TITLE: DreamCumGoDown
ARTIST: Juliana Luecking
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DESCRIPTION: Performance artist Juliana Luecking interviews women in NYC clubs, on the streets of San Francisco, and in the woods at the Michigan Women's Festival. The interviewees are street-smart, sex-radical, and fetish-happy. The result: a ground-breaking documentary, an artistic and unbelieveably candid look at lesbian sex that boasts absolute authenticity.

ARTISTCOMMENTS: People seem to love this CD. Maybe for the first time ever, a diverse group of women in the U.S. describe their lesbian sex fantasies and lesbian sex realities. Documenting with an audio recorder made sense and seemed to encourage an extraordinary freedom of expression. My interview questions were very blunt, and the variety of answers are honest, animated, and sometimes surreal.

REVIEW: Juliana Luecking asks three questions (What's your favorite fantasy? What makes you come? and How do you go down on a woman?) of lesbians across the country. Individually-recorded women insouciantly regale the listener with fantasies and schemes of every order--raunchy, silly, prurient, precious, safe, danger-ous and altogether lavish. If you've thought it, they speak it. Apparently Ms. Luecking possesses an impressive gift of felicity as most of the respondents glibly offer up their innermoist enthusiasms in spontaneous, titillating detail. Neatly edited, ambient sounds from the various interview locations embellish the experience with rich slice of life detail that further affords repeated listening. Classy packaging including photos depicting lesbians of yore, coupled with a glossary defining the sex-speak on the record, complete the experience. Proceeds go to lesbian community health projects. Stimulating. -Chesley H., Sound Views, Spring 1996.

REVIEW: Don't be fooled by the simplicity of Juliana Luecking's concept for this intriguing CD.

The results of her quest are no less than fascinating, mainly because of the sheer diversity of the 70-odd respondents'. DreamCumGoDown is, in fact, a roller coaster ride through the universe of lesbian desire.

Best of all, this record never once comes off as clinical. Luecking chose the perfect medium: audio offers all of her subjects complete anonymity (they make up wonderful pseudonyms for themselves, such as "Moondancer" or "Black Box of Love") and the opportunity for total, if not always comfortable, honesty. The best respondents get audibly turned on by their discourse--and the effect is contagious. Warning: Don't listen to DreamCumGoDown without some means for your own sexual enjoyment. My partner and I nearly forgot about the housemates and dreamcumwentdown right there on the living room floor. (Heather Findlay, Girlfriends, March/April 1996)

REVIEW: I'm not quite sure what to make of this--part spoken word, part extension of those audio sex compilations, part fantasy. I know this much--it's hella intense, incredibly erotic, and offers insight into human sexuality. One thing that comes across on this disc is exactly how much AIDS and HIV have changed the face of sex as we know it. On what is perhaps the most poignant track, one woman talks about safe sex and how someone asking to be unsafe with their partner can be sexy. But what comes across, equally as poignantly, is that it's more dangerous than it is sexy. Great record. -Sick No More, March 1996.

REVIEW: This is a new CD out on Kill Rockstars and it is definitely unlike anything I have ever heard recorded before. It's 55 minutes of nothing but interviews about lesbian sex. Women answer these three questions: What's your favorite sex fantasy? / What makes you cum? / How do you go down on a woman? The overall effect results in something that is so hilarious, so passionate, so sexy, so wow! Velvet Grass, #9, May 1996.

REVIEW: An hour's worth of "woman in the street" interviews, so to speak, about lesbian sex. Interviewer Juliana Luecking asks all participants about their favorite sex fantasy, what makes them cum and how they go down on a woman. The responses run from the conventional to the kinky, as expected. An interesting documentary, for the curious. Speaking as a hetero male, something feels voyeuristic about it. - Suburban Voice, #38, March 1996.

REVIEW: ROCKIN'! Juliana Luecking interviews 50 women on these 3 questions: "What's your favorite fantasy?," "What makes you cum?" and "How do you go down on a woman?" They're talkin' lesbo sex! And it's no holds barred from San Francisco to NYC. It's really sexy because everyone interviewed is totally frank and very imaginative. "The cover's cute--it's 2 women who look like they're goin' at it. And lots of other historic looking lesbo pix, where the hell did they find these? Anyways, this is a good icebreaker at parties. - Bamboo Girl, #3, March 1996.