CHAMBER MUSIC

THERE'S MUSIC ALONG THE RIVER..............

Mercury Rev, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth's Lee
Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, Mike Watt and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy are among
the acts that will contribute tracks to the "James Joyce Chamber Music
Project," due in April via Fire Records. Each artist was given one of
the 36 verses from James Joyce's 1907 poem "Chamber Music" and asked
to set it to music.

Also confirmed to appear are MONICA QUEEN,Mary Lorson, the Minus 5,
Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo
Pond, Bark Psychosis, Califone, Jessica Bailiff, Alan Licht, the Green
Pajamas, the Silent League and Wayne Kramer. The album will be
released as a double-disc set and on 12-inch vinyl.