''SYR2: Slaapkamers met slagroom'' is an EP by American

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band Sonic Youth. It was released on 12" vinyl on September 2, 1997, and was the second in a series of experimental and mostly instrumental releases issued on the band's own SYR label.

Background

''SYR2'' followed the band's tradition of having the liner notes of SYR releases written in foreign languages, in this case,

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. "Slaapkamers met slagroom" is Dutch for "bedrooms with whipped cream". An error in the original production of the vinyl resulted in a small number of the initial pressings accidentally being on black vinyl. It is unknown how many of these were produced. After realizing this, the remaining production of the vinyl version was on clear blue vinyl. An abbreviated version of the instrumental 17-minute title composition (with added vocals courtesy of

Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, Califor ...

) appeared on the group's 1998 album '' A Thousand Leaves'' as the song "The Ineffable Me". Additionally, a melody from "Stil" was fleshed out to create the song "Snare, Girl", also from ''A Thousand Leaves''.

Track listing

Personnel

Sonic Youth *

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Mo ...

Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''Rolling ...

* Steve Shelley Technical *

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* Greg Calbi – mastering * Chris Habib – sleeve design

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1997 EPs Sonic Youth EPs Experimental rock EPs Noise rock EPs Sonic Youth Recordings albums