Gideon, Alexis

Sun Wu-kong

2LP + DVD. A one-hour multimedia video opera based on the 16th-century Chinese novel "The Journey to the West," "Video Musics II" joins the brightest lights of contemporary animation (Becca Taylor (Punk Planet, Arthur); Cynthia Star (Coraline, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken); Ezra Claytan Daniels (Darkhorse Comics, Top Shelf Comics)) with the most promising talents of contemporary music (Rachel Blumberg (M Ward, Arch Cape); Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Carcrashlander); Shelley Short (Hush)) to create an aural and visual universe that gleefully transcends both media. Is it film or music, high art or pop? Gideons work would fit snugly at either the Whitney Biennial or SXSW, which is to say it cannot be contained, really, by either venue. Marked throughout by the ambition, commitment to detail, and refusal to settle that have earned Gideon a cult following on both sides of the pond. Alexis Gideon has toured nationally with Dan Deacon and Shelley Short as well as played with Barr, Marnie Stern, Panther, Parts and Labor, Zs, People, Matt and Kim, and many, many others.

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Genre
Format
L+D - 3 disk
Release date
07-03-2011
Label
Item-nr
416007
EAN
8033706218761
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. VISION 1
2. BIRTH OF THE JADE MONKEY
3. FLOAT AWAY
4. SPIRIT TOWER HEART MOUNTAIN
5. RETURN TO FLOWER FRUIT MOUNTAIN
6. SUN WU-KONGS DREAM
7. HEAVEN
8. WAR AGAINST HEAVEN
9. CAPTURE AND PUNISHMENT
10. VISION 2
11. THE BALLAD OF KUANG-JUI
12. DARK WATERS
13. FLOAT AWAY
14. RIVERFLOAT BECOMES A MONK
15. LADY YINS DREAM
16. RIVERFLOAT BECOMES TRIPITAKA
17. THE JOURNEY BEGINS
18. BOQIN AND HIS MOTHERS DREAM
19. BOQIN ACCOMPANIES TRIPITAKA
20. MASTER AND DISCIPLE
21. FIRE MONASTERY
22. PA-CHIEH
23. SHA MONK
24. KUAN YINS THEME
25. FLOAT AWAY
26. MOUNTAIN OF INFINITE LONGEVITY
27. THE GINSENG TREE
28. ISLANDS OF THE IMMORTALS
29. KUAN YINS THEME
30. FLASHES
31. WU-KONG IS SENT AWAY
32. RETURN OF THE KING
33. YELLOW ROBE
34. BATTLE
35. UNLIKELY TRANSFORMATIONS
36. KUAN YINS THEME
37. FLOAT AWAY
38. SEASONS
39. NIGHTS OF SONG
40. VULTURE PEAK AND ENLIGHTENMENT