Negativland – It's All In Your Head CD

It’s All In Your Head intends to entertain, inform and provoke, mixing found music, found sound, found dialogue, guest personalities and original electronic noises in a compelling and thoughtful musical essay that looks at monotheism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, neuroscience, suicide bombers, 9/11, colas, war, shaved chimps and the all-important role played by the human brain in our beliefs. Reading the attached Bible is optional.

The audio is presented as a live radio broadcast (modeled after Negativland’s weekly Over the Edge radio program on KPFA FM in Berkeley, CA) that, in an effort to gain listeners, proposes that there is no God. This theater-of-the-mind project has been carefully crafted from basic tracks recorded live in front of blindfolded studio audiences, and documents the unique style of live collage performances that Negativland has been presenting on stages, and on radio, since the formation of the group in 1980.

Following its last major release, the Our Favorite Things compilation DVD in 2008, Negativland has kept busy with its weekly radio program, lectures, art gallery shows and live performances in the US and Europe. Currently in the works are several different studio albums, including Negativland’s all-electronic Booper Symphonies, two brand new Over the Edge album releases, and a new touring live show with upcoming performances at festivals such as Bumbershoot (2014) and Moogfest (2015).

Label: Seeland – SEELAND 030

Format: 2 x CD, Album

Country: US

Released: Oct 28, 2014

Genre: Electronic, Non-Music

Style: Musique Concrète, Sound Collage, Noise, Radioplay, Comedy

Tracklist

Acts I

1-1 Sign-On 1:55

1-2 In The Beginning 6:36

1-3 Relatively Optimistic Notions 6:22

1-4 The Way We Know Things 9:49

1-5 Jar The Ear 4:11

1-6 Alone With Just A Story 5:24

1-7 Viewpoint 2:02

1-8 Time Can Do So Much 5:24

1-9 Wildlife Tonight 8:44

Acts II

2-1 New Management 1:04

2-2 We're All Muhammads Now 10:13

2-3 Holy War 3:39

2-4 This Thing Is Not Good 6:26

2-5 Right Might 4:08

2-6 Antinomian Phase 2:32

2-7 Push The Button 8:46

2-8 I Gotta Be Me 3:01

2-9 The Smell Of Onions 10:41

2-10 Sign-Off 1:51