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The Rita \u200e\u2013 Sharks and the Female Form \/ Tight Fitting Armor<\/strong>
Label: Old Europa Cafe \u200e\u2013 OECD 305
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Remastered
Country: Italy
Released: 2022
Style: Harsh Noise Wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This CD is the re-edition of:
\u00a7 \u00abSharks and the Female Form\u00bb first out in 2018 on OEC as a Music-Cassette limited to 39 hand-numbered copies including a load of A5 inserts.
Cassette was re-edited in 2019 in a standard case limited to 100 copies
\u00a7 \u00abTight Fitting Armor\u00bb out in 2016 as music-Cassette together with a 12″ lathe cut limited to 23 hand-numbered copies.
No need to spend much words about the muzak: what you hear is the HARSH NOISE WALL for which THE RITA is very well known!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frontfront cover is a drawing by Japanese artist ZUKK.
Zukk design combines in a single image the imagery used for the covers of the two original cassettes.
All art in the other digipak pannels taken and re-worked from original Cassettes art-works.
But what was behind those recordings? >>>
Sharks and the Female Form
The aesthetics and patterns of a woman\u2019s physical form violently and tragically manipulated in the arts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Painting
\u201cYou have dared to torture the female who was so certain he would always be adored! You have scourged her, flogged her in all her pride; you have emptied her breasts, creviced her belly, blown up her buttocks, twisted her legs, battered her face! And over it all you have spread a noxious color, composed of all the reds of blood and the greens of putrefaction.\u201d
Coquiot on Rouault\u2019s painting Two Prostitutes (1906)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinema
\u201cThe verbal link between gorge (throat, bosom, breast) and egorger (to cut the throat, to slaughter) implies that the two inevitably go together: to see a breast is to want to cut a throat.\u201d
Colin Davis from Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film and Philosophy (2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literature
\u201cThe great conical head struck her like a locomotive, knocking her up out of the water. The jaws snapped shut around her torso, crushing bones and flesh and organs into a jelly. The fish, with the woman\u2019s body in it\u2019s mouth, smashed down on the water with a thunderous splash, spewing foam and blood and phosphorescence in a gaudy shower.\u201d
Peter Benchley from Jaws (1974)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tight Fitting Armor
\u201cJeanne went armed in white iron, entirely from head to foot.\u201d Moreover, Guy and Andr\u00e9 de Laval saw her on horseback near Romorantin \u201carmed entirely in white, except, for the head, a little ax in her hand, seated on a great black courser.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accounts of the treasurer H\u00e9mon Reguier refer to the purchase of that suit of armor in April 1429: \u201c100 livres tournois were paid and delivered by the aforesaid treasure to the master armorer for a complete harness for the aforesaid Maid.\u201d With this harness, Jeanne was equipped in the same fashion as the men-of-arms of her era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Chartier reported that she was \u201carmed as quickly as possible with a complete harness such as would have suited a knight who was part of the arma and born in the king\u2019s court. \u201cShe was equipped, moreover, like knights of a certain rank: 100 livres tournois was a significant sum.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Diary of a Chambermaid)
\u00abProduction and costume designer Georges Wakhevitch does an excellent job with the look of the film in creating a posh yet early 20th Century look to the home as well as the clothes the people wear. Notably the maid dress and stockings that Celestine wears to woo some of the men in the film.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab…a woman (future porn star Kelly Nichols making her d\u00e9but here) masturbates in the bath, before chasing her round her apartment; firing at her nude body with a nailgun. However, even here \u2013 despite the sensationalist subject matter \u2013 Donnelly handles the action listlessly, as if he’s ticking murders off from a shopping list. It’s sleazy but determinedly suspense free. The juxtaposing of sugary sweet country and soft rock songs with the violence could have been potent, but really only adds to the flatness.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracklist:
\u00a7 SHARKS AND THE FEMALE FORM
1. Untitled
2. Untitled
\u00a7 TIGHT FITTING ARMOR (DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID)
3. Tight Fitting Armor (Diary of a Chambermaid) 1
4. Tight Fitting Armor (Diary of a Chambermaid) 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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