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01. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Dime Operation
02. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - A Short Piece
03. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Sput
04. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Flee Pasts Ape Elf
05. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Mondo Stupid
06. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Hold Everything
07. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Sheer Madness
08. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Some Crust
09. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Coarse Fish
10. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Trapped Heir Suite Part 2
11. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Persistence of Fred MacMurray
01. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Intro
02. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Asafoetida
03. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Gulf
04. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Distiller
05. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Summertime
06. ORCHID SPANGIAFORA - Second Hand Smoke
ARTIST
TITLE
Flee Past's Ape Elf
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
FTR 096LP FTR 096LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/21/2014

Restocked, last copies. Splendid, expanded reissue of this monster album, which most people know from its placement on the NWW List. Stapleton even went so far as to name a track of his ("Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree") after a mis-hearing of one of Flee Past's' many memorable lines. The music has its roots in Hampshire College's Electronic Music Studio in the early 1970s. While taking a class on electronic composition, Robert Carey was smitten by the potentialities lurking inside piles of reel-to-reel tape. Presented with a stack of such stuff, mostly recorded from television broadcasts, he began an epic stumble into the universe of musique concrète. Carey refashioned banal spoken material into bizarre, hilarious and shockingly musical suites that you could listen to for sheer yucks or revelatory juxtapositions. Influenced by Gysin/Burroughs/Somerville's cut-up techniques, as much as Zappa's 1960s editing flair, Carey (rechristened Orchid Spangiafora by some wise-ass music professors) created new savage aural realities that you could almost dance to. The original album was released by Twin/Tone Records in 1979, at the behest of the Suicide Commandos' Chris Osgood (who'd been Carey's roommate at Hamsphire). It didn't make too much of a splash, but managed to sneak into a lot of important ears nonetheless. And it remains one of the few records that I can put on in the 21st century and still have people ask, "What the hell is that?" Now you can do the same. Edition of 500 copies.