Beside Herself

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Album Info

Release Date: 2018-11-09

Labels: Rvng Intl., Freedom To Spend

Sources:
(01) A Little Piece (A Cast of Shadows CS, Self-Released 1984)
(02) Ghosts Before Breakfast (A Cast of Shadows CS, Self-Released 1984)
(03) Dreamplay 2 (Dreamplay CS, Self-Released 1990)
(04) Beside Myself (from the score for the play "Beside Herself, Pocahontas To Patty Hearst", produced by the Independent Eye Theatre Company, 1989)
(05) Liberation Day (Dreams Without Dreamers CS, Self-Released 1985)
(06) The Sky Is Falling (Rouge & Mint CS, Self-Released 1983)
(07) Beginning (Dreamplay CS, Self-Released 1990)
(08) No More Law In Gotham City (Dreams Without Dreamers CS, Self-Released 1985, originally commissioned for the performance artist Mary Gast, Chicago, IL)
(09) Time Piece (Dreams Without Dreamers CS, Self-Released 1985, originally commissioned for "The Secret City", a PBS television series)
(10) A Void Dance (Rouge & Mint CS, Self-Released 1983)
(11) Mother (Dreamplay CS, Self-Released 1990)
(12) Beside Herself (from the score for the play "Beside Herself, Pocahontas To Patty Hearst", produced by the Independent Eye Theatre Company, 1989)
(13) Dinosaur Dancing (A Cast of Shadows CS, Self-Released 1984)
(14) An Accident Waiting To Happen (alternate version from the score for the feature film Shades Of Black, 1993)
(15) Reverie (A Cast of Shadows CS, Self-Released 1984)
(16) De Dunk (Rouge & Mint CS, Self-Released 1983)
(17) Night Music (Dreamplay CS, Self-Released 1990, originally from the score for the play "Beside Herself, Pocahontas To Patty Hearst", produced by the Independent Eye Theatre Company, 1989)
(18) Antigone (from the score for the play "Antigone", produced by Theater of the Seventh Sister, Lancaster, PA, 1992)
(19) Antarctica (from the score for the play "Terra Nova", produced by Theater of the Seventh Sister, Lancaster, PA, 1992).

All music written by Michele Mercure (ASCAP).
All music recorded at home.
Tape transfers and mastering [...] at Neato Mastering (San Francisco, CA).

Liner notes: Emily Pothast Seattle, Washington July 2018
Image on page 2 from Harrisburg Patriot Evening News, "In Tune With The Times", author unidentified, Harrisburg, PA, Friday, September 7, 1984.
Page 8 by Mary Haverstick, 1991.
Back cover: Lancaster News, Lancaster, PA, ca. 1989.

© ℗ 2018 RVNG Intl. Licensed under permission by Michele Mercure.

Packaging features unique reverse flap exterior card sleeve, printed cardboard inner sleeve, and 16-page booklet.
Barcode printed on sticker affixed to the sleeve. Comes with hype sticker affixed to the shrink wrap stating "Beside Herself collects the dream music of Michele Mercure's self-produced and distributed albums, offered in scarce analog editions between 1983 and 1990. Traversing the DIY cassette trading scene and sensory bending soundtracks for experimental theatre and television, Mercure's night-lit, minimal synthesizer music expresses an ambitious vision and (simulated) voice swelling from the electronic music substratum of the 80s. This CD co-release from RVNG Intl. and Freedom To Spend includes a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and ephemeral enrichment."

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