ANIMAL LOVER
THE RESIDENTS
CARLA FABRIZIO
NOLAN COOK
MOLLY HARVEY
with guests:
GREG KELLY
CHRIS GRADY
ANNIE REYNOLDS
KALONICA MCQUESTEN
JEN TAIT
CYNTHIA VAZQUEZ
ERIC OBERTHALER
R. BHAKTI KLEIN
ISABELLE BARBIER
Disk 1: Animal Lover
• On The Way (to Oklahoma)
• Olive and Gray
• What Have My Chickens Done Now?
• Two Lips
• Mr. Bee's Bumble
• Inner Space
• Dead Men
• My Window
• Ingrid's Oily Tongue
• Mother No More
• Dreaming of an Anthill (Teeming)
• Elmer's Song
• The Monkey Man
• The Whispering Boys
• Burn My Bones
Disk 2: ...Imaginary Jack
• (untitled)
Note: The 2nd disk is listed above as "...Imaginary Jack" for convenience, but according to the Cryptic Corporation, the full title is actually the entire text on the disk (see disk for full text). Also according to the Cryptic Corporation, the music of the 2nd disk is "one track" but is divided into 6 parts for the convenience of the listener. So, although there appears to be 6 discrete tracks, it's to be considered one (with a very long title)
Animal Lover Instrumental CD (2008) Ralph America (RA026) USA numbered edition of 1000
• 1. Low Rain 2:11
• 2. Dead Men 3:28
• 3. On the Way (to Oklahoma) 2:12
• 4. Olive and Gray 2:30
• 5. What Have My Chickens Done Now? 2:48
• 6. Two Lips 3:33
• 7. Jack’s Lament 2:18
• 8. Inner Space 3:08
• 9. My Window 2:07
• 10. Ingrid’s Oily Tongue 3:25
• 11. Mother No More 3:00
• 12. Aura Flex 3:31
• 13. Elmer’s Song 6:00
• 14. Monkey Man 5:01
• 15. The Whispering Boy 3:09
• 16. Burn My Bones 5:04
Written by The Residents
Performed by The Residents, Carla Fabrizio, and Nolan Cook
with guests: Greg “FIP” Kelly: harmonica, Chris Grady: trumpet,
and Annie Reynolds: violin
Published by Pale Pachyderm Publishing (BMI)
Special thanks to Robert Schilling and Mute for allowing
this special mix to be released.
Thank you: Wes Cook, Aloke Prabhakar, Kathleen Welter,
Mark Salvatore, Paul Miller, Willy the Mailman, Eric Drew Feldman,
Joujou, Kevin Ink, Big Brother, Dren McDonald
Recorded and mixed in 2004 by The Residents
Distilled from the eL Ralpho Archives
Produced by The Cryptic Corporation
Animal Lover was being developed in 2001 as the follow-up album to Wormwood (1998). The Residents had also gotten interested in the new world of DVD and were spending time fashioning Icky Flix as a compilation of their video work. So the work on Animal Lover was going slowly. Even as The Residents turned the DVD release into a tour (2001), there seemed to be growing questions as to what was going to happen to Animal Lover. For one thing, the material was being written and arranged over and over by different members with different approaches. There seemed to be a lack of clarity as to what the album should sound like.
While The Residents were in Europe touring Icky Flix, the World Trade Center bombings occurred. Though flights were impossible, the group found themselves shaken and wanted to go home.
They stayed in Europe two more weeks and, during that time, developed a new series of songs that became the album Demons Dance Alone (2002).
Whereas Animal Lover still had many questions about what unified it, Demons Dance Alone was immediately addressable. The first thing needing to be done was to document the Animal Lover work so that it could be put into storage and picked back up later if they wanted to continue to work on it.
The existing state of Animal Lover was documented, and tests and experimentations were burned to CDROM. One of the discs that was made was an instrumental version showing off beautiful, lush arrangements. This was released in 2008 as Animal Lover Instrumental. Other backup recordings were also done. The group then launched into the recording of Demons Dance Alone and followed that with a tour.
After the Demons Dance Alone tour ended in 2003, The Residents were uncertain what to tackle next. The path of least resistance was to pull out the old Animal Lover recordings from earlier, but doing something new had a lot of appeal, especially since Animal Lover was not going together easily.
A listening of the AL material encouraged them to continue with that direction. One solution in reconciling the different arrangements was to cut them together like one might cut film to show the music from different sides. The Residents were still resonating from the bombings and the growing war. The world was not a happy place during Animal Lover work, but The Residents had the unifying mood they thought gave the album unity.
Animal Lover was finally finished in the summer of 2005 and released by Mute the following fall.
Imaginary Jack
Lyrics
An Observation
An Opinion
Bach is Dead notes
Press Release
also see:
Imaginary jack
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