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The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories [Soundtrack]

~ Laurie Anderson
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  • Audio CD (13 Mar 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002MWJ
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85,677 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Laurie Anderson's 1994 album, BRIGHT RED is the outgrowth of STORIES FROM THE NEW BIBLE, a series of tales developed byLaurie Anderson and subsequently published in book form. These STORIES were also performed at live concerts ("readings") in the early '90s. THE UGLY ONE WITH THE JEWELS was recorded at a London reading in 1993.
Accompanied by minimal instrumentation-often Anderson alone on keyboards and violin-she spins her tales. Her stories cover a wide range of topics, but somehow seem to be part of a single, ever-evolving whole. She tells of a bizarre artists' retreat on a small Pacific island ("Word of Mouth"), an ill-fated hitchhiking trip north ("The Geographic North Pole"), and the by-turns amusingand creepy tale of "The Hollywood Strangler", a slightly reworked version of an interlude on her masterpiece, UNITED STATES. Trivia fans should note that pre-eminent ambient soundpainter Brian Eno appears here, guesting on keyboards on "Maria Teresa Teresa Maria".

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best of Laurie Anderson's cd's, 19 April 2001
By shahafb@cet.ac.il (Tel Aviv,Israel) - See all my reviews
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Kind Of Mental Movie, 17 Jul 2004
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars singular, lilting, expressive, emotive, 15 Aug 2005
By c westwood (London) - See all my reviews
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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.
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