Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: UW46LP
Barcode: 0769256797200
Release Date: 31 Mar 2023
Genre: Balearic/Downtempo

TRACKLIST:
A1. Talk 1
A2. Bareback
A3. Domestic Violence
B1. Distance Space
B2. Talk 2
B3. Wishes
C1. Narration Theme
D1. Talk 1 Instrumental
D2. Talk 2 Instrumental (Clear Light Beat)

Standard weight black vinyl – Includes 16 page booklet with lyrics and additional artwork • Download code included

40th Anniversary Edition - newly remastered from the master tapes, with an additional bonus LP of instrumentals and the previously unreleased "Narration Theme."

Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra, and as transformational window between imagined spectacle and the pedestrian plane.

Originally released as a private cassette edition [recorded, 1982; Chez Hum-Boom release, 1983] documenting the collaborative performance piece of the same name by Jacqueline Humbert g David Rosenboom. This heady, thoroughly enjoyable work was first made available on CD and LP in 2013 by Unseen Worlds. Jacqueline Humbert (aka J. Jasmine) is a songwriter of brains and wit on par with Robert Ashley, with whom she's worked extensively. David Rosenboom's complex, harmonic electronic arrangements are accentuated brilliantly by percussion from William Winant. Daytime Viewing can happily be added to a small but significant group of work that, through lesser-known paths, engaged in an equally revelatory reexamination of the Great American Songbook as Minimalism did with 20th Century composition.