Recent Forgeries 1998
| Released | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Producer | Soundwaves |
Recent Forgeries is the third studio album by the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 1998.
The album features songs from his last album One Less Thing to Worry About, released in 1997, but there are two new songs called “1/2 Red” and “Massage School”. The album also comes with a book containing pictures and poetry.
Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Chaco” | 0:11 |
| 2. | “Show” | 0:59 |
| 3. | “Clear” | 0:41 |
| 4. | “Cuttings” | 0:49 |
| 5. | “Wading” | 0:32 |
| 6. | “1/2 Red” | |
| 7. | “Meet” | 2:09 |
| 8. | “Laureles” | 0:15 |
| 9. | “Reno” | 0:22 |
| 10. | “Cruelty” | 0:06 |
| 11. | “1959″ | 3:22 |
| 12. | “Week Ends” | 1:55 |
| 13. | “Matinee” | 0:17 |
| 14. | “Prepare” | 0:45 |
| 15. | “Bedtime Story For Henry” | 2:39 |
| 16. | “Massage School” |
- Viggo Mortensen
- Buckethead
- Exene Cervenka
- Henry Mortensen
- Travis Dickerson
At All 2008
| Released | January, 2008 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | November, 2007 |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 50:00 |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
| Producer | Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen |
At All is the tenth album by the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 2008. The album was recorded before his last album Time Waits for Everyone of 2007 and released on the label TDRS Music along with his last album.
The album features the eighth collaboration with avant-grade guitarist Buckethead, plus producer and owner of the label TDRS Music, Travis Dickerson in one song. The rest of the songs are played by Viggo Mortensen alone, according to Mortensen when referring to the album, he said:
| “ | These soundscapes are not an invitation to drift off to sleep, but neither do they prohibit dreaming. As Poe put it, “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night”.
CreditsViggo Mortensen Buckethead Travis Dickerson |
Time Waits for Everyone 2007
| Released | November 23, 2007 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word, Avant-Garde |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
| Producer | Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen |
Time Waits for Everyone is the ninth studio album of the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 2007. It is Viggo’s first release to only feature himself playing piano without the collaboration of anyone else. All tracks are improvisations inspired from trips to Hungary, Germany, Poland, Russia, and according to Mortensen, remembrance of things past.
The album was released on Mortensen’s label Perceval Press but was later re-released on TDRS Music along with his next album At All.
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Confession” | 3:24 |
| 2. | “Berlin poem” | 2:44 |
| 3. | “Farvel farbror” | 7:02 |
| 4. | “Thursday” | 2:22 |
| 5. | “The lake” | 5:11 |
| 6. | “Oswiecem poem” | 3:39 |
| 7. | “Warzawa morning poem” | 1:00 |
| 8. | “You are there” | 3:39 |
| 9. | “Danube poem” | 4:34 |
| 10. | “Ashes” | 2:18 |
| 11. | “Ural poem” | 3:28 |
| 12. | “Time waits for everyone – usually” | 4:41 |
| 13. | “Time waits for everyone – always” | 5:47 |
| 14. | “Seed” | 2:56 |
| 15. | “Belzec poem” | 3:15 |
| 16. | “Munchen morning poem” | 1:17 |
| 17. | “Treblinka poem” | 1:59 |
| 18. | “Amends” | 5:15 |
Credits
- Viggo Mortensen – piano, voice, and producer
- Travis Dickerson – producer, engineer, mastering, and mixing
3 Fools 4 April 2005
| Released | December, 2006 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | April 1, 2005 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
3 Fools 4 April is the first CD/DVD made by the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 2006. The album was recorded at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California (like his two live albums Live at Beyond Baroque and Live At Beyond Baroque II) on April Fools Day (April 1) of 2005.
The album features the reading of Viggo Mortensen, his son Henry Mortensen, and Scott Wannberg. Some of the readings come from poets like the Chilean Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda, Chuang Tse, or even his ex-wive Exene Cervenka, while some of them are anonymous.
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Introduction” | 1:02 | |
| 2. | “everything is really water” | 4:10 | |
| 3. | “the war” | 1:18 | |
| 4. | “freedom fighter” | 1:02 | |
| 5. | “back to babylon” | 3:28 | |
| 6. | “hunters anonymous” | 1:11 | |
| 7. | “white hot heart” | 0:46 | |
| 8. | “elk” | shaeryn smith | 1:51 |
| 9. | “the discourse on peace” | lawrence ferlinghetti | 0:37 |
| 10. | “open heart university” | spike milligan | 0:59 |
| 11. | “god loves it when you dance” | 1:37 | |
| 12. | “second chance, give or take a few” | 1:47 | |
| 13. | “march” | 1:25 | |
| 14. | “the smiling samurai” | 2:23 | |
| 15. | “5 haiku” | 0:59 | |
| 16. | “america” | pablo neruda | 1:40 |
| 17. | “outlaws in the sun” | 1:44 | |
| 18. | “virtual unreality” | exene cervenka | 0:34 |
| 19. | “linger” | 3:45 | |
| 20. | “kingman run” | 5:39 | |
| 21. | “the mice” | charles bukowski | 0:52 |
| 22. | “a matter of choice” | 0:24 | |
| 23. | “strange food hoedown” | 1:04 | |
| 24. | “why i’m not a businessman” | 1:49 | |
| 25. | “public relations” | 1:56 | |
| 26. | “no mercy” | 2:50 | |
| 27. | “kelsey” | 0:36 | |
| 28. | “battle of wits” | 0:48 | |
| 29. | “view” | muriel nelson | 1:31 |
| 30. | “rivers of pain” | 1:18 | |
| 31. | “world shaking baker” | 1:50 | |
| 32. | “madrid to new york” | 3:27 | |
| 33. | “nobody has to die” | 1:44 | |
| 34. | “down and back” | 1:18 | |
| 35. | “perfect world” | exene cervenka | 3:53 |
| 36. | “penn. ave. pantasy #456″ | 1:53 | |
| 37. | “utopian chaos” | 0:37 | |
| 38. | “to my daughter, young-a” | yu ch’i-hwan | 1:31 |
| 39. | “stupid is as stupid does” | 2:25 | |
| 40. | “the rose” | anonymous | 0:43 |
| 41. | “last round: Truce /Pioneers /Chuang Tse” | 2:43 |
DVD
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “the war” | ||
| 2. | “second chance, give or take a few” | ||
| 3. | “back to babylon” | ||
| 4. | “the smiling samurai” | ||
| 5. | “5 haiku” | ||
| 6. | “a matter of choice” | ||
| 7. | “hunters anonymous” | ||
| 8. | “white hot heart” | ||
| 9. | “the discourse on peace” | lawrence ferlinghetti | |
| 10. | “nobody has to die” | ||
| 11. | “elk” | shaeryn smith | |
| 12. | “public relations” | ||
| 13. | “no mercy” | ||
| 14. | “why i’m not a businessman” | ||
| 15. | “linger” | ||
| 16. | “kingman run” | ||
| 17. | “the mice” | charles bukowski | |
| 18. | “first light” | ||
| 19. | “rivers of pain” | ||
| 20. | “freedom fighter” | ||
| 21. | “fossils” | ||
| 22. | “penn.ave fantasy #456″ | ||
| 23. | “virtual unreality” | exene cervenka | |
| 24. | “communion” | ||
| 25. | “strange food hoedown” | ||
| 26. | “utopian chaos” | ||
| 27. | “madrid to new york” | ||
| 28. | “ode to the bedpan” | ||
| 29. | “kelsey” | ||
| 30. | “march” | ||
| 31. | “empathy hoedown” | ||
| 32. | “battle of wits” | ||
| 33. | “hallowe’en” | ||
| 34. | “outlaws in the sun” | ||
| 35. | “chuang tse” | chuang tse |
Credits
Viggo Mortensen – editing
Henry Mortensen
Scott Wannberg
Travis Dickerson – editing, mixing, mastering
Intelligence Failure 2005
| Released | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | TDRS Music Chatsworth, CA |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 40:39 |
| Label | Perceval Press |
| Producer | Viggo Mortensen |
Intelligence Failure is the eighth studio album of the actor Viggo Mortensen and seventh with the avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, released on 2005. The album combines traditional and original compositions, as well as clips of public speeches, most notably of George W. Bush and members of his administration. The album also features the producer, and keyboardist Travis Dickerson as well as Viggo’s son, Henry Mortensen, who has regularly performed with his father, and Walter Mortensen. According to Viggo Mortensen when talking about the album he says:
| “ | Intelligence Failure is a musical ode to the dream of preserving loving, civilized society in trying, often cruel times. Rising above the deceit and greed that have plagued and eventually conquered all the world’s empires, there have always been brave individuals and isolated groups that have stubbornly refused to surrender their belief in humanity. | ” |
The album is dedicated to Casey, and Cindy Sheehan, their family, and all citizens in U.S.A. The label TDRS Music made available an excerpt of the song “What kind of Nation” from the album to be downloaded from their webpage.
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Demolition of the Willing” | 7:25 |
| 2. | “Voice of the People” | 3:13 |
| 3. | “Spain” | 5:13 |
| 4. | “Weapons of Mass Distraction” | 7:27 |
| 5. | “Why They Hate Us” | 1:47 |
| 6. | “It’s the Economy” | 4:29 |
| 7. | “Recess Disappointment” | 2:09 |
| 8. | “What Kind of Nation” | 8:55 |
Credits
Viggo added the names of George W. Bush and members of his administration to the credits of the album because he used speeches that they made, not that they performed on the album.
Brigit
Buckethead
Travis Dickerson
Henry Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
Walter Mortensen
Speeches by
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
C. Ray Nagin
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Karl Rove
Donald Rumsfeld
Cindy Sheehan
Howard Zinn
This That and The Other 2004
| Released | November 2004 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 44:00 |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
This That and The Other is the first compilation album by the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 2004. The album compiles songs from five of his albums: One Less Thing to Worry About from 1997, One Man’s Meat from 1999, The Other Parade from 1999, Pandemoniumfromamerica of 2003, and Please Tomorrow of 2004. Most of those albums are out of print.
The album includes three new songs, named “This”, which opens the album, “That”, and “The Other”, which finishes the album – all of them building the album’s title. The compilation features long-time collaborateur Buckethead for the sixth time, plus Viggo’s son Henry Mortensen and the owner, producer and keyboardist of TDRS Music, Travis Dickerson. The album is dedicated to all trees, living or dead, inhabited or not.
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “This” | 1:26 |
| 2. | “Edit” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:29 |
| 3. | “Massage School” (From the album The Other Parade) | 4:31 |
| 4. | “Cuttings” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:44 |
| 5. | “Necessity of Lorca” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 1:12 |
| 6. | “Moonset” (From the album Please Tomorrow) | 1:23 |
| 7. | “Laureles” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:15 |
| 8. | “Eleonora” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 1:08 |
| 9. | “Leave It” (From the album Pandemoniumfromamerica) | 2:27 |
| 10. | “Parker” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 1:07 |
| 11. | “The Show” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:57 |
| 12. | “Clear” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:45 |
| 13. | “Trouble at the Launchpad” (From the album The Other Parade) | 4:12 |
| 14. | “Otoño Catalan” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:40 |
| 15. | “Cursive” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:38 |
| 16. | “Chicken Surgery” (From the album One Man’s Meat) | 2:04 |
| 17. | “That” | 4:00 |
| 18. | “To Sleep” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:31 |
| 19. | “Independence” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 1:36 |
| 20. | “Week Ends” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 1:56 |
| 21. | “Jack’s Box” (From the album One Man’s Meat) | 0:39 |
| 22. | “Ganas” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:23 |
| 23. | “Wading” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:33 |
| 24. | “Matinee” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:20 |
| 25. | “Den Gang Jeg Drog Afsted” (From the album Pandemoniumfromamerica) | 3:38 |
| 26. | “The New Year” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:17 |
| 27. | “Prepare” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:47 |
| 28. | “They Ate Your Family” (From the album Pandemoniumfromamerica) | 1:22 |
| 29. | “Blow” (From the album One Less Thing to Worry About) | 0:19 |
| 30. | “The Other” | 2:51 |
Credits
- Viggo Mortensen
- Buckethead
- Travis Dickerson
- Henry Mortensen
Please Tomorrow 2004
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| Released | September 2004 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 40:37 |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
Please Tomorrow is the seventh studio album from the actor Viggo Mortensen and the fifth collaboration with the avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, released in 2004. The album tells the story of a single “long night’s journey into day”. It is completely instrumental and written by Mortensen except for the last track of the album which was written by Buckethead. Henry Mortensen and the keyboardist, producer and owner of the label TDRS Music, Travis Dickerson, guested on the album.
Please Tomorrow is part of the compilation album This That and The Other, released the same year and compiling the albums One Less Thing to Worry About from 1997, One Man’s Meat from 1999, The Other Parade from 1999, and Pandemoniumfromamerica of 2003.
The seventh song, “Moonset”, can be downloaded for free on the label’s website.
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Swallows to bats” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 2. | “Nocturne” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 3. | “Dream One” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 4. | “Dream Two” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 5. | “Dream Three” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 6. | “Frost” | Viggo Mortensen | |
| 7. | “Moonset” | Viggo Mortensen | 1:23 |
| 8. | “Sunrise” | Buckethead |
Credits
- Viggo Mortensen – piano, organ, keyboards, percussion/drums, guitar, rhodes
- Buckethead – guitars
- Travis Dickerson
- Henry Mortensen
Live At Beyond Baroque II
| Released | September, 2004 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | November, 2003 |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 85:18 |
| Label | Perceval Press |
Live At Beyond Baroque II is the second live album from the actor Viggo Mortensen, released on 2004. The album was recorded on the literary space Beyond Baroque in Venice, California as well as his last live album Live At Beyond Baroque of 1999.
The album features the collaboration from Marvin Bell (Iowa Poet Laureate), Mike McGee (2003 National Poetry Slam Champion), Patricia Smith (author of Close to Death, nominee for the Pulitzer in journalism), Luis J. Rodriquez (author of Always Running, activist), Viggo Mortensen (poet, actor), Georganne Deen (author of Western Witch, Season of the, painter), Mark Eleveld (author of The Spoken Word Revolution), Saul Williams (author of Said the Shotgun to the Head), and Regie Gibson (author of Storms Beneath the Skin) with musical accompaniment by John Condron. The album contains a total of 33 tracks, divided on 2 disks. The CDs credits only show the performers but not the tracks.
CD 1
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Mark Eleveld” | |
| 2. | “Marvin Bell” | |
| 3. | “Mike McGee” | |
| 4. | “Patricia Smith” | |
| 5. | “Luis J. Rodriguez” |
CD 2
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Viggo Mortensen” | |
| 2. | “Georgeanne Deen” | |
| 3. | “Saul Williams” | |
| 4. | “Regie Gibson” |
Credits
- Marvin Bell – spoken word
- Mike McGee – spoken word
- Patricia Smith – spoken word
- Luis J. Rodriquez – spoken word
- Viggo Mortensen – spoken word
- Georganne Deen – spoken word
- Mark Eleveld – spoken word
- Saul Williams – spoken word
- Regie Gibson – spoken word
- John Condron – music accompaniment
- Michele Perez – design
- co-produced by Perceval Press and EM Press
Pandemoniumfromamerica2003
| Released | November 2003 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 44:22 |
| Label | TDRS Music Perceval Press |
| Producer | Viggo Mortensen |
Pandemoniumfromamerica or also called Pandemonium From America is the sixth studio album by the actor Viggo Mortensen and the fourth collaboration with avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, released in 2003. The album is dedicated to Noam Chomsky. Viggo said about the album:
| “ | Using William Blake, Jonathan Swift, and Rumi’s prescient wordplay as its point of departure, Pandemoniumfromamerica is a sonic snapshot of 21st century disorientation and dissent. | ” |
Besides featuring Buckethead, the album also features Viggo’s son Henry Mortensen, keyboardist Travis Dickerson, and the actors Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan (Frodo, Pippin, and Merry respectively from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy). The label TDRS Music released the album and also posted several pictures on their web page from the recording sessions of this album in which they feature all the collaborators.
Tracks from the album are part of the compilation This, That, and The Other, released in 2004, also compiling the albums One Less Thing to Worry About from 1997, One Man’s Meat from 1999, The Other Parade from 1999, and Please Tomorrow of 2004.
Track Listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Den gang jeg drog afsted” | 3:37 |
| 2. | “Back to Babylon” | 3:43 |
| 3. | “Pandemoniumfromamerica” | 2:58 |
| 4. | “Gone” | 3:53 |
| 5. | “They ate your family” | 1:23 |
| 6. | “I want mami” | 3:36 |
| 7. | “Red river valley” | 4:52 |
| 8. | “Leave it” | 2:27 |
| 9. | “Holyhead” | 3:33 |
| 10. | “Fall of Troy” | 1:17 |
| 11. | “Shadow” | 4:44 |
| 12. | “Cuba on paper” | 3:29 |
| 13. | “Maybe” | 2:57 |
| 14. | “Half fling” | 1:40 |
Credits
By Song
- “Den gang jeg drog afsted” – Buckethead (guitars), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, organ, piano), and Travis Dickerson (percusion)
- “Back to Babylon” – Henry Mortensen (bass), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, keyboard, percussion)
- “Pandemoniumfromamerica” – William Blake (words), Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (bass), Viggo Mortensen (harmonica, vocals, piano)
- “Gone” – Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (piano, vocals), Viggo Mortensen (piano, vocals), Elijah Wood (vocals)
- “They ate your family” – Buckethead (guitars), Viggo Mortensen (vocals)
- “I want mami” – Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (vocals), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, keyboards, wheelchair)
- “Red river valley” – Buckethead (guitars, bass), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, lesliemonica)
- “Leave it” – Buckethead (guitars), Viggo Mortensen (Rhodes)
- “Holyhead” – Jonathan Swift (words), Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (bass), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, piano, harmonica)
- “Fall of Troy” – Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (shaker, tambourine), Viggo Mortensen (keyboards, drums)
- “Shadow” – Dominic Monaghan (words, vocals), Buckethead (guitars), Billy Boyd (bass), Travis Dickerson (keyboards), Henry Mortensen (rhodes), Elijah Wood (percussion), Viggo Mortensen (drums, vocals)
- “Cuba on paper” – Noam Chomsky (words, vocals), Rumi (words), Buckethead (guitars), Havana (streets), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, drums, harmonica)
- “Maybe” – Dominic Monaghan (words, vocals), Buckethead (guitars), Billy Boyd (bass), Elijah Wood (piano), Henry Mortensen (keyboards, drums), Viggo Mortensen (rhodes, drums)
- “Half fling” – Elijah Wood (words, vocals), Dominic Monaghan (words, vocals), Buckethead (guitars), Henry Mortensen (bass), Billy Boyd (drums), Viggo Mortensen (vocals, harmonica)
General Credits
- Viggo Mortensen – producer
- Travis Dickerson – recording and masterization
Live at Beyond Baroque 1999
| Released | October, 1999 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | March 4, 1999 |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Label | Smart Art Press |
Live at Beyond Baroque is the first live album performed by Viggo Mortensen, released in 1999. The album was recorded at the literary space Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, and is currently out of print and extremely difficult to find.
The album features the collaborations and readings of Viggo Mortensen, his ex-wife Exene Cervenka, Tom Patchett, Karen Finley, and Jerry Stahl. It includes songs from his second album One Less Thing to Worry About and five new songs.
Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Bedtime Story for Henry” | 2:39 |
| 2. | “Chaco” | 0:11 |
| 3. | “Clear” | 0:41 |
| 4. | “Edit” | 0:27 |
| 5. | “For Sandy Dennis” | |
| 6. | “Hillside” | |
| 7. | “Home” | |
| 8. | “Isadore Demsky” | |
| 9. | “Keepsake” | |
| 10. | “Matinee” | 0:17 |
Credits
- Viggo Mortensen
- Exene Cervenka
- Tom Patchett
- Karen Finley
- Jerry Stahl
One Man’s Meat 1999
| Released | November 1999 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | December 1998 – January 1999 |
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Length | 31:11 |
| Label | TDRS Music |
| Producer | Travis Dickerson |
One Man’s Meat is the fifth studio album of the actor Viggo Mortensen released in 1999. It is Viggo’s third album to feature avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, as well as his ex wife Exene Cervenka, the keyboardist and producer Travis Dickerson, DJ Bonebrake, and also Lysa Flores, all from the label TDRS Music where Viggo released the album.
The album is long out of print but in 2004 the label released a compilation called This, That, and The Other which includes tracks of this album as well as parts of One Less Thing to Worry About from 1997, The Other Parade from 1999, Pandemoniumfromamerica from 2003, and Please Tomorrow of 2004. Viggo Mortensen said about the album:
| “ | An exploration of meat and meat by products conceived and performed by carnivores and vegetarians, for consumption by all. | ” |
Track Listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Birth” | 1:13 |
| 2. | “Barbecue Kingdom” | 3:21 |
| 3. | “Counting Calories” | 1:16 |
| 4. | “Inner Beauty” | 6:19 |
| 5. | “Go Bad” | 0:54 |
| 6. | “One Man’s Meat” | 2:09 |
| 7. | “Holy Communion” | 2:26 |
| 8. | “Koughka” | 1:06 |
| 9. | “Products” | 0:29 |
| 10. | “Chicken Surgery” | 2:04 |
| 11. | “To Market” | 0:16 |
| 12. | “Africa” | 0:37 |
| 13. | “Carne De Nino” | 1:01 |
| 14. | “Joe” | 0:19 |
| 15. | “Jack’s Box” | 0:38 |
| 16. | “Bette Davis, 1962″ | 0:45 |
| 17. | “Fortune Cookies” | 8:18 |
Credits
Brigit
Buckethead
DJ Bonebrake
Exene Cervenka
Travis Dickerson
Adrian Esparza
Lysa Flores
Zak Marmalefsky
Hank Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
Pilar Perez
Donita Sparks
Recorded live at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica
Track 10 recorded at Viggo’s in Venice, California
tracks 15 and 17 recorded at Travis Dickerson Recording Studios
Travis Dickerson – Producer, Masterization and mixing
Viggo Moryensen – Masterization and mixing
The Other Parade 1999
| Released | 1999 (original release) 2003 (re-issue) |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Label | TDRS Music (original release) Perceval Press (re-issue) |
| Producer | Viggo Mortensen |
The Other Parade is the fourth studio album of the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 1999. The album was out of print a year later but the demand for the album led to a small re-print on Mortensen’s label Perceval Press in 2003. The cover of the album features Japanese lettering.
A compilation was released in 2004 called This That and The Other which also compiles the albums One Less Thing to Worry About from 1997, One Man’s Meat from 1999, Pandemoniumfromamerica from 2003, and Please Tomorrow from 2004.
The album is the second collaboration between Viggo and avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. Further guests were his then wife Exene Cervenka from the band X, the keyboardist and producer Travis Dickerson, and D. J. Bonebrake. The album features the song “Massage School”, the closing song from his last album, Recent Forgeries. The album is a collection of mood-altering sound experiments.
Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Death of a Dentist” | 2:30 |
| 2. | “Massage School” | 4:31 |
| 3. | “Trouble at the Launchpad” | 4:12 |
| 4. | “Strike at the Wig Factory” | 5:05 |
| 5. | “The Other Parade” | 8:15 |
| 6. | “Room for Nine” | 2:47 |
| 7. | “Dream of the See-Saw Repairman” | 3:30 |
| 8. | “Night in an Animal Hospital” | 3:52 |
| 9. | “… 3, 4 …” | 5:03 |
Credits
Buckethead – guitar, bass, robot, weeping, and shuffling
D. J. Bonebrake – drums, chorus, vibes, ropes, telephone, marimba, and vocals
Exene Cervenka – guitar, chorus, flags, and dog chorus
Brigit – vocals
Sarah P. Smith – trombone, chorus, plastic flute, and vocals
Hank C. Mortensen – piano, drums, thread, and chorus
Travis Dickerson – hammond organ, and woodpile
Zak Marmalefski: guitar, and chorus
Viggo Mortensen: motorcycle muffler, drill, chorus, percussion, keyboard, wheelchair, vocals, drums, and xylophone
Travis Dickerson – Edition, Mixing and Masterization
Viggo Mortensen – Edition, Mixing, Masterization, and producer
Buckethead – Edition, Mixing and Masterization
Tracks 1,2, 4-8 recorded live at Viggo’s, Venice, California
Tracks 3 and 9 recorded live at TDRS Music, Chatsworth, CA.
One Less Thing To Worry About 1997
Studio Album by Viggo Mortensen
| Released | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Spoken word |
| Label | TDRS Music |
| Producer | Soundwaves |
One Less Thing to Worry About is the second studio album of the actor Viggo Mortensen, released in 1997. The album features avant-garde guitarist Buckethead, Viggo’s then wife Exene Cervenka from the band X and DJ Bonebrake, all of them releasing on the label TDRS Music where the album was re-released two years later. The album is out of print for several years but some tracks were made available again in 2004 on a compilation called This, That, and The Other.
The album features poetry as lyrics to the songs and most of the songs are not longer than a minute, and some of them not being longer than 15 seconds. Several titles of the songs refer to words in Spanish like “Lagrimas Puras” (“Pure Tears” in English) and also “Necessity of Lorca” referring to the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Writing” | 1:14 |
| 2. | “Cursive” | 0:39 |
| 3. | “Envidia” | 3:57 |
| 4. | “Cuttings” | 0:49 |
| 5. | “Wading” | 0:32 |
| 6. | “Matinee” | 0:17 |
| 7. | “Independence” | 1:36 |
| 8. | “Edit” | 0:27 |
| 9. | “I’m Not A Singer” | 4:22 |
| 10. | “To Sleep” | 0:29 |
| 11. | “Opportunity” | 0:15 |
| 12. | “Recuerdo” | 0:07 |
| 13. | “Pioneers” | 0:16 |
| 14. | “Necessity of Lorca” | 1:11 |
| 15. | “Week Ends” | 1:55 |
| 16. | “Fat” | 1:04 |
| 17. | “Prepare” | 0:45 |
| 18. | “Blow” | 0:18 |
| 19. | “Forgetful” | 2:38 |
| 20. | “Chaco” | 0:11 |
| 21. | “Eleonora” | 1:08 |
| 22. | “Parrillada” | 0:25 |
| 23. | “Ganas” | 0:22 |
| 24. | “Lagrimas Puras” | 4:03 |
| 25. | “The Show” | 0:59 |
| 26. | “Clear” | 0:41 |
| 27. | “Wet Dog” | 0:25 |
| 28. | “Parker” | 1:06 |
| 29. | “Meet” | 2:09 |
| 30. | “Laureles” | 0:15 |
| 31. | “Tell Yourself” | 0:19 |
| 32. | “Reno” | 0:22 |
| 33. | “Cruelty” | 0:06 |
| 34. | “1959″ | 3:22 |
| 35. | “The New Year” | 0:18 |
| 36. | “Otono Catalan” | 0:39 |
| 37. | “Single” | 0:08 |
| 38. | “Lunch(Him)” | 1:08 |
| 39. | “Stop” | 0:05 |
| 40. | “Henry, Age 2″ | 0:27 |
| 41. | “Henry, Age 3″ | 0:15 |
| 42. | “Lunch(Her)” | 1:17 |
| 43. | “The Night We Called It A Day” | 2:32 |
| 44. | “Bedtime Story for Henry” | 2:39 |
| 45. | “Reading” | 0:41 |
Players:
Ahmed Abdullah
Andy Armer
D.J. Bonebrake
Brigit
Buckethead
Exene Cervenka
Margaret Comer
Travis Dickerson
Danny Krieger
Luck
Duke McVinnie
Henry Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
Sara P. Smith.
Soundwaves – Producer
Travis Dickerson – mixing, masterization, design, and recording
Viggo Mortensen – design, artwork and all other pictures of the album
Pieter Lessing – cover photo
