| Excerpts from a Love Circus | ||||
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| Released | September 9, 1996 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock | |||
| Length | 51:52 | |||
| Label | 4AD | |||
| Producer | Paul Mahern, Lisa Germano, Bill Bottrell | |||
| Lisa Germano chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [2] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [3] |
Excerpts from a Love Circus is an album by the American musician Lisa Germano, [4] [5] released in 1996 by 4AD. [6]
Three of the album's tracks contain interludes which feature home recordings of two of Germano's cats, Dorothy and Miamo-Tutti. Contrary to the track listing shown on the album's packaging, "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" actually appears during the first seventeen seconds of track 3. "Just a Bad Dream" begins at the 4:19 mark of track 6, and "There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" takes up roughly the last minute of track 11.
The track "Small Heads" was released as a single in the United Kingdom in August 1996, just prior to the album. Around the same time, Germano recorded an album with the members of Giant Sand under the name OP8; although originally commissioned by 4AD, the label passed on the album ( Slush ), which led to its release on Thirsty Ear Recordings in February 1997. [7]
Another Germano collaboration was released later that year when the Excerpts track "Lovesick" was remixed by drum & bass producer The Underdog (aka Trevor Jackson, later of Playgroup), and released as a single on his Output Recordings label.[ citation needed ]
A later edition of Excerpts was re-released by 4AD in 1999, and contains tracks 2-4 from the "Small Heads" single added as bonus tracks, but have been removed for subsequent editions. [8] The song "Tom, Dick and Harry" was performed by Germano on the OP8 album Slush .[ citation needed ]
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Germano adds trembling violins to other aural oddities, like the plinking of a toy piano and the purring of her cat ... Those quirky elements help lighten the troubled lullabies." [2] The Tucson Weekly thought that "Germano's music is dreamy, with her haunting violin and keyboards coloring the drifty, mercurial arrangements." [9]
"Small Heads", "I Love A Snot" and "Lovesick" all received considerable airplay on College & Alternative radio in both the US and the UK.
All songs were written by Lisa Germano
Kenny Aronoff, Bill Bottrell, Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, John Strohm, Thor, Wyndham Wallace. (Individual credits were not listed.)
