- Audio CD (13 Mar 1995)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: Warner
- ASIN: B000002MWJ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 143,699 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Laurie Anderson is a master storyteller. This CD is a recording of one show out of her tour "Stories from the Nerve Bible". It features Laurie reading stories from her book with minimal musical background (mostly pre-recorded vocals, birds, natural sounds etc.). Laurie does not sing nor uses much effects as on her other works, but simply tells short stories and observations. The stories are very diverse - ranging from observations on life and death ("The Soul is a bird", "The End of the World"), politics ("The cultural.."), Laurie's work methods ("The salesman") etc. Laurie's voice is simply hypnotic, soothing, and very expressive.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have to say that I could listen to Laurie Anderson reading excerpts form the phone book - she has the most singular, lilting, expressive, emotive voice. But here she weaves a web of tales, reminiscences, thoughts and musings to form a coherent whole which reveals itself slowly to you. Her recent intimate stage shows have been in the same vein and would also make for fantastic recordings.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I regard Laurie Anderson as the most important multimedia performance artist of the late twentieth century and enjoy the contradiction of her mistrust and articulate dissection of technology with the large-scale deployment of cutting edge electronics and digital gizmos in her own work, notably in United States I-IV, which to my mind remains her finest achievement and spawned the essential album Big Science. Exhibitions of her mixed media work are also highly recommended.
Laurie Anderson regards the tour of these readings from her book, Stories From The Nerve Bible, as "the most low-tech show I've ever done. I sat on the stage with keyboards, digital effects machines, a violin and a twenty-four input mixing console and mixed the sound myself." Reduced even further to just an audio track on a CD the collection becomes even more intimate and engaging; "a kind of mental movie", as she describes it in the sleeve notes, a movie of stories that cover twenty years of her work as an artist, told with guile and craft and not a little warmth and humour from this remarkable performer
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