REED LOU/WORDS MUSIC MAY 1965

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DESCRIPTIONTO HEAR A TAPE CONTAINING THEIR EARLIEST DEMOS RECORDED ON MAY 11 1965 AND LOCKED AWAY UNTIL NOW IS TO HEAR TRACES OF THINGS RARELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: BLUES AND FOLK EARTHY AND TRADITIONAL UNCERTAIN AND HESITANT... YET BRISTLING WITH THAT RUSTY CAUSTIC LOU REED SPIRIT. IT IS A REVELATION. - WILL HODGKINSON MOJO. LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS IN COOPERATION WITH LAURIE ANDERSON PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL TITLE IN THEIR ONGOING LOU REED ARCHIVE SERIES: WORDS MUSIC MAY 1965. RELEASED IN TANDEM WITH THE LATE ARTISTS 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS THE ALBUM OFFERS AN EXTRAORDINARY UNVARNISHED AND PLAINLY POIGNANT INSIGHT INTO ONE OF AMERICAS TRUE POET-SONGWRITERS. CAPTURING REED IN HIS FORMATIVE YEARS THIS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED COLLECTION OF SONGS-PENNED BY A YOUNG LOU REED RECORDED TO TAPE WITH THE HELP OF FUTURE BANDMATE JOHN CALE AND MAILED TO HIMSELF AS A POOR MANS COPYRIGHT-REMAINED SEALED IN ITS ORIGINAL ENVELOPE AND UNOPENED FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS. ITS CONTENTS EMBODY SOME OF THE MOST VITAL GROUNDBREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC COMMITTED TO TAPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY. THROUGH EXAMINATION OF THESE SONGS ROOTED FIRMLY IN THE FOLK TRADITION WE SEE CLEARLY LOUS LASTING INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN AMERICAN MUSIC - FROM PUNK TO ART-ROCK AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. A TRUE TIME CAPSULE THESE RECORDINGS NOT ONLY MEMORIALIZE THE NASCENT SPARKS OF WHAT WOULD BECOME THE SEEDS OF THE INCREDIBLY INFLUENTIAL VELVET UNDERGROUND THEY ALSO CEMENT REED AS A TRUE OBSERVER WITH AN INNATE TALENT FOR SYNTHESIZING AND DISTILLING THE WORLD AROUND HIM INTO PURE SONIC POETRY.