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Music soundtrack to the intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.
Featuring music by Psychic TV, Thee Majesty and his other collaborations. Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of “industrial music”, his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand the boundaries of live performance have radically altered the way people experience sound in a concert setting. But that’s just the preamble to the story. Defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology.
In 2000, Genesis began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer), who remained his other half and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion, and Genesis’s most risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to date: he became a she in a triumphant act of artistic self-expression. Genesis called this project “Creating the Pandrogyne”. Influenced, like so much of Genesis work, by Brion Gysin and William Burroughs Cut Ups , it was an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third.
This is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love and art. Marie Losier brings to us the most intimate details of Genesis’s extraordinary, uncanny world. In warm and intimate images captured handheld, Losier crafts a labyrinthine mise-en-scene of interviews, home movies, and performance footage. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye documents a truly new brand of Romantic consciousness, one in defiance of the daily dehumanization of the body by the pervasive presence of advertising and pornography, conveying beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective never before seen on film.
Track Listing
1. Coucou
2. I Love You, I Know - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lady J, Bryin Dall & Alice Genese
3. BB - Psychic TV/PTV3
4. I Am Making A Mirror - Psychic TV/PTV3
5. Milk Baba (Edit) - Psychic TV/PTV3
6. Maybe it Smells Good . . . or Bad - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Bryin Dall
7. Boys are Girls and Girls are Boys - Psychic TV/PTV3
8. The Truth - Thee Majesty
9. Wisdom - Thee Majesty
10. The Final War (Bleak Box Mix) - Lady Jaye & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Bryin Dall & Derek Rush
11. Soul Searching - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Derek Rush
12. White Nights - Psychic TV
13. Mother Jack (A Children’s Story) - Psychic TV
14. New York Story - Psychic TV/PTV3
15. Alien Brain (Edit) - Psychic TV/PTV3
16. Kiss Me (Maggot Brain) (Edit) - Psychic TV/PTV3
17. The Thin Garden - Psychic TV/PTV3
18. Demilitarized Ozone (Edit) - Tony Conrad, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Edley ODowd
19. The Orchids - Psychic TV
