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A note here from J.Me - I am the credited engineer, co-arranger, producer, keyboards, some backing vox and mixer, and now apart from some of the other backing vox performers and Ermano, the only survivor. The cute story is of course not right. Barney started this project as a love-hate offering to the music industry. All but the Calvert song were recorded at my studio Phoenix recording in Chalton St. Euston (not the Phoenix mentioned in other material, that's a different studio). Barney did indeed have a tape with all the original songs, but these were not recreated after one listen. Some of them we all knew, most were at least slightly familiar. What we did was take the songs and utterly destroy the straight arrangement - making an Ersatz copy. For example, in one song we had Trevor fingering the bass while Ermano played the rhythm with sticks ;) We got the local blacksmith to give us an angle-grinder solo for Crusher. We had Ermano solo on a cast-iron fence, in location recording. Talk about “musique concrete”. Apart from writing and performing all keyboard parts and some vocals, my job was to destroy the conventions further in a musical way, contradicting normal production, and all of this production and mixing was done by Barney and me alone, as he didn't want any "musical" input from the guys to make it pretty at all. The original Calvert track was much too “straight” and pretty -- but we fixed that. Barney had no idea of musical production, but he had a very clear idea of when it arrived where he wanted it to be. He by then cordially detested the music industry, while loving the music and many of the people therein. Of course the contradictions and the issues with the industry (mostly money) caused him to kill himself shortly after the album was released, so despite an Old Grey Whistle test approval, none of us ever got paid a penny for the work (the studio got paid mostly, I had to top up with free time to finish it). The record company of course wanted a single, and we started work on that, reluctantly, but then Barney left us and to say that was a shock is a huge understatement, it was devastating at the time. What is Ersatz? "being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation": Merriam-Webster. And that's the music industry for you, as seen in this album anyway... I still have the master safe copies (and a rather solid lien) and am considering releasing an Atmos version (joke). (FWIW I was also the original keyboards in Steve Took's Horns - before it had a name, and did a disastrous gig with ICU on keys once). I am proud of this album and the magnificent if bizarre musicianship on show. Listeners need a GSOH. Only Ermano (and Margo) are still around to confirm any of this of course, with the death of Trevor years ago and Nik recently... Also, King Bee (nd on?) here is not our version, haven't checked them all.

Time-Lag Records were so good!

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Потрясающая музыка

Taking a deep breath 😮

I ve been at an dij concert in france at the time douglas were with albin...same atmosphere. Rice was there too. We spend a lot of good times together . My best souvenir. Boyd was more funny than i was expecting it. Good friendship with our past friend Julius. Douglas left us soon with a fresh young boy. No words with him sadly. But...boyd and albin together in the same room...Hahaha. marvellous

Best album of all centuries

6:30 Death grips type sample

This album is sooo good. Track 6 is a masterpiece.

Jandek is simply brilliant.

Шикарный посмертный альбом Маэстро. Спасибо В. Гайворонскому, что все-таки в своё время довел до конца эту работу. Отдельное Спасибо выложившему этот альбом здесь.

I played the fuck out of this !!!!

Anyone's got lyrics for mutant baby?

Had this album once on my old hard disk until it got shredded in an accident. Does anybody have an idea where I can find and download it in reasonable quality?..

cheaper and more effective than therapy. a gift that keeps on giving. thanks, Mr. Drumm.

Я помню, мне дали послушать в оо годы.. Много всего послушал.. Дима Батян давал

Хороший он Фомин....

thanks a ton for the full album

musica de verdad

why is this album not available where his discography is otherwise streaming?? i love his work very much

классика нойза

Верните Обнинску оригинальный герб

А что случилось?

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

This is really good. The vocalist reminds me of Dagmar Krause.

increible!!

WILDLY INVENTIVE.

👍🏿Thx

. Жаль, что без наушников ни черта не слвшно

Particulier en effet, mais pas inintéressant, merci Lô 😘👍🎸

2024

love it!!

думаю что название горящий сидней это отсылка на зазеркалье (рим стоит)

кто здесь после подкаста с техником?

Merci d'avoir posté l'album en entier !!

33:01 Residents!!😮❤

29:39 WHOA! I COULD EASILY BELIEVE THIS IS(WAS) THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS 😮❤❤

Fucking nuts!!!! GOD BLESS NIK❤❤❤❤

Un tel iconoclasme, une telle grandeur, un tel improbable paysage cosmique plein de ténèbres, de lumière, de peur et d’émerveillement et surtout de mystère, avec des déflagrations qui vous plongent dans une transe suivie de changements soudains qui vous réveillent, les yeux écarquillés et les sourcils frissonnants. J'écoute cela de temps en temps depuis des lustres et j'entends encore de nouvelles subtilités 🔥

Ничего себе прикол

So brilliant - so glad I discovered more of their work here. Thank you for sharing. Love to see the film.

Holy crap THANK YOU! I've been waiting for this to show up online for years. I have the vinyl. I'm a SRB addict so it's nice that I can finally listen to this on my phone and such.

Thank you very much for uploading the full album! :)

Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍

흑우될뻔

Dont ben fun ça!

Fella's!

It's a shame that their discography is so expensive, I'd love to get these records on vinyl