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Mister Heartbreak

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Mister Heartbreak is the second album by avant-garde artist, singer and composer Laurie Anderson, released in 1984. [1]

60 relations: Adrian Belew, AllMusic, Anton Fier, Art pop, Avant-garde, Backing vocalist, Bamboo, Bass guitar, Bell, Big Science (Laurie Anderson album), Bill Laswell, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Boy soprano, Conch (instrument), David Van Tieghem, Drum kit, Electric guitar, Gayageum, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, Gravity's Rainbow, Herman Melville, Home of the Brave (1986 film), Laurie Anderson, Moby-Dick, Music video, Myspace, Nam June Paik, Nile Rodgers, Percussion instrument, Peter Gabriel, Phoebe Snow, Plywood, Refrain, Robert Christgau, Roger Linn, Rolling Stone, Roma Baran, Sang Won Park, Simmons (electronic drum company), Singing, Slit drum, So (album), Standing bell, Steelpan, Synclavier, The Tempest, The Village Voice, Thomas Pynchon, Tom-tom drum, ..., UK Albums Chart, United States Live, Video art, Violin, Vocoder, Warner Bros. Records, Whistle, William S. Burroughs, William Shakespeare, Wood block. Expand index (10 more) »

Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew (born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anton Fier

Anton Fier (born June 20, 1956) is an American drummer, composer and bandleader.

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Art pop

Art pop (also typeset as art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by pop art's integration of high and low culture, and which emphasizes the manipulation of signs, style, and gesture over personal expression.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.

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Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)

Big Science is the 1982 debut album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and the first of a 7-album deal she signed with Warner Bros. Records.

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Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Boy soprano

A boy soprano is a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range.

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Conch (instrument)

Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a musical instrument (often a signal instrument), a wind instrument that is made from a seashell (conch), the shell of several different kinds of very large sea snails.

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David Van Tieghem

David Van Tieghem (born April 21, 1955) is an American composer, musician, percussionist, drummer, keyboard player, performance artist, video artist and actor, notorious for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument and his collaborations with the experimental rock artists Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno and David Byrne.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Gayageum

The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other number of strings.

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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

"Good Morning, Mr.

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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Home of the Brave (1986 film)

Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by, and featuring the music of, Laurie Anderson.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 song "Poetry Man".

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Plywood

Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.

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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Roger Linn

Roger Linn is an American designer of electronic musical instruments and equipment.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Roma Baran

Roma Baran (born 1946 or 1947) is a Canadian record producer who is best known for her work with Laurie Anderson, Rosalie Sorrels, Annabelle Chvostek, and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

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Sang Won Park

Sang Won Park (박상원; b. Seoul, South Korea, 1950) is a Korean-born musician.

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Simmons (electronic drum company)

Simmons is an electronic drum brand, which originally was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Slit drum

A slit drum is a hollow percussion instrument.

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So (album)

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records.

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Standing bell

A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.

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Steelpan

Steelpans (also known as steel drums or pans, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steel band or orchestra) is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Synclavier

The Synclavier was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont, USA.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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Tom-tom drum

A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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United States Live

United States Live was the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson.

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Video art

Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Whistle

A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wood block

A wood block (also spelled as a single word, woodblock) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Heartbreak

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