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Laurie Anderson – Mister Heartbreak
Laurie Anderson
Mister Heartbreak
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog Number: 9 25077-1
Released: 1984, 80's
Queen of the avant-garde Laurie Anderson teams up with iconic bass maestro / producer Bill Laswell on her classic second studio album Mister Heartbreak. As usual with Anderson’s work, the visual storytelling is absolutely phenomenal and draws from a number of sources including Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, along with Anderson’s own four part performance art piece United States. All the tracks are great and unique, but highlights include “Excellent Birds,” a collaboration with Peter Gabriel featuring Chic’s Nile Rodgers, the Gayageum featured “Kokoku,” and the seafaring abstract vocoder techno “Langue D’Amour.”
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Avant-Garde / Rock / Vocoder
Tracklist:
A1 Sharkey’s Day
A2 Langue D’Amour
A3 Gravity’s Angel
B1 Kokoku
B2 Excellent Birds
B3 Blue Lagoon
B4 Sharkey’s Night
Credits:
Artwork [Cover And Inner Sleeve Art] – Laurie Anderson
Bass – Bill Laswell (tracks: A1, A3, B1 to B4)
Drums – Anton Fier (tracks: A1, B1, B4)
Engineer – Leanne Ungar
Graphics [Cover And Inner Sleeve] – Laurie Anderson
Guitar – Adrian Belew (tracks: A1, A3, B3, B4)
Lacquer Cut By – HW*
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig, Howie Weinberg
Mixed By – Mike Krowiak
Producer – Bill Laswell (tracks: A1, B1, B4), Laurie Anderson
Songwriter – Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel (tracks: B2)
Vocals, Synthesizer [Synclavier] – Laurie Anderson
