“Conversation” is the opening track to virtuoso jazz mult-intrumentalist Rashaan Roland Kirk’s 26th album, an avant-garde double LP dubbed The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color.
This intro is a series of dialogues or monologues, depending on your interpretation, that attempts to recreate the...
[Unknown voice]
Rashaan Roland Kirk
I command you
To go
To sleep
And dream
[Rashaan Roland Kirk]
Oh, dream!
Oh, what am I going to dream about?
I haven't dreamt all I can dream in life
I'm trying to wake up and live
And make some money off some dreams that
That people been making money off my dreams
[Overlapping voices]
[Rashaan Roland Kirk]
No good
You know I ain't going to do nothing like that
I pull the plug out and then what's happened?
We are the ones that's been waking up the world!
You don't want me to go to sleep
Pull the plug out of you and you'd be dead
You talking to me?
I got a computer at home that's mean
Invented back in 1930-something
You know the piano, Rol?
You scared of that?
I went by somebody's house
A woman was making love to a computer
She didn't have no [?] either
Conversation was written by Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Conversation was produced by Joel Dorn.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk released Conversation on Wed May 14 1975.