Last year, no wave icon Lydia Lunch saw a vinyl reissue of Shotgun Wedding, her collaboration with Rowland S. Howard. Continuing the Lunch celebration, her iconic 1990 album Conspiracy of Women is being reissued by Nicolas Jaar’s imprint Other People. The spoken word album was recorded in Berlin in 1990 and overseen by her regular collaborator J. G. Thirlwell, the prolific industrial artist better known as Foetus, among other aliases.
The release was initially recorded with J.G. Thirlwell (a.k.a. Foetus), but the reissue also includes a remix of “Why, Why Was I Born an American” that features Jaar and beloved noise rock/no wave performer Weasel Walter. Lydia Lunch says “It was a live recording. It’s part of the progression of spoken word that I’ve done since under Ronald Reagan,…
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…when I started getting political – using the language of the enemy, and the aggression, to try to make some points, to try to rattle the bird cage.”
1. i Just Got Back from Los Angeles
2. Why, Why Was I Born an American
3. American Invasion (ft. Weasel Walter and Nicolas Jaar)