lee ranaldo: ambient loop for vancouver

"Ambient Loop for Vancouver (2004) is a single, full length track (53'43"), with contributions from Alan Licht on guitar, Christian Marclay on turntables, and William Hooker on drums. It was originally assembled as the 'tape bed' for a performance in Vancouver, Canada of DRIFT, my collaborative film and music presentation with partner Leah Singer, in April 2004. This slowly changing, low volume ambience has since been used in various performance, reading and installation situations over the years. On its own, played on repeat, it creates a quiet shifting atmosphere with certain musical elements returning in different formations across its almost one hour running time. This CD was originally only available packaged inside the 10th Anniversary edition of my first book Road Movies, which was published by Soft Skull Press in 2004. A recently discovered limited overrun of those original CDs is now being made available on its own for the first time. Packaged in a screen printed Arigato pak. Printed and designed at Imprec." --Lee Ranaldo