbourg/Birkin track in some ways tracks better than their own songs. Ultimately, though, all the speed changes become irritating throughout. Given that this was the ultimate use of a turntable back in 1988, and was a different take on sampling, it’s an interesting disc.” – All Music Guide
Christian Marclay
More Encores
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Tracklist:
01. Johann Strauss
02. John Zorn
03. Martin Denny
04. Frederic Chopin
05. Fred Frith
06. Louis Armstrong
07. Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher
08. John Cage
09. Maria Callas
10. Jimi Hendrix
11. Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg
12. Christian Marclay
