I Am Kurious Oranj
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| Studio album by The Fall | ||||
| Released | 10 October 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1988 at: Suite 16 Studios, Rochdale, England; Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland | |||
| Genre | Post-punk, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 57:01 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet | |||
| Producer | Ian Broudie, Mark E. Smith | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A– |
| NME | 8/10 |
| The Village Voice | favourable |
I Am Kurious Oranj is the eleventh studio album by English post-punk band The Fall. It was released on 10 October 1988 through record label Beggars Banquet.
The release of I Am Kurious Oranj came at the end of a relatively successful year for the group, which had also seen the release of an "accessible" album, The Frenz Experiment, and a handful of singles in the UK charts.
The album was intended as the soundtrack for the ballet I Am Curious, Orange. A live version of the album recorded during at one of the Edinburgh Festival performances of the ballet was belatedly issued in 2000 as I Am as Pure as Oranj.
I Am Kurious Oranj was intended as the soundtrack for the ballet I Am Curious, Orange, produced by contemporary dance group Michael Clark & Company, and loosely based on the 300th anniversary of William of Orange's ascension to the English throne. The album combines studio recordings with tracks recorded live during performances in Edinburgh in June 1988.
The opening song "New Big Prinz" (as well as its alternative version, "Big New Priest") is based on "Hip Priest" from the group's 1982 album Hex Enduction Hour; the original track was also used in the ballet as a backing tape. "Jerusalem" is an adaptation of William Blake's hymn using Hubert Parry's original music (although Parry does not appear in the credits). "Last Nacht" is a remix of "Bremen Nacht" from the group's previous album, The Frenz Experiment.
"Dead Beat Descendant" was written for the ballet and performed live, but did not make the album. It was later re-recorded and released as a track on the Seminal Live compilation.
I Am Kurious Oranj's title is derived from Swedish director Vilgot Sjöman's films I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and I Am Curious (Blue) (1968). It appears as I Am Kurious, Oranj on some packaging formats.
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