Jacqueline Humbert: Daytime Viewing - VINYL LP

Title: Daytime Viewing
Artist: Jacqueline Humbert
Label: Unseen Worlds
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 769256797200
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2023-03-24
Number of Discs: 2

Daytime Viewing (1979-80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra, and as transformational window between imagined spectacle and the pedestrian plane. Originally released as a private cassette edition [recorded, 1982; Chez Hum-Boom release, 1983] documenting the collaborative performance piece of the same name by Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom, this heady, thoroughly enjoyable work is available for the first time ever on CD and LP. Jacqueline Humbert (aka J. Jasmine) is a songwriter of brains and wit on par with Robert Ashley, with whom she's worked extensively. David Rosenboom's complex, harmonic electronic arrangements are accentuated brilliantly by percussion from William Winant. Daytime Viewing can happily be added to a small but significant group of work that, through lesser-known paths, engaged in an equally revelatory reexamination of the Great American Songbook as Minimalism did with 20th Century composition. Mastered by David Rosenboom.

Tracks:
1.1 Talk 1
1.2 Bareback
1.3 Domestic Violence
1.4 Distant Space
1.5 Talk 2
1.6 Wishes
2.1 Narration Theme (Bonus Track)
2.2 Talk 1 Instrumental (Bonus Track)
2.3 Talk 2 Instrumental (Clear Light Beat) [Bonus Track]