David Garland

recordings

Worlds of Love

LP released 1989
CD released December, 2000, reissuing the LP and adding over twenty minutes of brand new recordings.
Review Records, catalog # rere 152cd
cover artwork by David Garland / see larger version

songs

The Whirls of Love
Flowers
Paper Cup
Inner Workings
Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
Slippers On
One of Two (mp3 available on the downloads page)
Lonely Boy
Lovelight
Transwarped Love
Holding Hands
You Belong to Me
Could It Be You?
Gesture
Somehow, I’m Sure
Carousel d’Amour
That Strange Taste of Love
In The Sky & Et Meme

musicians

The Worlds of Love, a group consisting of:
Cinnie Cole: vocals, banjo, synthesizer
David Garland: vocals, synthesizers, accordion, bass guitar, flutes, melodica, theremin, toy piano, percussion, vibrolute
Ikue Mori: vocals, hand-played drum machines, powerbook, percussion

Produced by David Garland.

Cinnie Cole became active in the New York new music community in 1979. She was a member of the groups The Sunset Chorus, You Rang, and Zozobra, and she played with Zeena Parkins, Sue Ann Harkey, Chris Cochrane, and others. In 1988, with Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, she recorded Locales for Ecstasy(Trans Museq), an album of improvisations.

Ikue Mori moved from Tokyo to New York in he mid Seventies, and quickly helped make rock history as the drummer for the “no wave” band DNA. She is a crucial participant in New York’s downtown improv scene, having recorded and performed with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Kim Gordon, DJ Spooky, Tenko, the group Death Ambient, and many others. She has pioneered the hands-on performance of drum machines, creating a sound that’s uniquely her own. Recent CDs on the Tzadik label include One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Garden,and B/Side.

label/distributor

You can order “The Worlds of Love” from Wayside Music, and Other Music.

No Man’s Land/Review Records
Gerhard Busse
Strassmannstr. 33
D-10249 Berlin
Germany
Fax 49-(0)30-427-9532

1989 liner notes

The Worlds of Love was formed as a collaborative project, dedicated to performing love songs and improvised pieces that bridge the gap between chaos and romance (is there a gap?). Together, The Worlds of Love creates a new kind of romantic music, one in which lovely melodies meet raucous noise, hand-played drum machines meet banjo and synthesizer, fragile sopranos meet blustery baritone, and boy meets girl.

Most of the songs on this album are Worlds of Love originals, but we were inspired by Jo Stafford to record “You Belong to Me,” and by Francoise Hardy to record two of her songs, “In The Sky” and “Et Meme,” as a medley.

Boy/Girl, Boy/Boy, Girl/Girl, Parent/Child, Person/Place, etc. There are many worlds of love, and these are but a few of them.

You can change the CD cover according to your mood! Booklet can be folded with the left panel as the cover for the “Intergalactic” version (top), or the right panel as cover for the “Erotic” version (below).

2000 liner notes

The Worlds of Love was dormant after Cinnie moved from New York to San Francisco, but this reissue inspired The Worlds to resume. Ikue and I got together, but Cinnie could join us only as a virtual banjo player. Her spirit and sound had to be part of the World(s).

In his 1981 novel The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick writes of a singer of the future who adapts the 16th Century lute songs of John Dowland, and sings them throughout the galaxy to the accompaniment of a “vibrolute.” The song “Slippers On” adapts phrases by Dick and Dowland (to vibrolute accompaniment), and is an homage to those compassionate visionaries.

In 1993 my CD I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times—David Garland performs Brian Wilson was released in Japan. That project grew out of The Worlds of Love, and Cinnie and Ikue contributed a lot to it. “Don’t Talk” was released on that CD with my vocal, but Ikue’s beautiful version is included here. —David Garland

lyrics

Paper Cup

Here’s my paper cup;
won’t you fill it up?
It should last just long enough for me to drink.

Soon my time is up;
soggy paper cup
falls apart so flimsily and spills my drink.

Pour it all in
My paper cup is waterlogged
but the liquid reached my lips.

Why should I give up,
when my paper cup
gives me drinks, and even sometimes gives me thirst.

Pour it all in.
For all intents and purposes
my old paper cup is all I need.

david garland