{"id":3715,"date":"2016-06-14T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/anna-homler-steve-moshier-breadwoman-other-tales-lp\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T03:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:53:28","slug":"anna-homler-steve-moshier-breadwoman-other-tales-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/anna-homler-steve-moshier-breadwoman-other-tales-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Homler & Steve Moshier – Breadwoman & Other Tales – LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Breadwoman & Other Tales”<\/strong> are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler<\/b> divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier<\/b>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1982 and Anna is driving an ocean blue classic Cadillac to meet renowned poet and playwright Deena Metzger<\/b> in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles. Passing a non-descript desert patch where tall wheat and mustard flowers grow, Anna opens her mouth and sings in a salient stream of rhythmic, melodic sound.<\/p>\n

Breadwoman is born, but not by immaculate conception. For Homler, performance art had recently become \u201ca form big enough to contain everything happening\u201d during her studies with Rachel Rosenthal<\/strong> at Otis College of Art and Design. As this performative freedom fed into the enchanted vocalese, the character of Breadwoman emerged.<\/p>\n

Homler tread the same multi-disciplinary waters where Steve Moshier and the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra (CRMO), a communal avant-garde urban chamber music ensemble formed in LA in 1979, floated. When their currents connected, it was clear Homler and Moshier were kin, crossing genres through intensely physical de-significations of music: quasi-theatrical, fully mythic, ritualistic performances.<\/p>\n

Instead of confining Anna as \u201ca vocalist,\u201d Moshier recognized Anna\u2019s voice as a sonic element. To accomplish the recordings of this collection, Moshier chose the least song-like material from Homler\u2019s handheld cassette transcriptions and composed music considerately. Anna would then record chants and song variations which Steve would tweak for final touches through his arsenal of analog equipment.<\/p>\n

Although Breadwoman stands outside of time, she is is rich in the ingredients of 1980s Los Angeles performance art, renegade DIY punk, gallery culture, galvanized jazz, underground cassette-trading culture, drag extravaganzas, and esoteric meaning-making mysticism.<\/p>\n

Breadwoman is a storyteller \u2014 she\u2019s so very old she\u2019s turned into bread. Breadwoman says: If you don\u2019t try to understand, you will. She is the voice, and the voice is cosmic reality\u2019s musicality. Through “Breadwoman & Other Tales”, we hear material meet mythos.<\/p>\n

Anna Homler<\/strong> and Steve Moshier<\/strong>\u2019s “Breadwoman & Other Tales”<\/strong> is available now on LP, and CD . Extensive liner notes and artist interviews were overseen by Andrew Choate<\/strong>. The collection was assembled by RVNG<\/strong>, Anna Homler<\/strong>, and Steve Moshier<\/strong>, who both continue making music to this day.<\/p>\n

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“Breadwoman & Other Tales”<\/strong> are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler<\/b> divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Although Breadwoman stands outside of time, she is is rich in the ingredients of 1980s Los Angeles performance art, renegade DIY punk, gallery culture, galvanized jazz, underground cassette-trading culture, drag extravaganzas, and esoteric meaning-making mysticism.<\/p>\n

Breadwoman is a storyteller \u2014 she\u2019s so very old she\u2019s turned into bread. Breadwoman says: If you don\u2019t try to understand, you will. She is the voice, and the voice is cosmic reality\u2019s musicality. Through “Breadwoman & Other Tales”<\/strong>, we hear material meet mythos.<\/p>\n

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