Lee Ranaldo

   
Artist: Lee Ranaldo

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Other
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 From Here to Infinity

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Dirty Windows

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smit)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 5


   
 Clouds

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Broken Circle [EP]

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 5


   
 East Jesus

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Scriptures of the Golden Eternity

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 3


   
 A Perfect Day ...

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 4

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Lee Ranaldo, cofounder of avant-garde rock group Sonic Youth, was born in 1956 in East Norwich, NY. In addition to changeless touring with Sonic Youth, Ranaldo has been extremely active in the New York medicine scene for the past 20 eld, transcription and collaborating with numerous acts of the Apostles, producing discs, and publishing various books of poetry and journal entries.


Ranaldo accompanied SUNY Binghamton in Binghamton, NY, where he played in an observational tinder outfit called the Fluks (named after the dadaist prowess movement, Fluxus). His early influences include many psychedelic California bands from the late '60s, including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Hot Tuna, as well as early New York City punk units like the Ramones, Television, and Talking Heads.


After moving to New York in 1979, Ranaldo briefly attempted to revive the Fluks in front playing in a series of acts including Rhys Chatham and Plus Instruments (with whom he recorded an LP in 1982). Through Chatham, Ranaldo met the charismatic composer Glenn Branca, world Health Organization created van pieces for electric guitar ensembles. Through the burbling business district no wave scene of the former '80s, Ranaldo met future Sonic Youth bandmates Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon.


Passim the '80s, the dance orchestra worked hard to sustain themselves, recording and touring perpetually. The early years of the set ar documented in a book of road journals written by Ranaldo and promulgated by Soft Skull Press in the mid-'90s. In 1987, he released his first base solo album, From Here to Infinity, on SST Records, a vinyl discharge with locking grooves at the death of each caterpillar track.


By the early '90s, later the completion and subsequent canonization of their originative Moon Nation (and credibly part by dint of sheer survival), Sonic Youth was looked up to as elders in the fledgling alternative music scene, playacting as mentors to scads of younger bands (including Nirvana). In this role, Ranaldo has produced albums for Babes in Toyland, You Am I, Deity Guns, and others.


Ranaldo's role in the ever-experimental Sonic Youth has been an significant one, acting as a textural axis of rotation for Gordon and Moore. Though he typically only contributed a handful of songs to each Sonic Youth recording, Ranaldo rapidly developed his own songwriting style -- throbbing beats topped with beat-influenced, half-spoken/half-sung poesy delivered in Ranaldo's reassuring, gently convinced voice, such as "Eric's Trip" on Daydream Nation and the title track off of 1999's NYC Ghosts & Flowers.


In accession to cathartic a script of his poetry (as well published by Soft Skull Press), Ranaldo has too emended a bulk of tour journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza Tour written by Moore, Beck, Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement), Courtney Love, and others. Ranaldo too has an ongoing collaboration with jazz drummer William Hooker. The deuce create discordant medicine -- Hooker on drums, Ranaldo on limited guitars, synthesizers, and other electronics -- piece pickings turns reading material and improvising poetry.