Shriekback - 80's - 90's demos official release VERY LIMITED
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:59 pmAct fast-- another release from the Shriekback Camp on a very limited run - they say may be sold by the weekend.
Includes an early mix of the classic "Fading Flowers" see info below
"The Island of the Hopeful Monsters"----- lost Shriekback demos from the 80′s & 90′s
TRACKLIST
from Big Night Music
Black Light Trap demo
Death, Sex and Money
Fine Minds (soon to be Running on the Rocks)
Pretty Little Things demo
Guiness Despair
from Oil & Gold
Faded Flowers (excerpt)
from Go Bang
New Man demo
Got Heat
Over the Wire demo
Purified
from Naked Apes & Pond Life
(and also the aborted Lunar Seas album)
Seething (Sinus Aestuum)
Juice (Mare Nectarum)
Sea of Vapours (Mare Vaporum)
and introducing THE FLESH BEACONS (Andrews, Barker, Lu Edmonds and Marvin Black)
Shake the Big Tree
Goodbye My Monkey
We adapted our title from a fictitious book by Kilgore Trout - Kurt Vonnegut’s alter ego - in which, after an ecological cataclysm, the forces of evolution create mutations which might stand a better chance of survival in the new conditions:
‘..the humanoids found themselves the parents of children with wings or antlers or fins, with a hundred eyes, with no eyes, with huge brains, with no brains, and on and on.
These were Nature’s experiments with creatures which might, as a matter of luck, be better planetary citizens than the humanoids. Most died, or had to be shot or whatever, but a few were really quite promsing and they intermarried and had young like themselves.’ (’Galapagos’)
The tunes on this album of demos (from roughly ’86 to ’96) are all of them experiments; all in development.
Some, like Black Light Trap and Over the Wire have gone on to have successful futures upon internationally released albums: here you can hear them three-quarters formed as we groped towards their ideal shape.
Others were immediately abandoned and have languished for years on cassette tapes to eventually emerge, still-born, in the museum of this collection. Some of them, in our opinion, were perfectly acceptable but fell victims to adverse circumstance. There is a lot of luck in Natural Selection, after all.
To all of them, though, we owe our parental allegiance. They all must have seemed like a good idea at the time
Once they were all Hopeful.
(All the tracks are taken from cassettes, hyped by technology as much as we dared. Hiss and holes are deliberate - being the lesser of evils)
http://shriekbackmusic.tumblr.com/
Order here
http://www.shriekback.com/store
Includes an early mix of the classic "Fading Flowers" see info below
"The Island of the Hopeful Monsters"----- lost Shriekback demos from the 80′s & 90′s
TRACKLIST
from Big Night Music
Black Light Trap demo
Death, Sex and Money
Fine Minds (soon to be Running on the Rocks)
Pretty Little Things demo
Guiness Despair
from Oil & Gold
Faded Flowers (excerpt)
from Go Bang
New Man demo
Got Heat
Over the Wire demo
Purified
from Naked Apes & Pond Life
(and also the aborted Lunar Seas album)
Seething (Sinus Aestuum)
Juice (Mare Nectarum)
Sea of Vapours (Mare Vaporum)
and introducing THE FLESH BEACONS (Andrews, Barker, Lu Edmonds and Marvin Black)
Shake the Big Tree
Goodbye My Monkey
We adapted our title from a fictitious book by Kilgore Trout - Kurt Vonnegut’s alter ego - in which, after an ecological cataclysm, the forces of evolution create mutations which might stand a better chance of survival in the new conditions:
‘..the humanoids found themselves the parents of children with wings or antlers or fins, with a hundred eyes, with no eyes, with huge brains, with no brains, and on and on.
These were Nature’s experiments with creatures which might, as a matter of luck, be better planetary citizens than the humanoids. Most died, or had to be shot or whatever, but a few were really quite promsing and they intermarried and had young like themselves.’ (’Galapagos’)
The tunes on this album of demos (from roughly ’86 to ’96) are all of them experiments; all in development.
Some, like Black Light Trap and Over the Wire have gone on to have successful futures upon internationally released albums: here you can hear them three-quarters formed as we groped towards their ideal shape.
Others were immediately abandoned and have languished for years on cassette tapes to eventually emerge, still-born, in the museum of this collection. Some of them, in our opinion, were perfectly acceptable but fell victims to adverse circumstance. There is a lot of luck in Natural Selection, after all.
To all of them, though, we owe our parental allegiance. They all must have seemed like a good idea at the time
Once they were all Hopeful.
(All the tracks are taken from cassettes, hyped by technology as much as we dared. Hiss and holes are deliberate - being the lesser of evils)
http://shriekbackmusic.tumblr.com/
Order here
http://www.shriekback.com/store
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