Calling the re-release of Fingerpainting a re-issue is a bit misleading and for that we apologize. However, let us explain:
Ten years ago, Jim O'Rourke (known for ruining records) created a unique mix of the Red Krayola's Fingerpainting album. Mayo Thompson wasn't feeling O'Rourke's vision and shelved the mixes. Mayo recently unearthed the material, listened with new ears, and fell in love. Apparently so did the folks at Drag City as they'll unleash the O'Rourked Fingerpointing (not Fingerpainting this go-round) later this year.
FINGERPOINTING follows The Red Krayola's ur- formula, first elaborated in The Parable of Arable Land (1967), designed to immerse and entertain the listener and confound the FM DJ's and anyone else's quest for the perfect seque in a narrative of counter - cultural meaningfulness. Where FINGERPAINTING reiterates the structure and the same material of FINGERPAINTING. It too is a parade of freak outs and songs alternately, and, like its progenitors, a dynamic synthesis that puts in play all that is at stake in the musical relation under the rubric of entertainment.
The songs are by Frederick Bathleme, Steve Cunningham and Mayo Thompson. The freak outs are not 'authored' in the usual sense. All of the music was recorded at Treehouse Studio in Pasadena, CA at the same time as the recording of FINGERPAINTING. It features the performances of David Grubbs, George Hurley, Albert Oehlen, Stephen Prina, Elisa Randazzo, Mayo Thompson, Tom Watson and Sandy Yang. The mix is by Jim O'Rourke.
Track Listing:
FFF00
BAD MEDICINE
FFF01
THERE THERE BETTY BETTY
FFF02
VILE VILE GRASS
FFF03
MOTHER
IN MY BABY'S RUTH
FFF04
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