Deliverance

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Deliverance is a 1996 compilation of unreleased Red Krayola recordings compiled by Albert Oehlen and released on his label Leiterwagen.

Track listing

	Title		Notes	Est. year	Original release
1.	"Intro"	1:19	Speculation: An outtake of the counting section of "14"? Sample: Deliverance (1972)	1993
2.	"Boogie"	4:06	Alternate instrumental mix Sample: Deliverance (1972)	1996	Hazel
3.	"Woof"	4:58	Remix of an outtake from Corky's Debt to His Father	1970/1996
4.	"Organize"	2:28	Speculation: An outtake from The Red Crayola on Forty-Five?	1993
5.	"Decaf the Planet"	2:16	Alternate take Sample: Deliverance (1972)	1996	Hazel
6.	"Voodoo Child"	1:40	Demo	1994	The Red Krayola
7.	"If 'S' Is"	2:43	Demo	1994	The Red Krayola
8.	"Guitar I"	0:17
9.	"Olympia Act I"	5:03	Speculation: Demo of music for Victorine? 4:05 bass riff from "Sherlock Holmes"	1994
10.	"Guitar II"	1:23	Guitar backing track from "Natura Facit Saltus"	1975	Corrected Slogans
11.	"Cluster"	2:19	Demo/instrumental alternate take of "Luster"	1995	Amor and Language
12.	"Hurricane Fighterplane"	2:45	Rerecording, likely by Thompson and Oehlen as a duo Sample: "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock		The Parable of Arable Land

Background

"Authorized Bootleg"

Personnel

Technical

• Albert Oehlen (as Wendy Gondeln) - mixing and compiling

Reviews

Spex

January 1997

Diedrich Diederichsen

[...] "Deliverance" ist eine von einem Bandmitglied unter dem Namen Wendy Gondeln zusammengestellte Platte mit Material aus 27 Jahren RK-Geschichte in unveröffentlichten Versionen, von dem alten Hit "Hurricane Fighter Plane" bis zu "Boogie" (um das Thema des Thompson-Klassikers "A Portrait Of V.I.Lenin In The Style Of Jackson Pollock, Part 2" herum angelegt) und "Decaf The Planet" von "Hazel". Auch das gehört offensichtlich zum neuen Produktionsverständnis bei RK, daß sich jederzeit jeder an dem Materialfundus interessant vergreifen kann.

»Interessant« gerade in Bezug auf diese neue reguläre Platte, die beste Red Krayola ever, ist der Song "Organize". Hatte Thompson schon in den Siebzigern, etwa bei "Ergastulum" von der Red Crayola/Art-&-Language-LP von '76 (später in anderen Versionen), die Marxsche Mehrwert-Theorie zu einer Folk-Melodie gesungen, hört man ihn hier auf "Organize" einen anderen marxistischen Text erst zu Musik sprechen und dann eigenartig feierlich in Gesang übergehen. Genau dieses alte und relativ plakative Experiment zur Frage der Mitteilbarkeit von »Inhalten« und dem Status von Musik und Text in Songs steht am Anfang einer Entwicklung, deren ausgereiftes Zwischenergebnis dieser Platte ihre Autorität verleiht. Wer mit Text und Musik arbeitet, kommt daran sicherlich einige Jahre nicht vorbei.

Earpiece

Summer 1999

b. wildered

deliverance is reportedly an "authorized bootleg" of recordings dating 1969-1996, compiled by the psuedonymous wendy gondeln. is this mayo? david grubbs? the puzzle remains unsolved here at earpeace world headquarters. the mystery continues as the drag city logo appears beneath the cd. however, the folks at the a-musik collective in cologne, germany claim this as one of their (leiterwagen) releases. anyway, i am pleased to have access to this compilation. it features somewhat unfinished sounding versions of several songs from the drag city releases, woof, which has also appeared on a single included with a certain british psychedelic magazine, and a piece called olympia act 1, which is the only recorded evidence i have been able to unearth of the red krayola with art & language opera, olympia, which reported ly concerns a murder in manet's paris. in between these are snippets from, you guessed it, the movie "deliverance". my suspicion is that this is a way to release some of the archival stuff for which some of the rights remain nebulous. by the way, what ever happened to drag city's reissue of malefactor, ade, the 1989 record which originated in germany and was released on glass records? do i sense legal difficulties?