“It’s All In Your Head,” culture-jamming band’s first
album release in six years, asks why humans believe in God.
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Some of the members of Negativland. Photo credit:
Negativland.
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“Right Might” is taken from the upcoming
Negativland release It’s All In Your Head,
arriving October 28th
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The
Onion’s A.V. Club has the exclusive premiere of Negativland’s “Right Might”
here!
See
the trailer for the new Negativland album It’s All In Your Head via Dangerous
Minds!
“Right Might,” a selection from Negativland’s
new double album It’s All In Your Head, is a goofy riff on imperialism (and
minimalism), war mongering, and intolerance. But what is the origin of the “found
sound” voices used to make it?
Years ago, Negativland
was contacted by an insider at the Disney
corporation who had access to the entire audio archives of Disneyland and Disney World.
He was a fan of the Negativland’s
work, and asked the band if they wanted anything from the Disney audio archive.
“Hell, yes!” Negativland
replied. “Send along anything from Disney attractions that are long gone,
or any audio out-takes, bloopers, background sounds, music cues, etc.” Soon,
the group received a custom-made set of almost 100 CD-R’s, an unbelievable
treasure trove of great material – all completely unheard by the outside world
– for Negativland to pick from.
One of the tracks was the raw and un-edited recording
sessions for “Great Moments with Mr.
Lincoln”, an attraction that Disney
first opened in 1964 at the New York
World’s Fair, and was later moved to Main Street in Disneyland in 1965.
“Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln” famously became known as the world’s first
Audio-Animatronic robot, and what Negativland
had on its hands was a recording of actor Royal
Dano, the voice talent for the Lincoln
robot, heard being directed and cued by the producer of the recording session
for the attraction.
Negativland took that never-meant-to-be-heard session and
severely re-edited it into what you now hear on “Right Might”.
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Negativland’s new album, It’s All In Your Head, finds the
group tackling their biggest subject ever: why humans believe in God. Millennia-in-development, this ambitious and
densely-crafted double CD is packaged inside an actual Holy Bible which has
been appropriately repurposed into a “found” art object.
It’s
All In Your Head intends to
entertain, inform, and provoke. On the
CDs, Negativland mixes found music,
found sound, found dialogue, guest personalities and original electronic noises
into a compelling and thoughtful musical essay that looks at monotheism,
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, neuroscience, suicide bombers, 9/11, colas, war,
shaved chimps, and the all-important role played by the human brain in our
beliefs. Reading the attached Bible is optional.
The audio is presented as a live radio broadcast,
modeled after Negativland’s weekly “Over the Edge” radio program on KPFA FM in Berkeley, CA. This
theater-of-the-mind project has been carefully crafted from basic tracks
recorded live in front of blindfolded studio audiences, and documents the
unique style of live collage performances that Negativland has been presenting on stages, and on radio, since the
formation of the group in 1980.
Since its previous album release six years ago, Negativland has kept busy with its
weekly radio program, lectures, art gallery shows and live performances in the
U.S. and Europe. Currently in the works
are several different studio albums, including Negativland’s all-electronic “Booper
Symphonies,” two brand new “Over the
Edge” album releases, more art shows, and a new touring live show called “Content!” which recently played
to a capacity audience at Seattle‘s
Bumbershoot Festival.
Members of Negativland are available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more
information.
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Negativland
It’s
All In Your Head
(Seeland Records – Oct. 28th)
Track Listing:
ACTS I:
I. Sign-On (1:55)
II. In the Beginning (6:36)
III. Relatively Optimistic Notions (6:22)
IV: The Way We Know Things (9:50)
V: Jar the Ear (4:12)
VI: Alone With Just a Story (5:24)
VII: Viewpoint (2:02)
VIII: Time Can Do So Much (5:24)
IX: Wildlife Tonight (8:45)
ACTS II:
I. New Management (1:05)
II. We’re All Mohammads Now (10:14)
III. Holy War (3:39)
IV: This Thing Is Not Good (6:26)
VI: Antinomian Phase (2:32)
VII: Push the Button (8:46)
VIII: I Gotta Be Me (3:01)
IX: The Smell of Onions (10:42)
X: Sign-Off (1:51)
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Negativland Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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