Anyone approaching this album unawares needs to be warned that its playing time of 36′ 34″ is divided into sixty nine tracks ranging in length from six seconds to a minute and 41 seconds, and that the tracks are labelled as Roman numerals from one to 69 with 10 of the track titles being extended by dedications to unidentified individuals (for example, “XXXIV to Sisa Wandeler”). For anyone keen to know more, the track titles are printed on the rear sleeve. Given the album’s release day, this is not an elaborate joke…
The clue to this mystery is in big blue letters on the front of this album sleeve — “Yet Dish” “Gertrude Stein.” Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Gertrude Stein was a renowned American novelist, poet and playwright who moved to Paris…

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