more from
Sub Rosa Label
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

YOUUU + MEE = WEEE

by Charlemagne Palestine + Rhys Chatham

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    BONUS ITEM: digipack
    Purchasable with gift card

      €8.50 EUR  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    3CD digipack

    Includes unlimited streaming of YOUUU + MEE = WEEE via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days
    5 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      €19 EUR or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 6 Charlemagne Palestine releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of YOUUU + MEE = WEEE, Strumming Music for Piano, Harpsichord & Strings Ensemble, Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear, From Etudes to Cataclysms / for the Doppio Borgato, Voxorgachitectronumputer, and An Aural Symbiotic Mystery. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €32.34 EUR or more (30% OFF)

     

1.
First 41:15
2.
Second 01:00:00
3.
Third 52:27

about

166 minutes with
Charlemagne Palestine:
piano Bösendorfer, orgue Yamaha and voice
Rhys Chatham:
trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar.

This is the first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine and Rhys Chatham. And it's precious. After the musical meeting with Tony Conrad (SR204), and with Z'ev (SR340), this new Sub Rosa sessions creates a form of trilogy.

credits

released July 6, 2013

Charlemagne Palestine wrote intense, ritualistic music in the 1970s, intended by the composer to rub against audiences' expectations of what is beautiful and meaningful in music. A composer-performer, he always performed his own works as soloist. His earliest works were compositions for carillon and electronic drones, and he is best known for his intensely performed piano works. He also performs as a vocalist. Palestine's performance style is ritualistic; he generally surrounds himself (and his piano) with stuffed animals, smokes large numbers of kretek (Indonesian clove cigarettes) and drinks cognac.

Rhys Chatham began his musical career as a piano tuner for avant-garde pioneer La Monte Young as well as harpsichord tuner for Gustav Leonhardt, Rosalyn Tureck and Glenn Gould.
He soon studied under electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and minimalist icon La Monte Young and was a member of Young's group, The Theater of Eternal Music, during the early seventies; Chatham also played with Tony Conrad in an early version of Conrad's group, The Dream Syndicate. In 1971, while still in his teens, Chatham became the first music director at the experimental art space The Kitchen in lower Manhattan. His early works, such as Two Gongs (1971) owed a significant debt to Young and other minimalists. His concert productions included experimenters Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, and early alternative rockers such as Fred Frith, Robert Fripp, Arto Lindsay, and John Lurie. He has worked closely with visual artist/musician Robert Longo, particularly in the 1980s, and on an experimental opera called XS: The Opera Opus (1984-6) with the visual artist Joseph Nechvatal. By 1977, Chatham's music was heavily influenced by punk rock, having seen an early Ramones concert. He was particularly intrigued by and influential upon the group of artists music critics would label No Wave in 1978. Members of the New York City noise rock band Band of Susans began their careers in Chatham's ensembles; they later performed a cover of Chatham's "Guitar Trio" on their 1991 album, The Word And The Flesh. (This parallels the way that members of fellow NYC noise rockers Sonic Youth began their careers in Branca's ensembles; Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth did play with Chatham as well.)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Charlemagne Palestine Brussels, Belgium

shows

contact / help

Contact Charlemagne Palestine

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like YOUUU + MEE = WEEE, you may also like: