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Lixiviation (Ciani / Musica Inc. 1969-1985)

An archive anthology compiled by Andy Votel, from secret music to television and corporate sound design.
Suzanne Ciani, 2012

Andy Votel of Finders Keepers compiled it with Ciani's cooperation, and Finders Keepers describes it as compiling and recontextualising both secret music and commercial experiments never documented on vinyl or CD. MusicBrainz dates the digital release February 15, 2012 and a US B-Music release February 28, 2012; Discogs gives the CD as BMS040 on February 28, with Votel's liner essay and Ciani's track notes in a 12-page booklet, and a copyright of 2011. The Line of Best Fit's Robert Barry gave 7.5 out of 10, finding it stranger and more commercially oriented than its pastoral opening suggests. Track 11 is a live Buchla concert from 1975, and the sound-design items include the Atari video games logo, a Coca-Cola logo and television spots. The order of "Second Breath" and "Sound of Wetness" differs between MusicBrainz and Discogs, so we do not state their durations.

Track listing

  1. Lixiviation4:12
  2. Atari Video Games Logo0:07
  3. 'Clean Room' ITT TV Spot0:57
  4. Almay 'Eclipse' TV Spot0:29
  5. Paris 19716:51
  6. Sound of a Dream Kissing0:52
  7. Atari Corporate Tag0:12
  8. Princess with Orange Feet3:29
  9. 'Pop & Pour' Coca-Cola Logo0:07
  10. Discover(y) Magazine TV Spot0:22
  11. Live Buchla Concert 19751:48
  12. 'Inside Story' PBS TV Spot0:23
  13. 'Liberator' Atari TV Spot0:30
  14. Eighth Wave3:33
  15. Second Breath
  16. Sound of Wetness

More from Suzanne Ciani

Voices Of Packaged Souls (1970), Seven Waves (1982), The Velocity Of Love (1986), Neverland (1988), History Of My Heart (1989), Pianissimo (1990), Hotel Luna (1991), Dream Suite (1994), Pianissimo II (1996), Turning (1999), Pianissimo III (2001), Silver Ship (2005), Buchla Concerts 1975 (2016), Music For Denali (2020), Improvisation On Four Sequences At Festival Antigel (2021), Improvisation On Four Sequences (2023)

Sources

  1. Suzanne Ciani, Lixiviation, The Line of Best Fit (2012-02-07)
  2. Suzanne Ciani: Lixiviation, Synthtopia (2012-02-09)