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OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA / BILL LASWELL / IGGY POP / W.S.BURROUGHS - The Acid Lands

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Sub Rosa SRV500 Release Year: 2020 Note: studio version of this tribute composition by O.P.O. (24 min.), dedicated to W.S. BURROUGHS (using texts from "Junkie" and "The Western Lands"), first performed on a festival in Czech Rep. in 2014; for the re-arrangement IGGY POP and BILL LASWELL were taking part in this kind of experimental earplay collage with enough raw passages... comes with two bonus tracks / remixes on Side B and with full gatefold-cover with extensive liner notes Price (incl. 19% VAT): €18.00 More Info The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S. Burroughs's birth. The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player Martina Potucková, and the poet, musician and performer Pavel Z as the narrator. The studio version of The Acid Lands was made in late 2019/early 2020 in collaboration with Bill Laswell and Iggy Pop, who undertook the role of the narrator. The piece, which pays tribute to William S. Burroughs, features fragments from the novels The Western Lands and Junkie. In addition to the title composition, The Acid Lands, the record contains Bill Laswell's instrumental remix, as well as the collective piece Naming Seven Souls, featuring samples of William S. Burroughs reading his own work." https://billlaswell2.bandcamp.com/album/the-acid-lands