God in Three Persons [3CD Preserved Edition]

by The Residents

Overview

Employing the same stress-scheme as Poe's "The Raven" throughout its 62 minutes, "God In Three Persons" is an extended work in "talking-blues" style for narrator, electronic instruments, and a chorus providing comments not to be found in the libretto -- they sing production credits at the beginning, and lines like "something's coming, but not real soon," and "this is a sad part, oh, such a sad part". This surreal and yet directly delivered work is as lovingly human as it is comic with profound experience simply expressed...in short, an original masterpiece of American music, directly in the tradition of the Thomson-Stein and Robert Ashley operas. As in all Residents pieces, the voices are modified electronically and the musical elements are deceptively minimal--most of its 14 episodes have only two chords which, however, still manage to instantly produce the correct atmosphere (Phil Glass-like Wagnerian thirds for mythic import, tonic-dominant in triplets for 50's teenage love story, etc.). There are only passing riffs, more like comments, and the only melody in the whole piece is a wheezy organ quote of the standard doxology hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy (God in Three Persons)."The subject matter is, in part, the derivation of religious and other symbolic images from the naturally erotic... but that's only part of it. Please give this one a listen. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny

Product Details

Release Date:	08/09/2019
Label:	Cryptic Corporation / New Ralph
UPC:	5013929361331
Rank:	103749

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Main Titles (God in Three Persons)
2. Hard and Tenderly
3. Devotion?
4. The Thing About Them
5. Their Early Years
6. Loss of a Loved One
7. The Touch
8. The Service
9. Confused (By What I Felt Inside)
10. Fine Fat Flies
11. Time
12. Silver, Sharp and Could Not Care
13. Kiss of Flesh
14. Pain and Pleasure
15. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
16. G3P Over

Disc 2

17. Main Titles (God In Three Persons)
18. Hard and Tenderly
19. The Thing About Them [Instrumental]
20. Their Early Years
21. Loss of a Loved One
22. The Touch [Instrumental]
23. The Service, Pt. 1 [Instrumental]
24. The Service, Pt. 2 [Instrumental]
25. Confused (By What I Felt Inside)
26. Kiss of Flesh
27. Pain and Pleasure
28. Knot In a Million Years

Disc 3

29. Main Titles [Demo]
30. Devotion? (Demo)
31. The Thing About Them [Demo]
32. Loss of a Loved One [Demo]
33. The Touch [Demo]
34. The Service [Demo]
35. Confused (by What I Felt Inside) [Demo]
36. Loss of a Loved One [Extended]
37. Holy Kiss of Flesh [Single Mix]
38. Land of 1000 Dances/Double Shot
39. Their Early Years [Live]
40. Hard and Tenderly [Live]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Residents   Primary Artist
Richard Marriott   Brass,Woodwind
Richard Mariott   Wind,Brass,Woodwind

Technical Credits

Cyril Vetter   Composer
Chris Kenner   Composer
Laurie Amat   Song Stylist
Steven Jurgensmeyer   Layout Design
Homer Flynn   Composer
Henrik Kam   Photography
Hardy Fox   Composer
The Residents   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Toby Mountain   Digital Mastering,Engineer
Don Smith   Composer