SLAPP HAPPY CASABLANCA MOON/DESPERATE STRAIGHTS 74 & 75 lp's on 1993 CD
VIRGIN CDOVD 441
COND: Jewel case, inners and CD all excellent to nr mint!!
TRACKS:
| 1. Casablanca Moon |
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| 2. Me And Paravati |
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| 3. Half Way There |
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| 4. Michelangelo |
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| 5. Dawn |
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| 6. Mr Rainbow |
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| 7. Secret |
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| 8. Little Something |
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| 9. Drum |
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| 10. Haiku |
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| 11. Slow Moon's Rose |
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| 12. Some Questions About Hats |
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| 13. Owl |
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| 14. Worm Is At Work |
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| 15. Bad Alchemy |
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| 16. Europa |
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| 17. Desperate Straights |
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| 18. Riding Tigers |
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| 19. Apes In Capes |
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| 20. Strayed |
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| 21. Giants |
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| 22. Extracts From The Messiah |
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| 23. In The Sickbay |
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| 24. Caucasian Lullaby |
I doubt here has ever been any other music like this. This CD covers two consecutive releases by Slapp Happy - the first, Casablanca Moon, is a mystical and wonderful journey through an intellectually barbed landscape, peopled by dissolute dilletantes and littered with knowingly arch puns and references; the second, Desperate Straights, is entirely dissimilar, being a collaboration with Henry Cow, everyone's agit-pop heroes of the seventies. Desperate Straights (THAT'S A PUN, BY THE WAY) takes the fragile lyrical constructions and musically brutalises them occasionally to telling effect, but often resulting in ghastly mutilations (whatever you do, don't listen to Caucasian Lullaby!!). But it's on Casablanca Moon that all the charm an musicality of the band is shown to best effect. The opener 'Casablanca Moon' is a sleazy minor key waltz reeking of seamy ill-doings and the mental collapse of a hapless double agent, no doubt in an Algerian Casbah - and who these days writes lyrics like 'lines of sweat like tinsel/ start to smart his eyes' - genius. 'Mr Rainbow' is a tribute to Arthur Rimbaud, which features a verse as delictae and beautiful as the chorus is grating and awful. The music on CM overall is characterised by a deft naivete - it's populist, but not as we know it. It's unerringly lovely, and the closer, 'Slow Moon's Rose', is a beautiful lullably - or pastiche of one - which draws the listener into a glittering, arctic world of frozen rivers and silver trellises.
But there are gems a-plenty throughout this CD; Desperate Straights also is not without its moments, but it's too diverse to summarise easily.
Buy this CD - find out why Les Singes ne pensent que s'amuser - and baffle your friends with pointless arty references for months to come.
But DON'T listen to Caucasian Lullably. You've been warned!!!
ENJOY!!!
MANY APOLOGIES: Due to a postal increase of 10% (07/04/08) and a 3% cost increase in the mailers I use then I have had to slightly raise post and packing charges.
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