exquisite corpse records. 7pv45660 / 4 tracks / 1979

RI: exquisite corpse / monster wax. 79-167 / 2 tracks / 1979

+ lyric sheet. Original runs on 33, reissue on 45. Feat. Mark Wheaton (keyboards) who was later in Johanna Went. Both 7”s + bonus songs rereleased on a s/t discography CD on Exquisite Corpse (poems are missing, though).

Experimental sounds from Seattle. A side has art punk with keyboards & guitars; didn’t do much for me at first, but it’s actually pretty good – the female singer is really excellent and aggressive. The first pressing has two additional tracks on the B side where the singer reads her poems, accompanied by (acoustic) bass; the second version omits these tracks. [7]

Experimental-Stoff aus Seattle. Artpunk mit Keyboards und kaum verzerrten Gitarren; trotzdem hat das durch die coole, aggressive Sängerin eine ganz besondere Power. Die erste Version hat dann auf der B-Seite eine Art Dichterlesung der Sängerin, dazu gibt’s sparsamen (Akustik-)Baßeinsatz. Muss man sicherlich mehrfach hören, aber inzwischen gefällt mir das ganz gut.

Tracks: peasant/slave / lover/lover // the alternative vision of the snake in the sun / disease