Arto Lindsay - Prize [1999]

Banking again off the Lounge Lizards lineup, I have another turn of the century release, Prize from Arto Lindsay, a gentleman sorely represented here in the forest. Prize hit all the right buttons for me in 1999. It's a perfect amalgam of digital and analog, which seemed a lot more difficult in the late 90s and early 00s than it does now. The players convened were of course massively chopped, so that certainly helped gam the amal, but Lindsay really pulled some inspired side work from these folks. Eyvind Kang lends his oddly phrased violin and viola on a number of tracks, and Eno injects undercurrent additions to Resemblances, this tune closing with some noise similar to DNA stylings, a seeming nod to Lindsay's former no wave project. Arto spent his formative years in Brazil when Tropicália was ripe. The lilting beats and bossas from that rhythmic country are never far from the surface, with some of the album even sung in Portuguese.

Grab the Prize.

Arto gets the respect of none other than Matthew Barney supplying not only images of his sculptures from the Cremaster Cycle, but also providing design for the album packaging.