These recordings were created utilizing sessions in 2003 with Alan Licht, Christian Marclay and William Hooker, and initially conceived as backing tracks for a live performance by myself and Leah Singer in Vancouver, BC. Four short excerpts were released in 2004 as a 7” on Important Records; each of the 500 copies came with a numbered and signed fine art print as the cover. The following year the full-length piece was released as an exclusive CD which was packaged with select copies of the 10th Anniversary edition of my first book, Road Movies, from Soft Skull Press. In 2015 Important Records released a limited edition of this full piece as a special digi-pak CD. Playing on 'repeat' is encouraged.
--LR 2020
credits
released June 1, 2005
LR: gtr, tapes, edit, mix
Alan Licht: gtr
Christian Marclay: turntables
William Hooker: drums
supported by 10 fans who also own “Ambient Loop For Vancouver”
I was at this gig, and I recall being appalled by the incoherent noodling. Twenty years later, I realize I was just not listening. This is some of the best stuff SY ever put to tape. Toni Laakso
A forward-looking record that imagines the future of Rio de Janeiro, built on intimate textures, ambient, drone, classical, and bossa nova. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 4, 2017