I’ve Been Remiss...but Now I’m in Remission

 

Caught with my pants down over Mori. I have previously professed my undying love of Ikue Mori & all things Morimusikal. Yet somehow I slid this set on to the back burner from whence after a time it ended up buried in the mountainous heap of dirty dishes.

Way back in December of 2007 I posted up another no-wave offering. This time in the form of DNA. In April 2017 came the first request to post up DNA On DNA that I had mentioned in the by then ten year old post...again from another commenter March 2019...then lastly June this. Well here goes. 

A smoldering slab of some 32 tracks of DNA no-wave goodness. 

(I’ve included a few other gems of twisted double-helix to pay for the cost of failure on this blogger’s part...A Taste of DNA, which are tracks 7 - 12 on DNA On DNA, but here from the original vinyl & Last Live at CBGBs, of which only tracks 31 - 32 are included on DNA On DNA)

DNA - DNA On DNA, No More Records No. 12, 2004.
all decryption codes in comments

You & You
Little Ants
Egomaniac’s Kiss
Lionel
Not Moving
Size
New Fast
Five Thirty
Blonde Red Head
32123
New New
Lying on the Sofa of Life
Grapefruit
Taking Kid to School
Young Tenagers Talk Sex
Delivering the Good
Police Chase
Cop Buys a Donut
Detached (early version)
Low
Nearing
Five Thirty (early version)
Surrender
Newest Fastest
Detached
Brand New
Horse
Forgery
Action
Marshall
A New Low
Calling to Phone

1, 2 from the You & You 7", originally released on Lust/Unlust.
3 to 6 from the No New York compilation.
7 to 12 from A Taste Of DNA, originally released on American Clavé.
13 recorded in an unknown studio in Canada, date unknown.
14 to 18 from the Squat Theatre's Obie winning Mr. Dead & Ms. Free.
19 to 23 live at CBGB's July 23, 1978.
24, 26, 30: Live at Columbia University March 5, 1980.
25, 27 to 29 from the Fiorrucci Tape, date unknown.
31, 32 Live at CBGBs during the final shows on either June 24 or 25, 1982.

DNA - Last Live at CBGBs, Avant Avan 006, 1993.

 
Newest Fastest
Five Thirty
Detach
New New
32123
Brand New
Horse
Forgery
New Fast
Blonde Red Head
Action
Marshall
Lying on the Sofa of Life
Calling to Phone

Recorded 25th June 1982.

DNA - A Taste of DNA, American Clavé — AMCL 1003EP, 1981.

Side 1 -
New Fast
5:30
Blonde Red Head

Side 2 -
32123
New New
Lying on the Sofa of Life

Sorry for my lapse of memory.

Enjoy,
NØ

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Glenn Kenny of Trouser Press wrote: 
     "Around the turn of the decade (1980), Mars leader Sumner Crane corralled a bunch of cohorts (Mark Cunningham, Sumner Crane, & China Burg of Mars along with Ikue Mori & Arto Lindsay of DNA - NØ) and recorded John Gavanti, a no wave adaptation of — get this — Don Giovanni. Some have called this the most unlistenable record ever made, and that's a fine invitation indeed."



Mark Cunningham wrote about the project on his personal website:
     "John Gavanti was, in a sense, a band, as we spent over a year developing and rehearsing the work. It consisted of Sumner Crane, the author of the libretto and songs, Don Burg, alter ego of China Burg, and myself as well as Ikue Mori from DNA. In the recording sessions we also used Arto Lindsay and his brother Duncan on garbage lid percussion for a samba takeoff. Sumner played guitar and piano, Don bass clarinet and I managed to get in trumpet, trombone, baritone horn and tuba. Ikue played the viola and cello. Neither she nor Lucy had ever touched those instruments before. Sumner called the shots generally but the arrangements were collective improvs. We recorded it in NY at Sear Sound, an all vacuum tube studio later popularized by Sonic Youth. It was released on my own label Hyrax in 1980, and sold over the years almost all the 3000 vinyl copies printed. It's now been reissued as a CD on Atavistic."

John Gavanti (Mars & DNA) - John Gavanti, Hyrax Records HY-101, 1980.

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Side 1 -
Overture
I Awake
Down to the Ocean
On Board Ship
Gavanti Samba
Lo! La!
OhAncient Ocean
New York Blues

Side 2 -
Higher & Higher
Africa
Mirror Mirror
Venice / Locus Solus
Gavanti’s Lament
Homeward Bound

Joyeux Brumalia,
NØ