Boyd Rice - Boyd Rice (The Black Album) [Full Album 1977]

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00:00 - A1 (later re-released as "Iron Destiny")
01:39 - A2 (later re-released as "Father's Day")
09:41 - A3 (Untitled)
11:01 - A4 (Untitled)
16:21 - A5 (Untitled)
19:36 - A6 (Untitled)
22:38 - B1 (Untitled)
27:40 - B2 (Untitled)
33:03 - B3 (Untitled)
You ever say a single word over and over again, until it loses its meaning?
The original album can be played at any speed. This upload is 33 rpm.
I couldn't find this on KZbin, so I uploaded it. I may upload more of Boyd / NON's music in the future, along with any other obscure stuff that isn't on this behemoth of a site yet.
===== Interview =====
Boyd Rice: Yeah I like that, I wish, I started doing that, I was going to do a book where I thought, I know so many interesting people, and I'd have so many interesting conversations, I'm just going to start recording whenever I go out to dinner with somebody or something, or whenever I'm on the phone talking to somebody, I'm going to record this stuff. And I did for about a year or something, and a lot of it, it's very funny, you know, if you're out at dinner and you're talking, and you turn on a tape recorder, you know, it gets silent very quickly.
Interviewer: Yeah, that's almost the jinx of it I would guess. But yeah I do like, especially with tape recorders, I use mini cassettes too, because I mean, the fidelity is definitely lower when you deal with mini cassettes, but especially with vocals, and the way that air interrelates with reverb, it really takes on another form, you know you listen to something and like “I wasn't really sad when I said that but it sounds like I'm sad”.
BR: (laughs) Yeah I love tape recorders, one of my pivotal things of my youth, one year for my birthday, my parents got me this little blue plastic reel-to-reel tape recorder from Japan, and I just recorded all sorts of stuff. And then it had multiple speeds so I could record stuff and listen to it slower and listen to it sped up and I thought “This is miraculous! You can just capture something in perpetuity that is happening in the moment!” and then when I started doing my ambient music, a friend of mine had a really good tape recorder, and he was going to jail, and he said “Boyd, you can use my tape recorder while I'm jail”, and that's when I did all the stuff that's on The Black Album.
I: That's how he said it? Out of the blue? You'd probably already expressed interest in getting a tape recorder, but that phrase “Boyd, you can use my tape recorder, I'm going to jail”
BR: Yeah, well, that was that, I'd been planning for a long time to record some music and I knew how I was going to do it, and his going to jail afforded me the opportunity to record all of that early stuff.
I: It's pretty marvelous stuff, I think my favorite is the part that I read about. Where, oh who's voice is it? At the very end of the record, it's a woman's voice over and over, she sang a word, and I don't remember what the word is...
BR: This is something the RE/search (magazine) people put in their thing, and that recording was never released, I don't even know what became of that recording, but Lesley Gore's first album was something with the word “Cry”. Because her big hit was “It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To”, that was a huge hit, they thought “Okay, we'll have her record every song ever written with the word “Cry” in the title. So it's like “Cry Me A River”, “Cry And You Cry Alone” so I went through this entire album and I just had the tape recorder on pause, and I just recorded every time she said “Cry”. It came out and it made these very weird rhythms, and stuff, but it's really never been released on anything. For some reason the RE/search people made a big deal about that, and it's still on, it's probably still on my Wikipedia page, I mean people are still talking about it. It's like one weird thing I did 33 years ago and it was never even released.
I: I listened really diligently to try to hear it, and at the very end of Side B, I think there's something that might've been, by a stretch, what would sound like that, I would think. But yeah, it's just an interesting artifact to listen to, even now it's, the sensibility of it is very alien.
BR: What, The Black Album?
I: Yeah.
BR: Yeah, I mean I can't believe nobody's made a bigger deal out of this, but I was essentially doing sample-based music years in advance of the invention of the Fairlight, or the early samplers. That's how I did everything on The Black Album.
(blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/0... | archive.ph/3oOKE)

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Nice, I always liked Father's Day (because it was on a Non compilation) but didn't know it originated from the first album. Thanks for uploading this obscure gem!