Orchid Spangiafora Flee Past's Ape Elf 2LP Reissue with booklet 500 copies NWW
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Splendid, expanded reissue of this monster album, which most people know from its placement on the NWW List. Stapleton even went so far as to name a track of his ("Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree") after a mis-hearing of one of Flee Past's' many memorable lines. The music has its roots in Hampshire College's Electronic Music Studio in the early 1970s. While taking a class on electronic composition, Robert Carey was smitten by the potentialities lurking inside piles of reel-to-reel tape. Presented with a stack of such stuff, mostly recorded from television broadcasts, he began an epic stumble into the universe of musique concrète. Carey refashioned banal spoken material into bizarre, hilarious and shockingly musical suites that you could listen to for sheer yucks or revelatory juxtapositions. Influenced by Gysin/Burroughs/Somerville's cut-up techniques, as much as Zappa's 1960s editing flair, Carey (rechristened Orchid Spangiafora by some wise-ass music professors) created new savage aural realities that you could almost dance to. The original album was released by Twin/Tone Records in 1979, at the behest of the Suicide Commandos' Chris Osgood (who'd been Carey's roommate at Hamsphire). It didn't make too much of a splash, but managed to sneak into a lot of important ears nonetheless. And it remains one of the few records that I can put on in the 21st century and still have people ask, "What the hell is that?" Now you can do the same. Edition of 500 copies. This is an authorized copy released by feeding tube records.
Track Listing: Disc 1 Side A 01. Dime Operation 08:21 02. A Short Piece 00:21
03. Sput 02:19 04. Flee Pasts Ape Elf 02:07 05. Mondo Stupid 04:11 06. Hold Everything 02:33
Side B 07. Sheer Madness 07:47 08. Some Crust 04:52 09. Coarse Fish 04:39 10. Trapped Heir Suite Part 2 02:14 11. Persistence of Fred MacMurray 01:26 Disc 2 Side C 01. Intro 00:03
02. Asafoetida 14:07
Side D 03. Gulf 02:18
04. Distiller 00:54 l 05. Summertime 06:53
06. Second Hand Smoke 09:03
- Feeding Tube Records presents an expanded 2LP reissue of the obscure audio collage/musique concrète tape experiments of Robert Carey aka Orchid Spangiafora.
- Spawned from Hampshire College's Electronic Music Studio in the early '70s and originally released in 1979 on Twin/Tone Records.
- Has a spot on the Nurse With Wound List.
- Quotes on jacket by members of DEVO, Pere Ubu, Nurse With Wound, New Blockaders, Monitor, Negativland, Severed Heads, Morphogenesis & Steve Fisk.
- Edition of 500 copies.
- "Brilliant, obsessive, hilarious spoken word-tape-cut-up-hell of the highest order." --WFMU
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