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Five American Portraits
Studio album by The Red Krayola with Art & Language
Released January 26, 2010
Recorded
Studio


Label Drag City
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Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Portrait of Wile E. Coyote"5:03
2."Portrait of President George W. Bush"12:16
3."Portrait of President Jimmy Carter"5:59
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Portrait of John Wayne"15:05
2."Portrait of Ad Reinhardt"5:49
Total length:44:12

Background

Mayo Thompson, 2010[1]

Those are all people chosen by Art & Language, and they generated those texts for paintings that they were making, for works that they were making. And we’ve done so many things over the years together they thought perhaps I might like to try to put it to music. They sent it to me and I did want to do it. And so that’s the way it happened. But they made the selections.

Related works by Art & Language

  • "Portrait of President George W. Bush in the Style of Jackson Pollock" 2006
    "Portrait of President George W. Bush in the Style of Jackson Pollock" 2006
  • "Portraits of John Wayne, Jimmy Carter, Ad Reinhardt and Wile E. Coyote" 2007[2]
    "Portraits of John Wayne, Jimmy Carter, Ad Reinhardt and Wile E. Coyote" 2007[2]
  • "Five American Background Songs" 2009-10[3]
    "Five American Background Songs" 2009-10[3]
  • "Part of an American Portrait" 2013[4]
    "Part of an American Portrait" 2013[4]
  • "Tell Me, Have You Ever Seen Me? II, Xi Jinping" 2014
    "Tell Me, Have You Ever Seen Me? II, Xi Jinping" 2014
  • "Map to Not Indicate" 1967
    "Map to Not Indicate" 1967

Personnel

The Red Krayola

Additional musicians

  • Dan Cox - backing vocals
  • Matt Ingram - backing vocals
  • Fred Somsen - backing vocals

Technical

  • Dan Cox - engineering
  • Matt Ingram - engineering
  • Mayo Thompson - mixing
  • Butchy Fuego - mixing
  • Rian Murphy - mixing

Retrospectives

Butchy Fuego, 2011[5]

I had been a fan of Mayo Thompson's prolific output for years, and had the opportunity to assist Mayo & Drag City on a previous project which I'm not at liberty to discuss due to a non-disclosure agreement. What I can say about it is that it involved time travel, another legendary avant-guardian and an agent of "the company" assisting my efforts. Mixing Five American Portraits at my studio Top Cat International was a joy and a breeze. DC mogul Rian Murphy was in the house simultaneously cracking the whip and jokes. Mayo was in rare form executing his laser-like vision over the session. The combination of The Raincoats' Gina Birch and the ever-confounding aural collaborations of The Red Krayola with Art & Language proves to be a potent combination. DON'T MESS WITH MAYO.

Reviews

Prefix

January 12, 2010[6]

Mike Wood

Dusted

January 20, 2010[7]

Jon Dale

Pitchfork

January 25, 2010[8]

Andrew Gaerig

PopMatters

January 25, 2010[9]

Richard Elliott

Philadelphia Inquirer

January 31, 2010[10]

A.D. Amorosi

AllMusic

Thom Jurek[11]

Uncut

March, 2010[12]

OutsideLeft

April, 2010[13]

Alex V. Cook

References

  1. ↑ https://larecord.com/interviews/2010/03/18/mayo-thompson-the-man-from-mars
  2. ↑ https://www.artsy.net/artwork/art-and-language-portraits-of-john-wayne-jimmy-carter-ad-reinhardt-and-wile-e-coyote
  3. ↑ https://www.artsy.net/artwork/art-and-language-five-american-background-songs
  4. ↑ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-part-of-an-american-portrait-p82091
  5. ↑ https://redkrayolaartandlanguage.bandcamp.com/album/five-american-portraits
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100202160745/http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/the-red-krayola-with-art-language/five-american-portraits/35078/
  7. ↑ http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5469
  8. ↑ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13854-five-american-portraits/
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120419150225/http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/118898-the-red-krayola-with-art-language/
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200725214646/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20100131_New_Recordings.html
  11. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/five-american-portraits-mw0001954602
  12. ↑ Uncut Mar 2010, p.93
  13. ↑ https://outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=1239
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