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    Penny Rimbaud’s L’Académie Des Vanités ‎– Yes Sir, The Truth Of Revolution

    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR223CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 27 Jun 2016
    Style: Punk, Experimental, Avantgarde, Art Rock

    CRASS WAS THEN – THIS IS NOW. WAKE UP TO IT

    CRASS’ album, ‘Yes, Sir, I Will’, was possibly the most angry and hard hitting attack on the political/military/industrial complex ever consigned to vinyl. Written by Penny Rimbaud in 1982 at the height of the Falklands conflict, it seethes with righteous indignation over what he saw as a pointless but vicious exercise in vote catching by a government whose popularity was severely on the wane. So powerful was this critique that it led to threats of prosecution by that very same government, threats which were typically used by CRASS to further their attacks on it and its tyrannical leader, Margaret Thatcher.

    Over thirty years later, in 2014, Rimbaud was asked to participate in the Rebellion Festival, a yearly punk gathering held in Blackpool, UK. Realising that the opening date of the festival closely coincided with that of the euphemistically named ‘Great War’, Rimbaud and the festival organisers agreed that as an appropriate response they should open the event with a performance of ‘Yes, Sir, I Will’.

    In preparing for this performance, Rimbaud began to question the relevance of some of the content of ‘Yes, Sir’. It seemed to him that much of it was pertinent only to the time in which it was written, a time when a genuine social uprising had appeared to be a very real possibility (one that was violently and conclusively squashed during the miners’ strike of 1984). But times change and there was, he now felt, an element of aggression within the work which veiled its essential message of love and peace; it was a passion that could all too easily be mistaken for blind anger. With this in mind, and inspired by John Lennon’s ‘All You Need is Love’, he set about rewriting ‘Yes, Sir’ from what he describes as a more Taoist viewpoint. Through replacing screams of anguish with laments of love, he was largely able to satisfy his wish to change ‘Yes, Sir’ into an expression of compassion, that being the hugely demanding realm of love in its unconditional form.

    For the Rebellion performance of the now retitled ‘Yes, Sir, the Truth of Revolution’, Rimbaud was joined by CRASS’ lead vocalist Eve Libertine plus a group of leading musicians from the London jazz scene with whom they’d worked extensively in the past. Named ‘L’Académie des Vanités’, the band consisted of Eve Libertine/vocals, Penny Rimbaud/vocals, Louise Elliott/sax, Kate Shortt/cello, Jennifer Maidman/guitar, Phil Robson/guitar, Thad Kelly/bass and Gene Calderazzo/drums. The live recording of that show, presented here, captures all the tense excitement created by presenting a primarily punk audience with complex poetics of love, accompanied by equally demanding freeform, improvised jazz. However, as had generally been the case with CRASS’ output, wild, willing and worrisome, it would be wise to expect the unexpected. Equally, through its progressive and colourful imagery, the vibrant packaging designed by Gee Vaucher shows a refusal to harp back to the illusory golden past of punk dreams and conceits.

    ‘We are poets, armed with the cobblestones of love, unconditional, uncompromising, beyond need of proof.’ However, if proof is needed, it will most surely be found in the content of this radical, imaginative release

    Buy:14 €http://www.gh-records.com/1298-penny-rimbauds-lacademie-des-vanites-yes-sir-the-truth-of-revolution.html

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    Looking for Europe – The Neofolk Compendium



    Various Artists – Looking for Europe – The Neofolk Compendium

    Label: Index Verlag
    Format: 4 × CD, Compilation, Reissue
    Country: Germany
    Released: 03 Aug 2007
    Style: Pop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental 

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    Compilation released in tandem with the same-titled book

    In tandem with the book “Looking For Europe”, we released this 4-CD compilation featuring artists such as Scott Walker, Nico, Death In June, The Strawbs, Sol Invictus, Laibach, Test Department, Fire + Ice, Blood Axis, Genesis P. Orridge, Changes, Ordo Equitum Solis, Empyrium, Hagalaz’ Runedance, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, The Royal Family And The Poor feat. Peter Hook (New Order, Joy Division), Der Blutharsch, Allerseelen, Tenhi, Boyd Rice, Kirlian Camera, Paul Giovanni/Magnet, Orplid, Ataraxia, Ernte, SiebenPop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental , and many more. 

  • GH Records

    Qa’a – Chi’en
    Label: Màgia Roja – MR-002
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Spain
    Released: 21 Nov 2009
    Style: Noise, Free Jazz, Krautrock, Dub, Avantgarde, Psychedelic Rock

    Chi’en is an 80 minute long psychedelic trip that feels like a single unity moving forward. In this second album by Qa’a almost all the musical threads of the band are deepened; It’s more hypnotic and repetitive, noisier and more dissonant, somewhat more abstract and at the same time more folk although there are less ambient/drone/free jazz parts than in Vesprada. It’s a record of extremes, from nude moments to walls of dissonance and harrowing noise with a psychedelic production that has tons of layers, sounds and instruments thrown in for good measure. Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust, a professed fan, aided the band to mix and master the album.

    Produced by: Víctor Hurtado
    Producer/sound engineer: Zlaya Hadzhich
    Sound engineer: Pedri González
    Mixing: Andreas Schmid
    Editing: Víctor Hurtado
    Executive producer: Hans Joachim Irmler
    Mixed and mastered at: Faust Studio
    Recorded between 2008-2009

    Buy: 8 € http://www.gh-records.com/974-qa-a-chi-en.html

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