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ART FICTION live 1/31/95
BRIAN IMIG
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It was a dark and frigid night. There was no moon.
Strange & beautiful sounds rose from the bowels of Clark Street. Steamed windows without, a warm and cozy meeting place within. Several species of assorted art gypsies, musos, and unsuspecting diners gathered in a cafe and grooved to the sound. This was only one of hundreds of events happening on a cold Winter night in Chicago.
Many were waiting upstairs during the { sold out } first half hoping they might find a seat for the second half. Curiosity and the ever elusive "buzz" were quickly forming around this collective calling itself
Art Fiction.
Consisting of former members of Dot Dot Dot, ONO, De Paul University alum, storytellers, folkies, magicians, classical musicians, punkers, proggers, & poets - questions about Art Fiction were on many people's minds that night. And if this unique blend was not already enticing enough:
tonight they were being joined by none other than the
drum drake and wizard of wonder himself, the esteemed Hamid Drake...
Those who witnessed Art Fiction knew there were easily 2 or 3 bands within the band. Throughout the night the stage was occupied by subset duos, trios & quartets. The { nearly } entire ensemble assembled toward the beginning and the end. In order to experience the full enchilada you had to see the whole show from beginning to end.
Well my fellow listener, the questions of what Art Fiction was and would never be are answered - if at all, in the tapes that remain.
Step with me now across the millennium into another time. Down the wooden stairs to the cellar of the long vanished Cafe Voltaire on a cold January night. As you descend, you feel the contrasting sense of ascending.
Your eyes adjust as you behold a cavern, lit by a single candle ...
Mark: storyteller
travis: recital, pedal steel guitar
Jeffrey: bass guitar, cello, recital, keyboards
Rebecca: vocals, keyboards, dumbek, hammered dulcimer
Hamid: djembe, tar, tabla & traps
Andrae: violin
1) story 1:21
2) The Golden Grotto 10:06
3) Ruins I 5:41
4) Ruins II 3:06
5) Ruins III / WindRiders 8:55
6) drums 1:09
7) Fanfare / The Gate 9:00
8) SleepWakers / cello 5:51
9) cello 1:59
10) Don't Forget What You Came Here For /
Cry Forever ... 5:08
11) ... Cry Forever 4:20
12) Picture Of The Future 5:55
13) Lifting The Mists 8:07
14) No Change Takes Time / The Big Bang pt. IV 14:30
download link @ archive.org
2) The Golden Grotto 10:06
3) Ruins I 5:41
4) Ruins II 3:06
5) Ruins III / WindRiders 8:55
6) drums 1:09
7) Fanfare / The Gate 9:00
8) SleepWakers / cello 5:51
9) cello 1:59
10) Don't Forget What You Came Here For /
Cry Forever ... 5:08
11) ... Cry Forever 4:20
12) Picture Of The Future 5:55
13) Lifting The Mists 8:07
14) No Change Takes Time / The Big Bang pt. IV 14:30
download link @ archive.org
listen here:
1) story
2) The Golden Grotto
3) Ruins I
4) Ruins II
5) Ruins III / WindRiders
6) drums
7) Fanfare / The Gate
8) SleepWakers / cello
9) cello
10) Don't Forget What You Came Here For / Cry Forever ...
11) ... Cry Forever
12) Picture Of The Future
13) Lifting The Mists
14) No Change Takes Time / The Big Bang pt. IV
after the show, A. J. Vallee shook hands with Hamid,
as the role of drummer in Art Fiction literally changed hands.