Arc (album)
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| Live album by Neil Young | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 North American tour | |||
| Genre | Noise rock Computer music Electronic music |
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| Length | 35:00 | |||
| Label | Reprise/Warner Bros. Records 26769 |
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| Producer | Neil Young | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Arc is a composition of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. Arc bears no small resemblance to the music of Sonic Youth, which was one of the support acts on the tour.
According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse! magazine, Arc had its genesis in a film that Neil made called "Muddy Track" (referred to in an interview with David Fricke in the November 28, 1991, issue of Rolling Stone), which consisted of beginnings and endings of various songs from his 1987 European Tour. Neil placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1987 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs, that were later edited down into the film's soundtrack. "It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Neil said to Martin, referring to the soundtrack of "Muddy Track". Young showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, a noted figure in New York's avant-garde music scene, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with "Muddy Track", but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour.
[edit] Track listing
- "Arc (A Compilation Composition)" – 35:00
A compilation composition by Neil Young
[edit] Personnel
- Neil Young: guitar, vocals, computer, feedback
- Frank "Poncho" Sampedro: guitar, univox stringman, vocals
- Billy Talbot: bass, vocals
- Ralph Molina: drums, vocals
- Sal Trentino: electronics
[edit] References
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. Arc (album) at Allmusic
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