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The Tape-beatles The Tape-beatles on UbuWeb The Grand Delusion (1993) 01 The American adventure 02 Primary delusion 03 America is confident 04 Lament 05 Frog story 06 Mind problems 07 Love 08 Home problems 09 Behold a republic 10 Grave implications 11 Great difficulties 12 Chilling 13 You have to participate 14 Candidate 15 Flowers for dead heroes 16 Thus 17 Back to the start 18 (more difficulties) 19 (the difference) 20 (mother) 21 (help) At the time of its release in 1993, "The Grand Delusion" showed the Tape-beatles setting off in a new musical direction, delivering their most complex and ouright "musical" work to date. The signature found vocals and sound effects are still to be found, but to this they add energetic rhythms, urgent melodic patterns, and plaintive singing voices, using the same modified symphonic structure they applied to their previous major work, Music with Sound. Dean Suzuki, writing in Option no. 57, says: ""...The results are variously chilling, moving, humorous, tragic, outrageous, and always both provocative AND musical. The music works in concert with the spoken texts, just as the piano accompaniment comments upon and supports the text and melody of an art song by Schumann. There is a glut of musique concrete which is just so much noise, but a dearth of that which is as musical as this." The CD includes the entire soundtrack of the Tape-beatles' PolyVision 'expanded cinema' piece, also called "The Grand Delusion". To this has been added a substantial amount of additional audio material to enrich the main themes, which center on how war today is waged as much in the psychological theatre as it is on the battlefield. This, the re-issued version, appearing seven years after its first release, adds some twenty minutes of never-before released works to the track sequence, augmenting the main themes of the work with valuable new contributions. Composed by: Linda Morgan Brown Lloyd Dunn John Heck Ralph Johnson Paul Neff Performed by: Linda Morgan Brown Lloyd Dunn John Heck Ralph Johnson Film by: Lloyd Dunn Additional material at: http://pwp.detritus.net/works/recordings Purchase this item and more at: http://pwp.detritus.net/shop