Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) is an experimental music group formed by
Peter Gordon in
New York
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in April 1977.
The band is associated with the 1970s New York
downtown music scene.
A number of the players that would form the band came together in 1976, to perform Peter Gordon's ''Symphony in Four Movements'' at
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founde ...
.
Gordon was then asked to perform at a benefit concert for the New York non-profit
Performing Artservices in Spring 1977, and so formed the Love of Life Orchestra with
Arthur Russell,
Peter Zummo
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,
Jill Kroesen,
"Blue" Gene Tyranny,
David Van Tieghem
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,
Scott Johnson, Ernie Brooks,
Ed Friedman
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Friedman was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied literature at the University of California at San Diego. He moved to New York City in 1971 , and
Kathy Acker
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. The group has had a widely varying lineup since, and other notable past members include
Laurie Anderson
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,
Rhys Chatham
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, and
Ned Sublette
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.
In 2007, two tracks by the group — "Another Heartbreak" and "Don't Don't Redux" — were prominently featured on the ''
FabricLive.36'' compilation curated by James Murphy and Pat Mahoney of
LCD Soundsystem
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, generating a resurgence of interest in the band.
Partial discography
* ''Star Jaws'' (
Lovely Music Lovely Music (full name: Lovely Music Ltd.) is an American record label devoted to new American music. Based in New York City, the label was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson, an outgrowth of her nonprofit production company Performing Artservices In ...
) 1978, reissued on CD 2008
Peter Gordon biography at Lovely Music
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* ''Extended Niceties'' EP (Infidelity) 1980Geneva
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'' (Infidelity) 1980DFA Records
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) 2010, retrospective.
References
American post-punk music groups
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