{"product_id":"steve-suzanne-ciani-out-of-the-closet-12-inch","title":"Steve (Suzanne Ciani) - Out Of The Closet 12\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDark Entries helps Suzanne Ciani come out of the closet as Steve! Legendary composer, sound designer, and Buchla maestra Suzanne Ciani has a staggering list of accolades and accomplishments, from scoring Hollywood films to releasing influential new age records to literally designing the Coca-Cola bottle-opening sound. In the late 70s\/early 80s, Ciani, while living in New York, acquired an Eventide H 949 harmonizer, which offered high fidelity pitch-shifting. In her words, \"When I adjusted the pitch of my voice to 0.80, my natural voice became re-invented as what was clearly a gay man, who I called Steve. I became Steve; and Steve expressed himself as only he could.\" Ciani adopted the male persona and collaborated with Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream on \"Steve Goes to a Party.\" The track features Ciani-as-Steve ad-libbing in decadent and delirious fashion alongside Baumann's robotically funky beats. Steve would emerge again a few years later at George Louvis's Stardust Studios in New Jersey, to create \"Steve Saves the World,\" an absurdist and ecstatic proto-house groover complete with a gospel-esque chorus from the Stardust All-Stars. This EP is rounded out by a birthday wish to Ciani's then-boyfriend Alfred on \"Steve Happy Birthday Wishes\" featuring Suzanne. Steve's \u003cem\u003eOut of the Closet\u003c\/em\u003e perfectly captures the delirious techno-poptimism of the 1980s downtown avant-garde, with parallels in Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives or Lynn Goldsmith's project Will Powers, responsible for the track \"Adventures in Success.\" The Steve sleeve was designed by Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh, and the record also includes a birthday card with liner notes from Ciani.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dark Entries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600130343209,"sku":"DE352","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/6532\/files\/steve-suzanne-ciani-out-of-the-closet-12-inch.jpg?v=1791576575","url":"https:\/\/www.strandedrecords.com\/products\/steve-suzanne-ciani-out-of-the-closet-12-inch","provider":"Stranded Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}