The American Composers Box

The American Composers Box is an upcoming pREServed box set compilation by The Residents, compiling works recorded by the group for their unfinished American Composer Series, and other (primarily instrumental) compositions from the 1980s. The set is being "finalized" for release as of April 2023.
The American Composers Box is expected to include remastered and expanded editions of the albums George & James and Stars & Hank Forever, with additional contemporary material recorded for the unfinished series, and potentially at least one live recording from the group's 13th Anniversary tour. It will also collect the group's mid-1980s soundtrack work, as well as their longer instrumental compositions from the period."The idea is to bring together a lot of their own mid 80s work for TV and film, longer compositions like Fur Elsie and so on" - Richard Anderson, 2021
The box set had been mostly compiled and was originally earmarked for release around 2020, but was delayed due to rights issues surrounding one unspecified but "vital" element of the set."American Composers is more or less done and dusted too, but there's a vital missing piece of the jigsaw they're still trying to secure." - Richard Anderson, The Residents Facebook group, May 1st 2020 In November 2021, a representative of Cherry Red Records explained that the situation was both "really complicated" and also "only ever really a single email away from happening"."Yes, one day. On the one hand it's really complicated, on the other it's only ever really a single email away from happening. Watch this space." - Richard Anderson, commenting in The Residents unofficial Facebook group, November 10th 2021 
== Contents ==
To date, no track listing has been released by The Cryptic Corporation or Cherry Red Records, however, based on what can be assumed as well as information revealed by official sources, the set is likely to include the following material:
* George & James
* Stars & Hank Forever
* The White Single / "This Is A Man's Man's Man's World"
* "Hit The Road Jack"
* The "lost Sun Ra ACS side""Greetings Eyeball Fans!", Cherry Red Records Residents mailing list newsletter, April 28th 2023
* Material from the abandoned album Man
* "Daydream In Space"
*"Dear Brother"
*"Pictures Of Life's Other Side"
*"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
*The Census Taker
*Pee-wee's Playhouse soundtrack material
*For Elsie
== See also ==
* pREServed
* The American Composer Series
* George & James
* Stars & Hank Forever
* The 13th Anniversary Show
== External links and references ==
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Category:The American Composer Series
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