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Track List
01) The American Metaphysical Circus
02) Hard Coming Love
03) Cloud Song
04) The Garden of Earthly Delights
05) I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar
06) Where Is Yesterday
07) Coming Down
08) Love Song for the Dead Che
09) Stranded in Time
10) The American Way of Love
01) The American Metaphysical Circus
02) Hard Coming Love
03) Cloud Song
04) The Garden of Earthly Delights
05) I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar
06) Where Is Yesterday
07) Coming Down
08) Love Song for the Dead Che
09) Stranded in Time
10) The American Way of Love
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1968
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he United States of America is the only studio album by American rock band the United States of America. Produced by David Rubinson, it was released in 1968 by Columbia Records. The album combined rock and electronic instrumentation, experimental composition, and an approach reflecting an anti-establishment, leftist political stance.
The United States of America received positive reviews on its release and charted at number 181 on the Billboard 200. The album has been reissued several times and continues to receive critical acclaim decades after its original release.
Joseph Byrd and Dorothy Moskowitz first met in New York City in 1963. Byrd at the time worked as an assistant to composer Virgil Thomson, and later as an arranger and producer. Moskowitz was a music student at Barnard College, where she was mentored by composer Otto Luening. The two began a "profound musical and personal relationship", and moved to Los Angeles later that year after Byrd received a teaching assistantship at UCLA. While at UCLA, Byrd formed the New Music Workshop, an avant-garde art collective, alongside Moskowitz, jazz musician Don Ellis and others. Byrd left his job at UCLA in 1966 to focus on producing art, music and organizing happenings full-time. Around the same time, Byrd and Moskowitz also contributed to Vocal And Instrumental Ragas From South India, an album of Indian classical music released on Folkways Records, alongside Gayathri Rajapur and Harihar Rao. In early 1967, Byrd approached Art Kunkin, founder and editor of the Los Angeles Free Press, requesting money with which to form a band, in collaboration with anarchist composer Michael Agnello as organist. By this time, Byrd and Moskowitz had broken up, with Moskowitz returning to New York, but she accepted an offer from Byrd to return to Los Angeles and serve as the lead singer for the band. The other members of the band had also all been involved with avant-garde music and ethnomusicology. The name "United States of America" was intended to be provocative, by appropriating the full official name of the United States as a way to express contempt for the government, and was later described by Moskowitz as "like hanging the flag upside down".
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he United States of America is the only studio album by American rock band the United States of America. Produced by David Rubinson, it was released in 1968 by Columbia Records. The album combined rock and electronic instrumentation, experimental composition, and an approach reflecting an anti-establishment, leftist political stance.
The United States of America received positive reviews on its release and charted at number 181 on the Billboard 200. The album has been reissued several times and continues to receive critical acclaim decades after its original release.
Joseph Byrd and Dorothy Moskowitz first met in New York City in 1963. Byrd at the time worked as an assistant to composer Virgil Thomson, and later as an arranger and producer. Moskowitz was a music student at Barnard College, where she was mentored by composer Otto Luening. The two began a "profound musical and personal relationship", and moved to Los Angeles later that year after Byrd received a teaching assistantship at UCLA. While at UCLA, Byrd formed the New Music Workshop, an avant-garde art collective, alongside Moskowitz, jazz musician Don Ellis and others. Byrd left his job at UCLA in 1966 to focus on producing art, music and organizing happenings full-time. Around the same time, Byrd and Moskowitz also contributed to Vocal And Instrumental Ragas From South India, an album of Indian classical music released on Folkways Records, alongside Gayathri Rajapur and Harihar Rao. In early 1967, Byrd approached Art Kunkin, founder and editor of the Los Angeles Free Press, requesting money with which to form a band, in collaboration with anarchist composer Michael Agnello as organist. By this time, Byrd and Moskowitz had broken up, with Moskowitz returning to New York, but she accepted an offer from Byrd to return to Los Angeles and serve as the lead singer for the band. The other members of the band had also all been involved with avant-garde music and ethnomusicology. The name "United States of America" was intended to be provocative, by appropriating the full official name of the United States as a way to express contempt for the government, and was later described by Moskowitz as "like hanging the flag upside down".
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