CDs
"Coming Clean" - The latest blast from Gary's longtime psychedelic supergroup/jam band Gods and Monsters comes in 5 different deluxe international editions...Gary and his boys rip through melodic and rootsy art-pop originals with a twist, kiss-the-sky instrumental workouts, and inspired covers (including covers of Gary's famous songs written with former Gods and Monsters bandmate Jeff Buckley, "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" — plus a version of Springsteen's "Ain't Got You" which prompted the Boss himself to call Gary "a phenomenal guitarist")...lineup includes Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Billy Ficca (Television) and Jonathan Kane (Swans), with special guests David Johansen (New York Dolls), Richard Barone (Bongos) and sultry French icon Elli Medeiros...Mixed by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) and Harold Burgon...4 Stars in Rolling Stone & DownBeat (US), MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector (UK), Rock and Folk, Crossroads, & Vibrations (France), & Oor (Holland)
"Beyond the Pale" CD
Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets
His work with Jeff Buckley and Captain Beefheart probably makes Gary Lucas the world's most popular avant-rock guitarist. Here, his solo pieces mingle with tracks recorded with electronic composer James Hunter, aka The Dark Poets, whose samplescapes, synth beds and vocal samples about things like military mind-control techniques recall the dark portents of Cabaret Voltaire. Highlights include a resonant cover of part of Popol Vuh's "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" soundtrack; an exhilarating "Judgement at Midnight" incorporating swirling National steel guitar phrases over a synth drone bed pockmarked with found-sound fragments; "Breath of Bones", a delicate tangle of guitar tendrils; and "Ted's Theme", a lovely sequenced samba-shuffle burnished with glinting guitar. Solo showcases include the glistening Frippertronic-style guitar tones of "Rosemary's Baby", and the almost electric-flamenco flurries of "Rise Up To Be".
—Andy Gill for The Independent (UK)
Read a rave (8 out of 10) review of the album from Gothtronic.com here
Track list: The Judgement At Midnight | Prime Time | Breath of Bones | The Diabolical Principle | Rosemary's Baby | Procuress From Karmelitska Street | And You Will | Real Horrorshow | Hugh's Graveyard Stomp Revisited | Rise Up To Be | Ted's Theme | Aguirre (Lacrime di Re)/The Sheep Look Up | Charm Offensive | The Judgement At Midnight (Grid Remix)
Released: 2008
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Coming Clean" CD (UK version on Side Salad)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters
Track list: One Man’s Meat | Psycho | Coming Clean | Under My Wing | Fata Morgana | Evangeline | Follow | Skin Diving | Spirit Moves | Hurly Burly | Land’s End | Mojo Pin
Bonus Tracks:
Autobahn | Ain’t Got You | Woke Up This Morning - with Alabama 3 (the theme from "The Sopranos", recorded live in London, track not available on any other album)
Released: 2006
Album licensed for release in the UK only
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Coming Clean" CD (US version on Mighty Quinn)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters
Track list: Fata Morgana | Follow | Coming Clean | Skin Diving | Evangeline | Ain’t Got You | Hurly Burly | Land’s End | Spirit Moves | Under My Wing | Psycho | One Man’s Meat | Mojo Pin | Dream Of The Wild Horses
Released: 2006
Album licensed for release in the US, Canada and Japan only
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Coming Clean" CD (Benelux version on Dawa Records, deluxe digipack)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters
Track list: Hurly Burly | Coming Clean | Ultra Shark (new mix not available anywhere else) | Evangeline | Fata Morgana | Dream Of The Wild Horses | Psycho | Skin Diving | Ain’t Got You | One Man’s Meat | Spirit Moves | Under My Wing | Follow
Bonus Tracks:
Rosemary's Baby | Grace (new version not available anywhere else)
Released: 2007
Album licensed for release in the Benelux only
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Coming Clean" CD (French version on Productions Speciales, contains deluxe booklet with full lyrics)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters
Track list: One Man's Meat | Coming Clean | Under My Wing | Fata Morgana | Spirit Moves | Skin Diving | Evangeline | Follow | Hurly Burly | Land's End | Mojo Pin | Psycho
Bonus Tracks:
Ain’t Got You | Dream Of The Wild Horses | Astronomy Domine | Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby (special mix on French version only)
Released: 2006
Album licensed for release in France only
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personally autographed by Gary
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"...Follow" CD (Russian Version on Exotica Music)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters
Track list: Evangeline (alternate mix not available anywhere else) | Skin Diving (alternate mix not available anywhere else) | Coming Clean | Hurly Burly | One Man’s Meat | Psycho | Dream Of The Wild Horses | Follow | Land’s End | Ultra-Shark (original mix not available anywhere else) | Spirit Moves | Under My Wing
Bonus Tracks:
Autobahn | Astronomy Domine
Released: 2005
Album licensed for release in the Russian Federation only
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind" CD
Fast 'N' Bulbous
Walloping instrumental versions of Captain Beefheart faves as played by a crack, deranged 7 piece little/big band comprised of bellerin' plain horny horns and maniac bass and drums (some of NYC's finest improvisers) — plus of course, the X-Factor — former Beefheart/Magic Band alumnus Lucas improvising his ass off on new electric slide and blistering lead — together the guys take these Don Van Vliet compositions into the hip-osphere, the flip-osphere, the gone-osphere, and the way, way gone-osphere — the whole shebang ('cept for the guitar parts, 2-in- 1 without no oil, courtesy Gary) arranged and conducted by noted avant-saxophonist/composer Phillip Johnston (Microscopic Septet)...mucho rave reviews in DownBeat, Rolling Stone, NPR, and the Village Voice!
Track list: Suction Prints | Abba Zaba | When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy | Evening Bell | Pachuco Cadaver | When It Blows Its Stacks | Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond | Sugar 'N Spikes | When Big Joan Sets Up | Dali's Car | Veteran's Day Poppy | Kandy Korn | Tropical Hot Dog Night
Released: 2005
personally autographed by Gary
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"The Universe of Absence" CD
Gary Lucas & Jozef Van Wissem
The second album to feature the mysterious medieval lute stylings of Dutch master Jozef Van Wissem in concert with Gary Lucas' dark burnished National steel guitar and hypnotic electronic soundscapes...a voyage into uncharted sonic realms, a dizzying vertiginous head-trip and a sensuous float downstream, sure to soothe and succor both mind and body, including a haunting cover of Nico's "These Days" and The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" — the soundtrack to your favorite foreign movie, "strings in the earth and air"...as above so below...
Track list: A Hawk From a Handsaw | These Days (Jackson Browne) | New Worlds for Old | The Sickness unto Death | Screw Your Courage to the Sticking Place | The Universe of Absence | Too Tender for this World | Tomorrow Never Knows (Lennon/McCartney)
Read the 4-star review in Het Parool here!
Released: 2004
personally autographed by Gary
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Free Flying CD
Free Flying is a psychedelic improvisational voyage to the outer limits of inner space featuring Gary Lucas with the cream of the Czech avant-rock underground, including saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec (Plastic People of the Universe), Mirka Krivankova (premier Czech avant-vocalist), and bassist/producer Richard Mader (UrFaust). Recorded live at Faust Records Studio in Prague the day after Walpurgisnacht, May Day 2002.
Released: 2004
personally autographed by Gary
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"Operators Are Standing By" CD
Track list: They Can't Believe He's Risen Again | Glo-Worm | It's Happening Again | The Nightmare of History | Astronomy Domine | I Want to Play Your Guitar | Handful of Gimme | Children's March | Theme from "Eastenders" | Poison I.V. League | Fool's Cap | Volga Boatman into The Stumble | Don't Let the Bastards Wear You Down | Cantina | King Strong
Released: 2003
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Songs to No One 1991-1992" CD
Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas
Early work circa 1991-92 from Gary and his former Gods and Monsters bandmate — vocalist extraordinaire and ace collaborator the incredible Jeff Buckley — includes the original studio demo version of "Grace", an amazing live duo rendition of "Mojo Pin", and many hitherto unreleased Lucas/Buckley gems and astonishing covers (including Pat Kelly's reggae classic "How Long Will It Take") — an up close and personal intimate audio glimpse documenting two master musicians totally on fire, inspired by and inspiring each other in the service of Art, creative Joy, and the holy Muse...
Track list: Hymne à l'Amour | How Long Will It Take | Mojo Pin | Song To No One | Grace | Satisfied Mind | Cruel | She Is Free | Harem Man | Malign Fiesta (No Soul) | Grace
Released: 2002
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Diplopia" CD
Gary Lucas & Jozef Van Wissem
The first album from Dutch lutist Van Wissem combines the courtly filigree of Jozef's medieval lute with Gary's bottleneck country blues steel guitar to produce one of the freshest and most original instrumental albums ever...the combination of graceful Renaissance music and the earthy starkness of Gary's slashing blues attack and delicate plucked filigree is inspired — the title says it all ("Double Vision")...a manifesto for a new landscape of sound...Vermeer meets Son House on the Far Side of Paradise...
Track list: If it doesn’t fit, thou must acquit | For whom the bell tolls | Will o’ the Wisp | Diplopia | The Mirror Stage | Brethren of the Free Spirit | If it doesn’t fit, thou must acquit (live) | The Mirror Stage (live)
Released: 2003
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"The Edge of Heaven" CD
A sumptuous, romantic, and seductive world music classic, featuring Gary's lush and soulful arrangements of pop hits from 1930's Shanghai as originally recorded by Chow Hsuan and Bai Kwong, 2 famous Chinese divas — melodic Chinese pop songs that combine swing, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley elements with Chinese influences, further filtered through Gary's roots Americana sensibility — with guest vocalists Celest Chong and Gisburg — #1 on the World Charts in Canada, this album made many Best of the Year lists in 2001 and received accolades all over the world (including China) — with rave reviews in Rolling Stone and on PBS and NPR...by far Gary's most popular album to date! A lavishly designed package and booklet, with one of the most beautiful (hidden) covers you've ever seen (check the lower image to the left) that complements the gorgeous music inside.
Track list: Old Dreams | Please Allow Me to Look at You Again | The Mad World | The Wall | If I'm Without You | Night in Shanghai | Where is My Home | Songstress on the Edge of Heaven | I Wait for Your Return | Pretense | The Moon in the Street | The Wall (instrumental version) | Please Allow Me to Look at You Again (instrumental version)
Released: 2002
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personally autographed by Gary
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"No Knowledge of Music Required" CD
The Du-Tels
Gary Lucas on acoustic and vocals joins forces with psych-folk legend Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) on violin, mandolin, banjo and vocals for a rollicking acoustic romp through children's songs, old-timey classics, American folk, bluegrass, and roots music, cartoon and film themes ("Astro Boy", "Everyone Says I Love You"), 50's greaser rock, a tribute to the Tele-Tubbies, and much much more in this delightful artifact of "ye old weird America" — essential fun!
Track list: Rotten Family | Captain Kidd | Astro Boy | Voodoo Queen Marie | Everyone Says I Love You | Man in the Moon | Shortening' Bread | Zoe's Song | Crawlspace | Blackberry Blossom | New Runnin' Wild | Rollin' Sea | How Mountain Girls Can Love | Sandman | Bamboo | Ring of Fire | Teletubbies Say "Eh-Oh!"
Released: 2001
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Street of Lost Brothers" CD
Part of John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture series, featuring Gary Lucas solo, with Gods and Monsters, with his "Golem" collaborator the amazing keyboardist/composer Walter Horn, Tzadik label chief John Zorn on screaming alto sax, and vocalists Kenny and Larry along for the ride — dark, funny, scary, arcane, bluesy, and soulful explorations of Gary's existential Jewish roots and bittersweet ironic sensibility that also rocks like a motherfucker — including a live psychedelic solo tour de force cover of The Velvet Underground's "European Son", which Lou Reed himself praised recently to Gary as "Beyond Cool!"
Track list: Yidgal | The Opener of the Way | That’s My Life | Mahzel Means Good Luck | It's Like A Wheel | European Son | I Kill You for Nothing (Marx Brothers Medley) | Ride of the Valkyries | Let My People Go | Level The Playing Field | Sh’ma | The Tel Aviv Ghetto Fighters Song
Released: 2000
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Level the Playing Field — Early HurlyBurly 1988-1994" CD
A French (letter) import, the first major retrospective of Gary's earliest Gods and Monsters avant-rock psychedelia, combining stellar tracks from his renowned early 90's Enemy albums "Gods and Monsters" and "Bad Boys of the Arctic" with two rarities: the solo guitar compositions "Rise Up to Be" and "And You Will", which were the instrumental templates for Gary's famous songs co-written with his former bandmate Jeff Buckley, "Grace" and "Mojo Pin". Extensive liner notes (in French, oh well) and rare photos included.
Track list: Vampire Circus | Skin the Rabbit | Dream of a Russian Princess | Let's Go Swimming | Poison Tree | Out from Under | Jack Johnson/Ghostrider | Exit, Pursued by a Bear | The Brain From Planet Eros | Jericho | The Crazy Ray | Whip Named Lash | After Strange Gods
Bonus Tracks:
And You Will | Rise Up to Be
Released: 2000
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Improve the Shining Hour – rare lumière 1980-2000" CD
A collection of unreleased rare and marvelous tracks that span 20 years of Gary's recorded career, from his first emergence on the scene in 1980 as a featured guitar soloist with avant-rock visionary Captain Beefheart, to his rising up to become a music legend in his own right as guitarist extraordinaire, Grammy-nominated songwriter, and composer for film and television...includes live tracks, intense collaborations with Nick Cave, DJ Spooky, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Elli Medeiros, Eric Mingus, David Johansen, Captain Beefheart, Peter Stampfel, excerpts from Gary's television and film scores, Gods and Monsters rarities, and a whole lot more...liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke, a lavishly illustrated booklet with rare photos and color artwork.
Track list: Coming Clean | And the Ass Saw the Angel | Spider Web | Dulce | Flavour Bud Living | Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles | In a Forest | Judgement at Midnight | Judgement | Oat Hate | Follow | Astro Boy | Indian War Whoop | She Was Showing Me | Ted's Theme | Golgotha | Breath of Bones | Listen, You Who Dare/Improve the Shining Hour
Released: 2000
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personally autographed by Gary
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"@Paradiso" CD
Just like the title says, recorded live at Gary's favorite venue in Holland (if not the world) — Amsterdam's famed Paradiso. This old Dutch church has been going strong since the 60's as a temple of sonic wonderment and has been host to rock royalty like The Rolling Stones and The Velvet Underground for decades... Gary first played there with Captain Beefheart in 1980 and to date has played there subsequently 20 separate times!...which has to be some kind of record...both solo, as on this EP, and also with Gods and Monsters, Jozef Van Wissem, etc. You can tell Gary loves playing for his beloved Dutch audience (Holland was the first European country that took to Gary's music in a big way) — as you can hear from the recorded evidence herein, they love him back just as much! Includes Gary's amazing solo rendition of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn", a live "Rise Up to Be", and more...
Track list: Rise Up to Be | Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro | Autobahn | The Songstress on the Edge of Heaven
Released: 1999
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Busy Being Born" CD
An album for children of all ages, based on Jewish themes...a cornucopia of enchantment, an hour of music that entertains, provokes, and delights young and old as Gary provides a guided tour of his Jewish roots playing traditional Jewish melodies, bar-mitzvah and klez singalongs, a Max Fleischer medley, the occasional top 40, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley classic ("A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Sunrise Sunset") — and of course, filled with many Lucas originals/perennials ("Sandman", "Crawl Space") — includes Gary's finger-busting acoustic instrumental tour de force "Shekinah"..."An essential touchstone of the Radical Jewish Culture movement" —Seth Rogovoy, "The Essential Klezmer"...received the lead Pop Album review (with a star!) upon release in Billboard Magazine — featuring Gods and Monsters, and special guests Kenny and Larry.
Track list: Adon Olom instrumental | Adon Olom vocal | Shekhinah | Sandman | Sunrise Sunset | Tradition | The Mensch in the Moon | Lydia, the Tattooed Lady | Crawlspace | Dayenu/Dreidel | Fleischerei | A Hundred Pounds of Clay | The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao | Abie the Fishman | Hinay Ma Tov | Theme from Exodus | Adon Olom acapella
Released: 1998
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Evangeline" CD
An all acoustic tour de force from the master fingerpicker, who knows how to turn his 1946 Gibson J-45 into a 6-string orchestra — typically eclectic repertoire that ranges from Gary's own offbeat folky originals to covers of 30's Chinese pop and Gary's arrangements of Wagner ("Overture to Tannhasuer"), Sun Ra ("Interstellar Low-Ways"), and Lalo Schifrin ("Cool Hand Luke") — this album was hailed upon release in Billboard Magazine as Gary's breakthrough to a wider audience beyond the cult of experimental music lovers, and it showcases his rootsy blues and down-home bluegrass feel to a tee on tracks like "The Animal Flesh Comes Creeping Back" and "Judgement at Midnight" — melodic, incendiary and above all — highly user-friendly!
Track list: The Animal Flesh Comes Creeping Back | Evangeline | Wedding March | The Wall | Apismatisin' | Overture to "Tannhauser" | Sail Up | Ah Feel Like Ah Syd | The Songstress on the Edge of Heaven | A Wandering Minstrel Eye | Police Dog Blues | The Animal Flesh {slight return} | "Judgment at Midnight" Suite | Interstellar Low Ways | Cool Hand Luke
Released: 1996/1997
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"Bad Boys of the Arctic" CD
Gary's acclaimed second Gods and Monsters album — a bracing dip into the rushing streams of psychedelic rock, Appalachian folk, and off-the-wall unclassifiable art-pop on tunes like "After Strange Gods", "Jericho", and "Exit, Pursued by a Bear" — includes a killer acoustic solo cover of Percy Grainger's lovely "Children's March", a live tear through Arthur Russell's classic dance club anthem "Let's Go Swimming", and then there's "Cantina", a furious no-holds barred free-jazz assault on the senses — featuring longtime Gods and Monsters stalwart Jonathan Kane on drums, Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) and Jean Chaine on bass, Sonya Cohen and Dina Emerson on vocals, and the immortal anti-glee club stylings of vocalists Kenny and Larry.
Track list: After Strange Gods | Poison I.V. League | Jericho | Children's March - Over the Hills and Far Away | Exit, Pursued by a Bear | I Want to Play Your Guitar | They Can't Believe He's Risen Again | Out From Under | Let's Go Swimming | The Nightmare of History | Vampire Circus | Cantina
Released: 1994
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Gods and Monsters" CD
This is the first Gods and Monsters album, and it's a classic all the way — from Anton Corbijn's famous cover photograph of Gary (an optical illusion? hint: turn the cover upside down!) to amazing songs and performances spanning the length and breadth of alternative rock, psych folk, and hell-bent-for-leather jazz-rock workouts (imagine a medley of Suicide and Miles Davis tunes) that earned this album 4 Stars in Rolling Stone and a pick as one of the Best Albums of 1992 in none other than the Wall Street Journal! Featuring Rolo McGinty (Woodentops), Jon Langford (Mekons), Mary Margaret O'Hara, bassists Jared Nickerson and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu), and drummers extraordinaire Keith LeBlanc (Tackhead) and Tony Thunder Smith (Lou Reed)...includes the best cover ever of Syd Barret-era Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine", and the ne plus ultra of Lucas' fiery guitar playing, the titanic instrumental maelstrom "King Strong".
Track list: Glo-Worm | Skin the Rabbit | Poison Tree | Jack Johnson/Ghostrider | Whip Named Lash | Fool's Cap | Astronomy Domine | The Brain From Planet Eros | Dream of a Russian Princess | The Crazy Ray | King Strong
Released: 1992
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personally autographed by Gary
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"Skeleton at the Feast" CD
Track list: Strong Seed | Guerillas in the Midst | Robert's Johnson | Hard Werken Fucked Over Man/The Reckoning | Hugh's Graveyard Stomp | Hitchcocked (including "Vertigo" and "Psycho") | Tompkins Square Dance | Christmas in Space Medley: Bells/Little Drummer Boyee/Are You Experienced? | Aguirre (Lacrime Di Re)/The Sheep Look Up | Scud Patrol/Flux et Veritas | Syd's Dream | Music for "The Golem": Main Title – Rabbi Loew Consults the Stars/The Decree | The Junker and the Jewess | Creation of the Clay Man/Astaroth | The Golem walks with Famulus, Der Bose Juden-Jungling | The Festival of the Roses | In the Synagogue/The Vision of the Patriarchs | Go Go Golem
Released: 1991
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personally autographed by Gary
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"The Ghosts of Prague" CD
Urfaust and Gary Lucas
A much sought after collector's item, released only in the Czech Republic in the mid-90's — but we have a few copies left! Based on actual Czech ghost stories, a hallucinatory and haunting concept album that marries Gary's Bohemian ghostly guitar style with Czech underground prog rock legends Urfaust — with inspired results! Produced by the legendary Richard "Faust" Mader, and featuring famous Czech avant-vocalist Mirka Krivankova ("Fire on Petrin"), worldclass jazz bassist Pavel Ryba, and the glorious pipes of Pat Fulgoni (leader of UK psych rock legends Kava Kava — listen to him wail on "Procuress from Karmelitska Street"). This group caused a scandal performing live on early morning national Czech TV — and you can hear why upon listening to this dark, hallucinatory eldritch treasure...
Track list: Intro | Whore And Monk From Celetna Street | Fiery Man Drunkard | Dancer From Ozerov | Spellbound Monks From Emauzy | Procuress From Karmelitska Street | Doubles From Nove Mesto | Waterman's Bride From Zlata Street | Fire On Petrin
Released: 1996
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DVDs
Gary Lucas - Sounds of the Surreal/Monsters from the ID DVD-R
Sounds of the Surreal:
"Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" Gary Lucas accompanies 3 masterpieces of the early fantastic silent cinema with his original solo guitar scores, in a program commissioned by the film Society of Lincoln Center which he debuted at the Walter Reade Theater on Dec. 28th 2000. Since then he's gone on to sell out venues around the world with this heady brew of ghostly music and haunting images from a forgotten world...
Monsters from the ID:
"Monsters from the Id" finds Gary Lucas playing totally improvised solo guitar soundtracks to accompany and enhance clips from some of Gary's favorite horror and sci-fi sound films — color and black and white fever dreams and obsessions, including Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby", Mario Bava's "Black Sunday", "Mothra", "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", "Village of the Giants", "Carnival of Souls", "The Brain that Wouldn't Die", the original "King Kong", and more...
The Films:
Entr'acte
Rene Clair, France, 1924
"Entr'acte" is, on one level, just what its title says: a short work intended to be shown between live performances. The original occasion was an evening of dadaism run amok, and "Entr'acte" held its own. The central event of the narrative is a funeral, but most of the participants, including the corpse, are dancers. The hearse is drawn by a camel. What a way to go!
Ballet Mecanique
Fernand Leger, France, 1924
The famous experimental short in which everyday images form abstract patterns. The only film by the legendary Cubist painter, it is a key to all subsequent surrealist experiments in cinema.
The Cameraman's Revenge
Ladislaw Starewicz, Russia, 1912
An outlandishly humorous morality play involving 4 insects, two clandestine trysts, and one hell-bent-for-revenge photographer. Starewicz was one of the earliest and most unique pioneers of stop-motion animation. Bizarre and beautiful!
The source prints are superb, and the live soundtrack was recorded in excellent full stereo sound. Includes a spoken commentary by Gary Lucas about the films and project — and includes a surprise extra (or two)!
Gary Lucas' original solo guitar scores recorded live at the Porgy and Bess Club, Vienna, 9/16/07
Rare Lumiere DVD Series 01
Read a rave review of Gary's recent performance of "Sounds of the Surreal/Monsters From the Id" at Pop Montreal from the Montreal Gazette here
Read a review of the DVD from Downtown Music Gallery here
personally autographed by Gary
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Russian Fireworks - Gary Lucas Live in Saint Petersburg DVD-R
Recorded Live at the Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival, Baltiskey Dom, St. Petersburg Russia 4/25/04
Solo Guitar Pyrotechnics from Gary on Fender Strat, Gibson J-45, National Steel, and Vocals
Including "Rise Up to Be" (Gary's musical template for Gary Lucas and Jeff Buckley's anthem "Grace"), "Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro" (psych-surf cover of Abdullah Ibrahim's classic groove), Gary's arrangement of Dvorak's "String Quartet in F Major" for National Steel guitar, and "It's Like a Wheel" (John Peel's favorite Lucas track)
"A verite recording of a really wonderful night...I am very happy to be able to share this with you."
—from Gary's liner notes
personally autographed by Gary
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Gary Lucas - "The Golem" DVD-R
This DVD includes the complete 1920 film accompanied by Gary Lucas' original solo guitar score on the soundtrack—now upgraded visually using the best source print currently available ("restored" and colour tinted).
Since debuting this score live in 1989 with co-composer/keyboardist Walter Horn at the BAM Next Wave Festival, Gary has gone on to accompany the film with a solo guitar version in over 15 countries around the world, including performances at London's Royal Festival Hall, New York's Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale — and in Prague, home of The Golem.
Based on the story of the actual historical Rabbi Jehudah Loew, the 16th century rabbi who legend has it fashioned a man out of clay to save the Jewish community of Prague from annihilation, "The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) is a superb example of the early horror cinema at its finest, and went on to profoundly influence such films as James Whale's "Frankenstein" (1931).
Click here to read press raves for Gary's "The Golem" performances, and here for more information and to hear audio samples from "The Golem," one of Gary's best known projects.
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Gary Lucas / Gods and Monsters
Live at the Knitting Factory DVD-R
One-hour TV special filmed in June 2002 at NYC's famed downtown club The Knitting Factory, where Gary made his solo debut in 1988 and launched his worldwide music career. This performance features Gary both solo and with his longtime band Gods and Monsters, comprising Jonathan Kane (Swans) and Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) on drums and bass respectively; and with special guests Gisburg (vocals), Jason Candler (sax) and Joey Hendel (trombone). The show was filmed for broadcast on the BET Jazz Channel, and features new and previously unreleased material as well as some of Gary's best known work, spanning the full length and breadth of his oeuvre — everything from 30's Chinese pop to blistering psychedelic guitar raveups. Interview segments with Gary and his band are also included.
personally autographed by Gary
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videos
"Guitar Unbound – and at the end of the day it's all rock and roll"
1-hour documentary about Gary Lucas made by NGN produkties and shown on Dutch television in 1995. It includes live performances, interviews, videos, home movies (courtesy of Gary's parents!) and more.
$15.00
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