Mister Heartbreak
by Laurie Anderson
- Type: Album
- Released: 12 June 1984
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United States
- Length: 40:15
- Community rating: 3.62/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Laurie Anderson's sophomore release is a highly surreal, meditative exploration of avant-garde pop and spoken-word poetry. Co-produced with Bill Laswell and Peter Gabriel, the album blends intricate electronic textures with worldbeat rhythms and synclaviers to create a distinctly hypnotic, cryptic auditory environment.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, progressive, experimental, electronic, spoken-word, conceptual
Tracklist
- Sharkey's Day (7:47)
- Langue D'Amour (6:18)
- Gravity's Angel (6:06)
- Kokoku (7:08)
- Excellent Birds (3:17)
- Blue Lagoon (7:08)
- Sharkey's Night (2:29)
Credits
- Laurie Anderson - primary artist, cover, sleeve [inner-sleeve], artwork [art], graphics, daw [synclavier], graphics [cover and inner sleeve], producer, songwriter, vocals, violin, whistle, conch [electronic conches], vocoder, bells, percussion, daw [synclavier, uncredited], violin [uncredited], whistle [uncredited], design/illustration
- Bob Bielecki - artwork [synclavier spectral displays by], technician [technical consultant and systems design]
- Bill Laswell - bass, producer, mixed by, bass [uncredited]
- Leanne Ungar - engineer
- Adrian Belew - guitar, guitar [uncredited]
- Howie Weinberg - lacquer cut by, mastered by [originally mastered by], mastering
- Bud Shark - lithography [printed by]
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by [originally mastered by], mastering
- Mike Krowiak - mixed by
- Roma Baran - producer
- Peter Gabriel - songwriter, producer, backing vocals [back-up vocals], daw [synclavier], vocals, drum machine [linn drum]
- B.J. Nelson - backing vocals [back-up vocals], backing vocals [back-up vocals, uncredited]
- Dolette McDonald - backing vocals [back-up vocals], backing vocals [back-up vocals, uncredited]
- Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals [back-up vocals], backing vocals [back-up vocals, uncredited]
- Daniel Ponce - bata [iya, ikonkolo], shekere, bells [double bell from the cameroons], bata [iya, ikonkolo, uncredited], shekere [uncredited], bells [double bell from the cameroons, uncredited]
- Anton Fier - drums, tom tom [toms], wood block, drums [uncredited]
- David van Tieghem - percussion [plywood, bowls], electronic drums [simmons drums], drums, steel drums, slit drum [gato], percussion [bamboo]
- Atsuko Yuma - backing vocals [back-up vocals]
- Phoebe Snow - backing vocals [back-up vocals]
- Connie Harvey - backing vocals [japanese chorus]
- Janet Wright - backing vocals [japanese chorus]
- Sang Won Park - gayageum [kayagum]
- Nile Rodgers - guitar
- Bill Blaber - soprano saxophone
- William S. Burroughs - vocals