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David Byrne – Music For The Knee Plays

Label:	ECM Records – 1-25022, ECM Records – 9 25022-1 E
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1985
Genre:	Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style:	Contemporary Jazz

Tracklist

A1	Tree (Today Is An Important Occasion)	4:02
A2	In The Upper Room Arranged By – The Baptist Methodist Choir Church Of God	3:35
A3	The Sound Of Business	6:15
A4	Social Studies	4:52
A5	(The Gift Of Sound) Where The Sun Never Goes Down Arranged By – Clara Hudman "The Georgia Peach"*	2:34
A6	Theadora Is Dozing Arranged By – Ensemble Of The Bulgarian Republic	2:59
B1	Admiral Perry	5:32
B2	I Bid You Goodnight Arranged By – The Pindar Family	2:51
B3	I've Tried Arranged By – Swan's Silvertone Singers*	3:24
B4	Winter	6:11
B5	Jungle Book	3:38
B6	In The Future	6:35

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sire Records Company
Copyright © – Sire Records Company
Copyright © – Robert Wilson (2)
Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Published By – Index Music, Inc.
Recorded At – One On One Studios
Recorded At – Studio Sound Recorders
Mixed At – RPM Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Credits

Arranged By – David Blumberg, David Byrne
Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Fields, Bill Green*
Composed By – David Byrne (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B1, B4 to B6), Trad.* (tracks: A2, A5, A6, B2, B3)
Conductor [Conducted By] – David Blumberg
Design – David Byrne
Design [With] – Michael Hodgson (2)
Drums – Paul Humphrey
Engineer – Joel Moss, Mark Wolfson
Illustration [Cover Drawing] – Robert Wilson (2)
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By – David Byrne, Dominick Maita
Mixed By [Assistant] – Mike Krowiak
Percussion – Bobbye Hall
Photography By [Backsleeve Bottom] – Glenn Halvorson
Photography By [Backsleeve Top] – JoAnn Verburg
Producer – David Byrne
Saxophone – Don Myrick (tracks: A1 to A4, B5), Ernie Watts (tracks: A1 to A4, B5), Jackie Kelso (tracks: A5 to B4, B6), Pete Christlieb
Trombone – Dana Hughes, David Stout, Fred Wesley, Garnett Brown, Phil Teil*
Trumpet – Chuck Findley (tracks: A1 to A4, B5), Harry Kim (tracks: A5 to B4), Nolan Smith, Ray Brown (2), Rich Cooper
Voice – David Byrne

Notes

Complete title on front sleeve: "Music for 'The Knee Plays' by Robert Wilson and David Byrne from Robert Wilson's 'The CIVIL WarS': A tree is best measured when it is down"

This music was inspired by the [url=http://http://www.discogs.com/artist/272920]Dirty Dozen Brass Band[/url] of New Orleans
First produced and performed at The Walker Centre, Minneapolis April 26, 27, 28, 1984
Choreographed by Suzushi Hanayagi

Recorded:
One On One Studio, North Hollywood, April 4, 1984
Engineer: Mark Wolfson
Studio Sound Recorders, North Hollywood, April 5 & 6, 1984
Engineer: Joel Moss
Mixed at RPM Studio, December 8-17, 1984
Originally Mastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y.
This album was digitally mastered

Cover Drawing, 19 1/4" x 26 1/8" © 1984 Robert Wilson, courtesy of the Paula Cooper Gallery
Performance Photographs © 1984 JoAnn Verburg (Top), and Glenn Halvorson (Bottom), courtesy of the Walker Art Center

©℗ 1985 Sire Records Company
Published by Index Music, Inc. ASCAP
Manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
Some copies have blue and white sticker stating pressed in England on shrink with DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) a trademark of Teldec.

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Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 7599-25022-1
Barcode (Scanned): 075992502214
Price Code (On spine): $9.98
Matrix / Runout (Variation 1 A runout): 9252871 A-1-1- // #3 // 1-25022 // 44167A SM #1 // D
Matrix / Runout (Variation 1 B runout): 9252871 B-1-1- // SUBMA 1 // 1-25022 // #3 // 44167 B SM #1 // D
Matrix / Runout (Variation 2 A runout): 9252871 A-1-1-2- D
Matrix / Runout (Variation 2 B runout): 9252871 B-1-1-1- D
Matrix / Runout (Variation 3 A runout): 9252871 A-1-1- 44167 SM 2 D #10
Matrix / Runout (Variation 3 B runout): 9252871 B-1-1- SUBMA 1 1-25022 #10 44167 B SM#1 D

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Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Music For The Knee Plays (LP, Album)	Zonophone	064-24 0381 1	Europe	1985
Music For The Knee Plays (LP, Album)	Regal Zonophone	EJ 240381 1	UK	1985
Music For The Knee Plays (Cassette, Album)	Regal Zonophone	EJ 240381 4	UK	1985
Music For The Knee Plays (LP, Album)	Zonophone, Zonophone	EMS-91127, EJ 240381 1	Japan	1985
Music For The Knee Plays (Cassette, Album)	ECM Records	ECM 4-25022	US	1985

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all4vinyl Aug 25, 2020

My copy has a promo stamp front cover along with a round half blue/half white sticker stating PRESSED IN ENGLAND and Direct Metal Mastering DMM. Sound is superb. Trailoff differs also:
9252871 A-1-1-2 . : D
9252871 B-1-1-1-X1 D

michael-piel Jun 3, 2020

Edited 2 years ago

my copy is a very bad pressing, even after machinewashing it there is a lot of crisps, high frequenzies are distorted