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Arc is an album by Canadian musician Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded early 1991 and released in October 1991.

Arc
Live album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Released	October 1991
Recorded	February – April 1991
Venue	North American tour
Genre	Noise rock, musique concrete, sound collage[1][2][3]
Length	35:00
Label	Reprise/Warner Bros.
Producer	Neil Young
Neil Young chronology
Weld (1991) Arc (1991) Harvest Moon (1992)
Crazy Horse chronology
Weld (1991) Arc (1991) Sleeps with Angels (1994)

Professional ratings

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AllMusic	[4]

The album consists of feedback, guitar noise, improvisations and vocal fragments which were recorded during various live shows on the 1991 US tour, and then re-edited into a 35-minute composition. Arc was originally released with the live album Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld. Separate releases of Arc and of Weld soon followed.

Background

According to an interview with Steve Martin of Agnostic Front that appeared in the December 1991 issue of Pulse! magazine, Arc had its genesis in a film that Young made called Muddy Track (referred to in an interview with David Fricke in the November 28, 1991 issue of Rolling Stone), which consisted of the beginnings and endings of various songs from his 1987 European tour. Young placed a video camera on his amplifier during the 1987 tour and recorded the beginnings and endings of various songs, and later edited them down into the film's soundtrack. "It was the sound of the entire band being sucked into this little limiter, being compressed and fuckin' distorted to hell," Young said to Martin, referring to the soundtrack of Muddy Track. Young then showed the video to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who suggested that he record an entire album in a similar manner. However, Arc was not recorded through video camera microphones, as was the case with Muddy Track, but instead was compiled from various professional multi-track recordings made throughout the tour.

Young's use of experimental guitar feedback was also inspired by Sonic Youth, the noise rock band who opened for parts of his live tours in 1990 and 1991.[5]

Track listing

1. "Arc (A Compilation Composition)" – 35:00

Personnel

• Neil Young – guitar, vocals, computer, feedback

Crazy Horse

• Frank "Poncho" Sampedro – guitar, univox stringman, vocals
• Billy Talbot – bass, vocals
• Ralph Molina – drums, vocals

with:

• Sal Trentino – electronics

See also

• Metal Machine Music, a studio album by Lou Reed with a similar concept.

References

На других языках

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[de] Arc (Album)

Bei Arc, das den Untertitel a compilation composition by Neil Young trägt, handelt es sich um eine knapp 35-minütige Vermischung von Liedanfängen und -enden, die während der Nordamerika-Tour von Neil Young & Crazy Horse 1991 aufgenommen wurden. Zu hören ist eine Klangcollage aus Lärm, Gitarren-Feedback und Gesangsschnipseln. Zum Teil wurde Arc zusammen mit dem während derselben Tour aufgenommenen Live-Album Weld als Special limited edition (3 CDs) unter dem Titel Arc-Weld veröffentlicht.

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- [en] Arc (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)

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[es] Arc (álbum)

Arc es un álbum en directo del músico canadiense Neil Young, publicado por la compañía discográfica Reprise Records en noviembre de 1991.

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