Culture-jamming band returns to store shelves with new
album “It’s All In Your Head,” about belief in God, this fall.
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Download the master tracks here
to start re-inventing Negativland’s “U2” single
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San Francisco bay area-based culture-jamming band, Negativland, has broken its silence
regarding the passing of Casey Kasem. The late radio legend who passed on Father’s
Day was featured prominently on Negativland’s
1991 maxi-single “U2,” which for
better or worse, has been a touchstone of the band’s career ever since.
In tribute, Negativland
is offering
the original multi-track master of the song for free
download with the intent of allowing anyone and everyone to re-work the
seminal track. The band encourages this link to the files to be re-posted and
shared. Read
more about the “U2” single and
listen today courtesy of Slicing
Up Eyeballs. A full statement from the band’s legal team can be found
below.
Negativland has been back in the public eye recently as it preps
a new album It’s All In Your Head for fall release this October. For more
recent Negativland activities and
topics of conversation, see the recent feature pieces on the band in Noisey
and East
Bay Express, an interview with Jake
Fogelnest on his Fogelnest Files
podcast, and the two-week spanning cover story from the Santa Cruz Weekly (1
| 2).
Negativland will be deep in the heart of Texas for a series of
shows this week. See below for dates and
info. Album details are forthcoming, but
in typical Negativland fashion, It’s
All In Your Head and its faith-examining content about belief in God, will
be sure to spark conversation.
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Members of
Negativland pose with their attorney, Hal Stakke
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From: Hal Stakke, Legal Counsel/Seeland
Records
Subject: In Memoriam, Kemal Amin “Casey”
Kasem (27 April 1932 – 15 June 2014): Negativland releases “U2” tracks for
remixing and reuse
One of the most beloved voices in music radio, Kemal Amin “Casey” Kasem, died on
Fatherʼs Day 2014 after a long illness, and also a very public family squabble
over his continuing care. Negativland
pays tribute to this broadcasting legend by reaching into its vaults and
presenting what is perhaps Kasemʼs
best-known work, on Negativlandʼs
long-unavailable “U2” maxi-single,
offering up for public consumption (and now, for creative reuse) what has been
hidden from view for 23 years.
In 1991, Negativlandʼs
“U2” single had one of the shortest
releases in music history, squashed like a bug after less than ten days on
store shelves, under legal fire from the Irish rock band U2ʼs music publisher (Warner/Chappell)
and then-record label (Island). The
history of this fracas was detailed in Negativland’s
book and CD release, “Fair
Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2” (Seeland 013).
Now, instead of merely reissuing the “U2” record itself, Negativland presents, for free digital download,
the original un-mixed studio multi-track tape for re-mixing, re-purposing and
re-inventing in whichever way the listener may choose. Negativland encourages the re-contextualization of this seminal
work for whatever reason, whatsoever. In keeping with the working methods and philosophy
of Negativland, and the Fair Use
provision in U.S. Copyright Law (Section 107, http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html),
the group offers up this raw material in the hopes that entirely new versions
of the work are created and disseminated.
Listeners / remixers are encouraged to post their
creations in these locations: www.negativland.com and https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland.
The original record as briefly released in 1991 may be heard via the band’s
website here
or via YouTube here.
Negativland is a San Francisco Bay Area-based group which has
been making music and collage since 1980, releasing more than 25 albums on CD
and LP on their own Seeland record label.
Their newest work, Itʼs All In Your Head, a long-form “collage documentary” about
belief in God, will be released on Seeland
in October.
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Negativland Live
06/18 Houston, TX Aurora Picture Show (INFO)
06/19 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse (INFO)
06/20 Austin, TX Red 7 (INFO)
06/21 Dallas, TX The Texas Theatre (INFO)
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Negativland Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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