fowl records. phouwle 003 / 13 tracks / 1982

1000 made (officially confirmed by a band member). Handmade sleeves, all are different. Mine has a hole cover w/ Polydor logo, 2 insert sheets, stickers. Some copies come with feathers, first copies are rumoured to come with a worm in a bag. One of the band members ended up in Berlin and continued to do electronic avantgarde music as “Das Verkannte Modul”.

Art punk from San Francisco, somewhere between Flipper (slow, dragging, noisy guitars) and German wave stuff from the early 80s (electronic effects, synths). What really sets this apart from all the other art bands of that era is that they really had a sick sense of humor (check out the song titles…) which made them instant enemies of the MRR crew. No nazi crap, though, even in their darkest, silliest moments you can tell that they were trying to be annoying rather than trying to spread right-wing messages. Strange stuff. [7]

Völlig seltsam, das Ding. Keine Angaben zur Band, sollen aber aus dem Weirdos-Umfeld kommen. Nicht im geringsten punkig, auch wenn man die roots teilweise raushört, sondern langsam und krachig-experimentell, mit vielen Soundcollagen; interessant, weil unberechenbar. Strapazierfähiger Humor ist auch nötig, alle ’alternativen’ heiligen Kühe werden geschlachtet. Ich find’s zum Teil grob daneben, regt aber zum Nachdenken an. Sehr fremd! (HG)

Tracks: undancing in the dirt / next step / i should have let ’em die / hometown vigilante / zebra killers / you can have it // dull peoples rights ok / burn the welcome mat / neo hippies / kill them / aufwiedersehn juden / karen ann / too stupid to die