“Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out” offers an intimate unedited solo live performance recorded at Phill Niblocks Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85. Phill curated and produced with Arthur two concerts at EI that would become an integral part of the foundation for the final World of Echo album. Arthur titled this performance “Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out”. This extraordinary performance was recorded by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986. “Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didnt play “for” the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself…and a few of us just happened to be present” – Tom Lee “Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out” Plus the complete “Sketches For World Of Echo” (originally published in 2020 as a cassette and DL) available for the first time on CD. (Double CD digipack + full colour insert and liner notes.) Tracklisting: Disc One Sketches for World of Echo Changing Forest Let’s Go Swimming They and Their Friends Keeping Up Make 1,2 I Take This Time Losing My Taste For The Nightlife I Can’t Hide You The Boy with a Smile On His Face Sunlit Water Disc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out That’s The Very Reason Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home Happy Ending All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down Introductions Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell Too Early To Tell
