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Tiny Mix Tapes Reviews: The Flaming Lips Music Review Likewise, they’ve refigured the concept of "stereo surround- sound" with their LP Zaireeka (1997), which was a 4-disc set whose individual discs were intended to be played at the same time in the same room. Zaireeka was a massive breakthrough for them, but Soft Bulletin is the true gem in their catalog. Zaireeka is the first multiple sound source record and the first that "can cause a person to become disoriented, confused or nauseated." It's a quadruple disc album that has the same songs on each disc, but the unique part is that each CD contains different parts of a song. www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/f/flaming_lips.htm   (2027 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Zaireeka - The Flaming Lips at Epinions.com Zaireeka begins with a prompt on each CD that informs the listener of the track number and CD number that is heard as a list, starting with the first disc and ending with the fourth. Zaireeka is a remarkable album not only because it’s experimental and original conceptually, but because it’s also filled with beautiful arrangements and songs that lend themselves well to that concept. Zaireeka means progress in the face of decay, which is exactly what it is. The interlacing melodies are pretty, and the songs themselves are entertaining in more than just the context of the record’s concept. www.epinions.com /content_96698273412   (2718 words)

The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka Zaireeka was finished two days previously, and we listened to it (from home-lasered cds) on the three stereos at Hellfire's disposal. And maybe, in years to come, we'll all be looking back to that release date of the 28th of October 1997. You can read some more on Zaireeka, written by Joe Janecek. www.wbr.com /flaminglips/cmp/zwaffle.htm   (1072 words)

Zaireeka Is Zaireeka was already special to me because I'd recently been to a listening party at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco shortly after the date of release and heard the album "properly" on four perfectly synched systems. Zaireeka is stored on CD, of course, so you can re-cue the tracks is the synchronization becomes precarious. Zaireeka is a great excuse to bring people together to listen to music communally. markrichardson.org /zaireeka_is.htm   (1291 words)

Lewd Cognoscenti » Blog Archive » Zaireeka - The Flaming Lips Occasionally discordant aside; when Zaireeka is working its own particular magic in your world; when the main theme is bopping from stereo to stereo and the supplementary elements are weaving this kaleidoscopic tapestry of sound. Before having heard Zaireeka, I was enamored with the concept of an album that has to be played on four stereos to be heard properly. Having now heard Zaireeka, I know that this is something far more than a clever concept, this is as close to art (art in the sense of being unreasonably beautiful; stimulating, inspiring, worthy of awe and leaving me dying to hear it again) as rock and roll has ever come. lewdcognoscenti.com /archives/316   (543 words)

Zaireeka - Flaming Lips - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk In the light of the fantastic 1999 album, 'The Soft Bulletin', it is not really for anyone to deny their genius. When observing the inventive splenour of the 1997 (apparently, although I'm sure it was early 1998) album, 'Zaireeka', it can be confirmed that this is lunatic genius, with some very unhinged minds at the controls. The effect of the melodies and frequencies flying about your ears and brain can be somewhat disorientating, but thats half the fun; I wouldn have been dissapointed if I didn't begin to feel dizzy like the booklet... www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/zaireeka-flaming-lips   (301 words)

Zaireeka - The Flaming Lips - Similar Albums A combination of the words "Zaire" and "Eureka," Zaireeka is a term coined by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne symbolizing the fusion of anarchy and genius. Pushing the concept of interactive listening into new realms of possibility, the work extends Coyne's infamous "parking lot experiments" into not merely one album, but four separate discs that can be played separately or in groups of two, three, and four with multiple stereos. Logistical nightmares aside, Zaireeka is a dense, difficult work, recommended only for the hardiest Flaming Lips fetishists; however, they're in for the musical experience of a lifetime. www.mp3.com /albums/263901/similar.html   (959 words)

Records: Flaming Lips' Zaireeka | Nov 14, 1997 Zaireeka is a mind-blowing statement of how big a record can be, consisting of eight songs and four CDs which must be played simultaneously. A similar tour is being booked as we speak.) Zaireeka is a proper Lips album, complete with the cozy, fireside melodies and spacy guitar twigs that fans have come to love. The sheer quantity of sounds on Zaireeka is stunning: sometimes the rate at which they move back and forth is akin to bullets ricocheting around a jungle gym. www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxiv/11.14.97/ae/flaming_lips.html   (625 words)

Flaming Lips - ZAIREEKA - 4CD set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) ZAIREEKA from Flaming Lips is their experimental release from 1997. Yes, that requires 4 CD players/amps and a minimum of 8 speakers to achieve the full effect, but believe me, it is well worth it. This is truly an experiment, where the result of music in and out of phase can create disorientation and confusion in the listener. janecek.com /zaireeka.html   (118 words)

Flaming Lips: Zaireeka: Pitchfork Record Review Here's the concept: four CDs to be played simultaneously, creating some sort of quadraphonic stereo sound by which you may smoke hash or perhaps stare at your lava lamp. In the meantime, he may as well have put the freakin' thing on an eight track tape or 6,000 microcassettes that each have one note on them. All Zaireeka is good for now is a mention on The $25,000 Pyramid. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/flaming-lips/zaireeka.shtml   (455 words)

Zaireeka Remember, Zaireeka was released on October 28th and only 5,000 copies were pressed. Zaireeka is my own combination of the words Zaire and Eureka. Zaireeka was recorded in Cassadaga, New York, April - August of 1997 www.geocities.com /~notyep1/flips/zaireeka.htm   (3207 words)

Salon | Sharps and Flats: Flaming Lips Weird Kids were the ones who had a little too much fun with anthills and magnifying glasses on bright summer days, the kids who spun around in circles until they either puked or fainted or both. As singer/songwriter Wayne Coyne explains in liner notes that make "The Unabomber Manifesto" seem lucid and rational, the album is his attempt to meld the sound of a collapsing civilization (he posits Zaire) with the joy of musical discovery (eureka!). Coyne suggests that "Zaireeka" can be listened to a disc at a time, but listening to it that way is jarring and amusical; long periods of silence are broken by a random cymbal crash or a country-esque croon, making it the dumbest box set in recorded history. www.salon.com /music/sharps/1997/12/12sharps.html   (575 words)

11/25/97 - CD Spotlight: Flaming Lips, Laika, Jay-Z, Mogwai, Oasis and Morrissey - IDS Online, A and E The concept, created by singer Wayne Coyne, is four recordings of the same album - eight tracks in the same order with the same length. The extensive liner notes advise that the CDs can be simultaneously listened to in any combination, with the full effect realized by all four. As musical pioneers, they should be commended for Zaireeka and hopefully someday, they or someone else will top it. www.indiana.edu /~ids/archives/1111cd.html   (1757 words)

:: View topic - Zaireeka 5.1 Surround Mix - The Flaming Lips I'm to understand there has been a surround sound mix of Zaireeka album made, and I would like to get ahold of it. the downside to any surround mix of zaireeka would be the loss of the chance/dada elements of the playback of the 4 cds at once - that is the phase shifts that result from different start times and variations in the playback speed due to the individual charactistics of the cd players. i have listened several times to Zaireeka the traditional way, and it is indeed amazing. www.saddle-creek.com /webboard/viewtopic.php?t=45296&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=   (437 words)

Rolling Stone : Zaireeka : Review On their 10th album, Zaireeka, the Flaming Lips take it one step further – they make the listener finish mixing it. When a blast of hair-raising screams rips through layers of guitars, piano and strings on "Riding to Work in the Year 2025," you're trapped in a mocking hall of mirrors that only seconds ago used to be the Brill Building. By the time Zaireeka envelops you in all of its feedback and regal horns, all of its barking dogs and disintegrating moths, you no longer care whether the whole equals the sum of its parts. www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/164100/zaireeka   (332 words)

zaireeka - Hot Search Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) It can be frustrating when you've decided to buy a zaireeka, to find that they're hard to locate in your area. If you are one of those consumers who hesitate to buy things like zaireeka over the Internet, talk to your friends about their experiences. Business on the web is booming, and to remain successful, anyone selling zaireeka knows that they have to have that good feedback, to be competitive. www.hotsearchsite.com /zaireeka   (263 words)

Zaireeka | The A.V. Club The members of the unpredictable Oklahoma band Flaming Lips have never done anything the easy way: Over the course of nine full-length albums and countless EPs, their music has been alternately and simultaneously freaked-out, acerbic, catchy, abrasive, self-indulgent and beautiful. It's challenging in the most literal sense of the word: In order to listen to it the way it was meant to be heard, you have to play its four (!) discs simultaneously on separate CD players—with friends there to help you get the synchronization just right. There are no pop singles scattered throughout Zaireeka's 45 minutes, but there are noises and voices coming out of every corner of the room. www.avclub.com /content/node/9961   (543 words)

Orgasmic Moans from the Flaming Lips (NY Rock Review) Their loopy, catchy and incredibly textured songs are their stock and trade, but The Lips have also been known to mix it up with longer, totally wacked-out concept pieces that defy any and all categorization. Promoting their unwieldy CD box set Zaireeka (4 separate CDs intended to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players), The Lips were in the house not to play their instruments, but rather to "press play" on the 40 boom boxes they'd jammed up on the stage. After a series of slightly irksome sound checks to calibrate all of the tape decks, there was an anxious countdown and then the volunteers were told to start their boom boxes in unison. www.nyrock.com /reviews/flaminglips.htm   (817 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Zaireeka: Music: Flaming Lips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) Setting it up with four CD players sounds a bit arduous, but the experience is worth it when songs like the brilliant "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)" burst out of the multiple speakers. But having only recently experienced Zaireeka, I feel it's necessary to show sme appreciation (even if it is the form of a little-read Amazon review). Zaireeka is one of their finest works and an album that I hope gets released in a more conventional (i.e. www.amazon.co.uk /Zaireeka-Flaming-Lips/dp/B000002NIQ   (1535 words)

Buy.com - Zaireeka (ltd) (Limited Edition) - Flaming Lips - CD It would be an understatement to say that ZAIREEKA, the four-disc, experimental opus from Oklahoma City's resident post-punk geniuses the Flaming Lips, is not your run-of-the-mill release. As for ZAIREEKA's music, it is an ambitious extension of the kind of psyche-noise-pop that the Flaming Lips have mastered since their mid-80s inception. As pop music goes, ZAIREEKA's about as experimental a trip as you can lay on the average listener before they run for cover, but those who remain will find their stay extremely worthwhile. www.buy.com /prod/Zaireeka_ltd_Limited_Edition/q/loc/109/63820099.html   (754 words)

Nude as the News: Flaming Lips: Zaireeka The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka is a great step in evolution for the band, and the recording age of music. Zaireeka grew out of Coyne's experiments with multiple sound sources, beginning with a parking lot full of cars with tape decks. As musical pioneers, they should be commended for Zaireeka and hopefully somebody will one day top it. www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/471   (720 words)

How to listen to “Zaireeka” on your computer at work For the uninitiated, all four CD's on Zaireeka are designed to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players. Now before I get on with the point of this piece, I have to say that the aural experience of hearing these four CD's at the same time spread throughout a large space is unlike anything I've ever experienced. Another by-product of doing this at work is that the act of syncing four separate media players on your computer at once will give you an unintended look of intense concentration on your face, which may help others mistakenly believe that you are an industrious worker. uu.cx /essays/zaireeka.html   (311 words)

Airtools Store: Zaireeka - $22.99 Last week I threw my first "Zaireeka" listening раrtу, and it was a blast--a fеаst of sound and images as invoked by the complex music аnd keen lyrics. Me and mу pals marvelled аt the many sensations listening to "Zaireeka" generated, from awe to laughter tо "Whaaaa?" when we were "probed" by the high and low frеquеnсiеs that occur on track 6 (Wayne says keep infants frоm hearing this оnе, and I would also put the dog оutsidе!). A good time was had by all, and I will definately be turning оthеrs on to this trulу wonderful work with future parties. www.airtools-store.info /good423030303030324e4951.html   (678 words)

[No title] My interest in the concert was the fact that they were performing songs from their album "Zaireeka." "Zaireeka" is packaged as a four CD set. In order to listen to it, you need to set up four CD players and play the 4 CDs at the same time. www.otal.umd.edu /amst/amst628/boombox.htm   (2288 words)

.: chromewaves.net v7.0 For each track, there is usually one disc that gets the bulk of the song structure, so over the course of the disc you will get at least one or two songs that still sound like recognizable songs. I should note that the listening last night was ridiculously loud, and what I'm describing as over-the-top sonic onslaught may have actually been the PA speakers crying out for mercy. The first was a DJ who, for what he was getting out of the speakers, seemed to be way too busy behind the decks. www.chromewaves.net /index.php?itemid=601   (942 words)

Glide Magazine News - Xingolati Cruise announces additional Flaming Lips events With the addition of a screening of The Fearless Freaks and a Wayne Coyne hosted Zaireeka party, Xingolati promises to be an event that Flaming Lips fans won’t want to miss. The documentary, directed by Bradley Beesley is the result of over 400 hours of footage that includes a decade of home movies, personal interviews, live shows, music videos, and behind the scenes of Christmas on Mars. Zaireeka is an album released by the Lips on four discs in 1997. www.glidemagazine.com /news2083.html   (379 words)

The Stranger | Seattle | Line Out: The Stranger's Music Blog | My Trip To Zaireeka Originally released in 1998, Zaireeka is a concept album made in a four cd set. Designed as more of a social experiment, you were supposed to join with three other friends, all with your own cd players, and work together to hear the complete Zaireeka. A mixdown version of the album that could be played through on one set of speakers, on one cd player. www.thestranger.com /lineout/2006/05/my_trip_to_zaireeka.php   (629 words)

The Flaming Lips Zaireeka was finished two days previously, and we listened to it (from studio-burned CDs) on the three stereos at Hellfire's disposal. As of summer 2002, 'Zaireeka' was currently in print, following on from earlier sold out print runs amounting to some 20,000 copies in total. For the historically inclined, here's a report from when the album was in it's early formation... www.flaminglips.com /content/discography/a/08_main.php?sid=   (1086 words)

Tower Records - Zaireeka - The Flaming Lips It would be an understatement to say that ZAIREEKA, the four-disc, experimental opus from Oklahoma City's resident post-punk geniuses the Flaming Lips, is not your run-of-the-mill release. As for ZAIREEKA's music, it is an ambitious extension of the kind of psyche-noise-pop that the Flaming Lips have mastered since their mid-80s inception. As pop music goes, ZAIREEKA's about as experimental a trip as you can lay on the average listener before they run for cover, but those who remain will find their stay extremely worthwhile. www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1195846   (639 words)

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