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01. The Bonaparte'S - The Battle Of Iena
02. The Bonaparte'S - Waterloo's Front
03. The Bonaparte'S - Shiny Light
04. The Bonaparte'S - Women In Light
05. The Bonaparte'S - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha! Haaa!
06. The Bonaparte'S - The Battle Of Iena (Instrumental Mix)
07. The Bonaparte'S - The Battle Of Iena (Ethereal Mix)
08. The Bonaparte'S - Waterloo's Front (Instrumental Mix)
09. The Bonaparte'S - Women In Light (Rough Mix)
10. The Bonaparte'S - Women In Light (Instrumental Mix)
11. The Bonaparte'S - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha! Haaa! (Rough Mix)
ARTIST
TITLE
Shiny Battles
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ROTOR 063CD ROTOR 063CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/29/2022

Rotorelief present an expanded reissue of Shiny Battles by The Bonaparte's, originally released in 1985. The Bonaparte's trio was born after the split of two bands, Kan Ji Zai founded by Pat Griffiths from 23 Skidoo, Ruben Azca, and Baroque Bordello. According to Giri, the boss of the Gibus, the punk public usually became agitated sitting very attentively at the Kan Ji Zai gig on October 4th, 1983. In 1984 after their first record the EP Today, the drummer Prad and the bass player Pix from Baroque Bordello founded together, along with Ruben Azca from Kan Ji Zai, the band The Bonaparte's, initially to be ephemeral for a gig that should have been unique at the Opéra Night programmed by La Sébale with three tracks: "Battle Of Iena", "Waterloo's Front", and "Shiny Light" played in one single sequence. The trio was extended with a guest saxophone player Lazslo. The audience didn't expect such a band and was very surprised, encouraging the band to go on. And that's what they did, two of the members of Baroque Bordello were asked to leave the band and Pat Griffiths joined them. The Bonaparte's were born. Shiny Battles was created a first mini-album in the Studio Garage in 1985. This mini-LP is a marvel as it associates the pure tradition of the French coldwave bands adoring the bass with high-level British artistic quality influenced by the best of the post-punk scene: The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees -- The audio reissue by Rotorelief proposes the mini-album Shiny Battles with six unreleased bonus tracks. In 1985. The first mini-album Shiny Battle in the Studio Garage. This mini-album is a marvel as it associates the pure tradition of the French cold wave bands adoring the bass with the high level British artistic quality influenced by the best of the post-punk scene: The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees. Regular CD with deluxe DVD style packaging. Includes six unreleased bonus, instrumental versions.