State of the Union [Atavistic] (1996)

About this title: Produced by composer-performer Elliott Sharp, this is an incredible two-CD collection of one-minute pieces by 146 artists (poets, musicians, writers, visual artists) with proceeds from the sale going to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship. This has been an on-going project since a similar release in 1982 on zOaR records. "Changing political, cultural and technical climate plus inspired response yields biting satire, bracing sound, sly observations." "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide

Tracks:

1. Hymn [Duncan]
2. Dear Friend [Worden]
3. Life Is Shorter [Ui]
4. Politica [Esther]
5. Ayurveda [Painkiller]
6. America, It Was a Beautiful Idea [Penny Arcade]
7. Indians Not Taxed and Others [Haskett]
8. Not Me [Elliott]
9. Covalence [Piccolo]
10. The Traveler [Piccolo]
11. Prolongate [Circuit Redux]
12. Through a Tube [Lanier]
13. Why I Don't Like Wyoming [Estep]
14. Kitsch [Rothkamm]
15. Hogwash [Happy Boy]
16. Subsector a [Coleman]
17. Rude Awakening, Pt. 2 [Moore]
18. Sin Capish [Ginsberg]
19. A Voice in the Forest [DeMarinis]
20. Outskirts of Beatrice [Kaye]
21. 9.1.95 [Yamada]
22. Vorticities [Miller]
23. Laying into the Piople [Helias]
24. Proscurstics [Ostrowski]
25. Van Tatum [De Gle Antoni]
26. Building a Compound [Pharmacy Lounge]
27. Prelude to a Kiss [Morris]
28. Dipthong [Parkins]
29. Ghazal by Mawlana Jalaloddin Rumi [Bey]
30. Blue Ox [Ghazala]
31. The Tormentrix [Cain]
32. Our Little Life Is Rounded With a Sleep [Allen/Mishan]
33. Woke up With Leather [Machine Gun]
34. Circulate All Sensation [Fisher]
35. The Writer [Hound]
36. Place Study #3 [Weinger]
37. Nontheory [DJ Olive]
38. Non-Verbal News [Weinstein]
39. Hey George [Barg]
40. Westworld [Borbetomagus/Voice]
41. Patchwork Quilt [Soldier String Quar]
42. Backlash [Miffin]
43. The Whole World Turned Upside Down [Sappol/Biederman]
44. Frankspeech/Tongue & Groove [Mori]
45. Patches '91 [Coleman]
46. God Is My Co-Pilot [Role Model]
47. Nikosi Sikelel 'I Afrika [Vierk/Cele]
48. Motherless Child [Ribot]
49. American Spit Poems [Stansbury]
50. Keystone Model [Montgomery]
51. Cowlick Pussyman [Zorn/Yamatsuke Eye]
52. Overture for the 90's [Fulton]
53. Tropical Boubou [Collins]
54. Murk [Sloan]
55. Good Morning Dear [Lurie]
56. One Minute [Orrego]
57. A Small Motion [Meckley]
58. Cornered Bo [Obrecht]
59. May [Pulsallama]
60. As Told to Andrew Zev Weinstein [Liegerman]
61. Misery Loop [Boom]
62. Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free [Squat Theatre]
63. Rough Translations Will Be Provided for the Ancient Inscriptions [Chubb]
64. What's to Come [Lindahl]
65. Due Pay To [Lindsay/Nougueira]
66. Standing in the Need of Prayer [Bingham/Leroy/Seton]
67. F Troop [Sonorexia]
68. My Town [Wright]
69. Address [Gray]
70. No Regrets [Le]
71. Love Letters to My Sister in Prison [Sheppard]
72. Guilty [Parkins]
73. Polynation [Babytooth]
74. Red Light [Torres]
75. Vom Gewissen [Maneuver]
76. Life Saver [Martin/Blume]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.