Replicas Rubato: Piano interpretations of Gary Numan titles, by Terre Thaemlitz

Replicas Rubato: Piano interpretations of Gary Numan titles

by Terre Thaemlitz

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Elysian Fields - KXCI 91.3 FM This album is a wonderful gift. The act of listening to this recording served as a reintroduction to Gary Numan's music. Also, the care with which these songs were interpreted resulted in a recording that (IMHO) should be considered one of the gems of any GN fan collection. Favorite track: Cry the Clock Said.

Mister Meows A wonderful sad feeling. Alone music. Favorite track: Cars.

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1.	Stormtrooper In Drag 05:36	info
2.	Down In the Park 06:17	info
3.	Dream of Siam 06:05	info
4.	Friends 02:32	info
5.	Sister Surprise 04:18	info
6.	Cars 06:11	info
7.	Cry the Clock Said 09:38	info
8.	Praying to the Aliens 06:06	info
9.	Slowcar to China 03:22	info
10.	Jo the Waiter 04:17	info
11.	Please Push No More 06:57	info
12.	(Silent pause before hidden bonus track on original CD) 04:46	info
13.	Hidden Bonus Track 06:16	info

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The second of three albums in the Rubato Series, which featured piano interpretations of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan and DEVO respectively. "Rubato" refers to music performance that does not adhere to a strict sense of time. From the original accompanying essay (included as PDF):

I purchased my first record in 1979 at the age of eleven after hearing Gary Numan's, "Cars," in the now defunct Saints West roller disco in West Saint Paul, Minnesota. Its performance was ceremoniously accompanied by a flood of flashing colored bulbs and swirls of light rings from the mirror ball. With some sleuthing I discovered that the song was not performed by The Cars, as I had first suspected, and eventually located a copy of Numan's record, The Pleasure Principle, in a Target discount store. The album was newly released and fully priced at $6.99, which was more money than I had saved for it. Without hesitation, I removed a fluorescent red "$3.99" tag from another record, covered the true price tag, and proceeded to buy it. And so my consumer relationship to music began with a lie at worst, an ambiguous half-truth at best, an exuberant deception in the name of self-fulfillment in any case. The Pleasure Principle.

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released August 23, 1999

Originally released under license from Comatonse Recordings in 1999 as a CD and Vinyl (Germany: Mille Plateaux, August 23 1999), CD: MPCD71, Vinyl: MPLP71. Contracts have since expired and all rights reverted. Recorded at Meow, Oakland. Produced, mixed and arranged by T. Thaemlitz. Publishing by G. Numan. Design and image manipulation by Terre.

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