Lou was under contract to produce two more albums for his record company at the time, and he wanted out. They didn't want to release him from the contract, and his response was to record a double album and drop it on them.
They then published it without checking the content. Lou became free from his contract, and went where he wanted to.
The album was recorded using various feedback loops to make the originally random playing as distorted and meaningless as possible, and I suspect that the record company did not make much in the way of sales, but it has become in its own small way a kind of classic; not that Lou did or tried to do anything special, it was a scam; but it just happens to suit the way people feel sometimes when they are in the mood! :)
:: is old ::
Now what about that poet's collective? I get days when I can see the point.
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Date: 2009-05-25 06:36 pm (UTC)Lou was under contract to produce two more albums for his record company at the time, and he wanted out. They didn't want to release him from the contract, and his response was to record a double album and drop it on them.
They then published it without checking the content. Lou became free from his contract, and went where he wanted to.
The album was recorded using various feedback loops to make the originally random playing as distorted and meaningless as possible, and I suspect that the record company did not make much in the way of sales, but it has become in its own small way a kind of classic; not that Lou did or tried to do anything special, it was a scam; but it just happens to suit the way people feel sometimes when they are in the mood! :)
:: is old ::
Now what about that poet's collective? I get days when I can see the point.