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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 006 lp

john avery “jessica in the room of lights” long playing record

  • do this to another human being
  • selling plastic
  • initial pursuit of harry
  • jessica in the room of lights

  • zero zero one, zero one
  • zero one
  • the day serenity returned to the ground
  • almost
august 2012 release ; ... quite interesting set of industrially-tinged ambient & slow-pulse numbers by hula bassist john avery, initially issued in 1986 on technical records ...

... a certain cabaret voltaire-esque set of sound-combinations permeates throughout ; lots of found-sound, metallic drum machine-gunning, and some rather nice, warm, mellotron-plate-baths that wouldn’t be out of place on a popol vuh record ...
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jessica in the room of lights (lp)
by john avery
fn006

john avery: multi-loop, piano, synthesisers, tape-collage, programmes, freezes, spanish & fretless guitars, devices and mix.
anne loughlin: vocals on “001-01-01” and voice sample for “the day serenity returned to the ground”.
catherine naden: voice on “jessica in the room of lights”.

recorded 1984-1986.
originally released on technical records in 1986.

soundtrack for forced entertainment's very first show.

thanks to hula, to winnie of ici for the use of her piano (and the tea), to andrew hulme. and to fré for the hard work.

© & forced nostalgia, 2012.

a&r: fré de vos
design: andrew mcgowan
original cover and photography: jocelyn cammack

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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 005 lp

loren nerell “point of arrival” long playing record

  • eidolon
  • soundscape
  • matrix
  • growth

  • waves of time
june 2012 release ; ... kind of a “sea-change” for this belgian imprint (prior concerned exclusively with european “minimal synth” reissues) ... here issuing american “balinese gamelan composer” loren nerell’s first tape, made in a style that can rightly be described as “synth collector music” (i.e. music for people that collect synthesizers ... the genre’s most visible performers being michael stearns, steve roach, robert rich, kevin braheny, etc) ...

... largely comprised of cyclic rhythm & melody “modules”, littered with “metallic” lines & some deep, thumpy drum machine glorp, this speaks some of the same language as the carpenter / howarth collaborations, while being maybe a bit cheesier ; something of a paean to the era’s “fourth world” conceits ...
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point of arrival (lp)
by loren nerell
fn005

special thanks to my friends at the time, rychard cooper, richard burmer (you are missed richard), steve roach, ann dejarnet, sander wolf (for original cover photos), jim reekes (for original cassette layout), mike mcnally, joe derry, chuck oken jr, mike bacich, tom major and fré de vos (for making this release possible).

instrumentation: arp 2600, arp sequencers (2 of them), emu emulator 1 with cv / gate converter, emu emulator 2, eml 101, ems synthi a (2 of them), linn linndrum, moog micromoog, moog minimoog, moog model 15 modular, oberheim obxa, oberheim dsx sequencer, oberheim dx drum machine, oberheim dmx drum machine, roland jupiter 4, roland sh3a.

originally released by the artist as a cassette in 1986.

© & forced nostalgia, 2012.
a&r: fré de vos
artwork: radu prepeleac

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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 004 lp

vazz / la bambola del dr caligari “whisper not b/w the wrong holiday” long playing record

  • vazz - want of anger
  • vazz - cast reflections
  • vazz - lost time
  • vazz - thirst for white
  • vazz - endless road
  • vazz - flute dance

  • la bambola del dr caligari - strawberry creeps
  • la bambola del dr caligari - blue soldier
  • la bambola del dr caligari - deep skanner
  • la bambola del dr caligari - satan's pride
  • la bambola del dr caligari - voices on am (edit)
january 2012 release ; ... fourth release on this shadowy “belgian” label, dedicated to unearthing obscure uk & european “minimal synth” sides from the early-mid-80’s ...

... this one’s a split, with a side each by the “italian” act la bambola del dr caligari (kinda can’t deal w/ the faux siouxsie vocals throughout, even if some of the synth / organ & rhythm box organizations are sweet) & “scottish” duo vazz (who fare better w/ their mix of decidedly post-punk moves, disco guitar skank & heavily metallic echo-laden production) ...
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whisper not / the wrong holiday (split lp)
by vazz and la bambola del dr caligari
fn004

street date: january 2012

side a written and performed by anna howson and hugh small.

all tracks recorded throughout 1982 at the hellfire club, glasgow.
engineered by david henderson.
previously released as a limited cassette-only edition of 100 copies (cat no crv7404).
instrumentation: voice, guitars, bass, drum boxes, percussion, casio mt-30 keyboard, xylophone, clarinet, wood flute.

side b written and performed by judy asquith, aurelium spitty and j.r. ewing.

additional keyboards on b1 & b4 by duke whitewater.
all tracks recorded live at strawberry studios, bologna, 1983-1986.
engineered by aurelium spitty.
remastered by roberto napoli, july 2004.
'voices on am' edited by mark godwin, april 2011.
compiled by fré de vos.
instrumentation: voice, synthesizer, effects, drum machines and keyboards.

a&r: fré de vos
photography: hotel delta!
artwork: radu prepeleac

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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 003 lp

pump “the decoration of the duma continues” long playing record

  • dance without music
  • blind
  • a veiled woman
  • drop

  • lung
  • brinkmanship
  • a sort of accident
  • the hammering stops
  • raft
september 2011 release ; ... obscure uk minimal / synth pop project (of andrew cox & david elliott) ...

often touted as a side-project of shock headed peters / lemon kittens member karl blake (who really only appears on one track) this one features an opening gambit that sounds so much like a ford & lopatin production it’s almost surreal (plus a few nice synth-arpeggiator interludes & some light ambience - czech the sound-sample) ...
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the decoration of the duma continues (lp)
by pump
fn003
street date: september 29th

recorded 1986-87.

written and produced by andrew cox and david elliott (except b1 by cox/elliott/blake).

instrumentation: synthesizers, samplers, guitars, basses, sequencers, drum machine, vocals, percussion, trumpet, wind chimes, banjo, bottles, tapes.

karl blake: vocals and guitar on lung (courtesy shock headed peters).
malcolm lane: guitar on lung.
andré breton’s original drifting cowboys: noises on a sort of accident.

recorded at ips, shepherds bush; unicorn, wood green; and steam, leigh-on-sea and cricklewood.
engineers: andrew cox, mark jenkins, tony poole, peter mcghee.
mixed at ips and unicorn.

originally released on final image (fib3) 1987, with thanks to andrew hulme.

a watercress international production; all titles © pump 1987 copyright control.

© & forced nostalgia, 2011.

a&r: fré de vos
art direction and photography: david elliott
design: radu prepeleac

pump

an english duo consisting of david elliott and andrew cox, that made experimental / ambient electronic music. they were active between 1979 and 1993 and released five cassette albums as mfh before changing their name to pump in 1986. the group never officially dissolved but when david elliott moved to japan in the nineties, it was effectively the end of pump. andrew cox died in january 2009.

their second album as pump 'sombrero fallout' was originally due for release in 1993 but for inexplicable reasons never happened. belgian plague recordings released it as cd in 2010.

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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 002 lp

cicciolina holocaust / sermonizer “albeit albeit b/w sibelius spiders” long playing record

  • cicciolina holocaust - zigomar
  • cicciolina holocaust - in tempore non suspecto
  • cicciolina holocaust - silent killing

  • sermonizer - rosalita
  • sermonizer - mystery
  • sermonizer - acid68 to dica86
  • sermonizer - sibelius spiders
  • sermonizer - copulator
may 2011 release ; first title we’ve had in stock from the belgian forced nostalgia imprint, about whom ::

we are a record label dedicated to releasing archival material from the analogue electronic underground dating from the post-punk heyday of the late 70s to the mid 90s. our program takes in a wayward selection of often unreleased, mostly unheard and overlooked material from tape music to industrial, from bossa-pop to proto-techno, and from drone to out and out analogue experimentation. the vast majority of the music now being made available on vinyl for the very first time.

nice aesthetic framework there, which lead me to investigate this particular release ... while i really wanted to say that this thing has “fake reissue” written all over it (oddly hiss-free fidelity, esp. given the time-frame & geography / technology at work here ; discogs listing of the purported “original” cicciolina tape put up the month this went into production by an associate) ; but people tell me sermonizer is a fairly well-known figure in 80’s italian minimal-wave dealings (of which i have little-to-no greater understanding outside of a general enthusiasm ; besides if it weren’t for william bennett, we probably wouldn’t have heard of maurizio bianchi either) ...

anyways, both sides of this kinda slay ; the woozy cornet (cornet !!!), pencil-thin drum-machine & hazy found-audio fragments of cicciolina holocaust are a real treat & the record only gets better with sermonizer’s sea-sick 8-bit digital echo-lines & pulsing, carpenter-ian figures ... very cool record ; hopefully the label will be digging out more along these lines in the near-future ...
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albeit albeit / sibelius spiders (split lp)
by cicciolina holocaust and sermonizer
fn002

side a performed by florim prishtina and rezart veseli.
recorded 1984, firenze (italy).
instrumentation: guitar, korg poly 61, korg kpr 77, cornet, self-built machines, tascam portastudio (4-track), effect pedals, tapes.
previously released as private cassette edition.
digitally remastered directly from analogue tapes.

cicciolina holocaust

florim prishtina and rezart veseli recorded together in firenze (italy) during the late 70s til mid 80s. in 1984 they started using the cicciolina holocaust moniker and released several home-taped cassettes, all small private editions given to friends. their collaboration ended in 1987 when veseli migrated to greece.

using guitar, korg poly 61, korg kpr 77, cornet, tascam portastudio (4-track), effect pedals, tapes and an array of self-built machines, cicciolina holocaust's work covers a wide spectrum of analogue electronics, resulting in oppressive synthscapes and minimal proto-techno experiments.

side b recorded and mixed at agucchi home studios 1983-1986 on 4-track tape recorder.
instrumentation: synthesizer, guitar, violin, drum machines, electric shaver and other found objects.
guest vocals on copulator by meana rozzi.
guest aura by aurelium spitty.

sermonizer

bologna (italy) based sermonizer started experimenting with primitive (field-) recordings and tape manipulations in late '79. from 1984 he recorded numerous avant-garde, industrial and ambient works on to a 4-track recorder. his massive output consists of numerous private tape albums, both studio and live recordings.

over the years he has used many monikers: bas fled, rosalita tormento, the pope sings the requiem, sobillator sisters, burbank terror, korosiva kancerata cenerarium, creepozoids, sibelius spiders,  in the bathroom of souls and sermons and the hyper-pope. anno 2011, sermonizer is still active. his themes, inspiration and phylosophy have remained the same for the last 30 years.

forced nostalgia, 2011.
a&r: fré de vos
artwork: radu prepeleac
engineer: roberto napoli 

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forced nostalgia (belgium) #fn 001 lp

pelican daughters “fishbones and wishbones” long playing record

  • exodus
  • the haywain
  • rockaby
  • infiltration

  • insect wing
  • visited
  • through the sepulchre
  • do the crawl
july 2011 release ; ... debut issue from this new imprint dedicated to unearthing 80’s “cassette-scene” releases & giving them the boutique vinyl reissue treatment ...

... this one, essentially a “greatest hits” collection from obscure australian act pelican daughters, is rife with clunky drum-machine glorp & some actual un-ironic slap bass, but mixed in are some really great “minimal synth” mood pieces (such as the proto-acid tumbler listenable to your left via the sound-sample) ...
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fishbones and wishbones (lp)
by pelican daughters
fn001
street date: july 4th

recorded on portastudio, 1985-1988, sydney, australia by andy rantzen, justin brandis, bryce cannon and andrew holmes.

versions of this album have been previously released on tape by cosmic conspiracy productions (1988), on cd by silent records (1991) and as download on 4-4-2 music (2009).

special thanks to alex karinsky, kim cascone, adrian elmer and andy lonsdale for keeping these tracks alive across the years.

this version compiled by fré de vos, © forced nostalgia, 2011.

a&r: fré de vos
design: adrian elmer
logo: postvorm

pelican daughters

pelican daughters were founded by justin brandis and andy rantzen in 1984. using a variety of instruments, found objects & diy tape loops, the pair released a succession of cassette-only releases into sydney music stores. over the course of several cassette releases and live performances, including two cassette releases on ccp, the duo were joined over the years by occasional members ben fontaine, andrew holmes, james fergus, bryce cannon and anthony maher (aka dub producer sheriff lindo).

the group also recorded with miriam williamson of wrong kind of stone age, a collaboration that eventually blended some pelican daughters tracks into the early work of long-running australian techno act itch-e & scratch-e (paul mac and andy rantzen), most notably on the  track 'sweetness and light', now considered an early rave classic. a chance connection led to ‘fishbones and wishbones’ (essentially a ‘best-of’ from the cassette years) and ‘bliss’ being released by kim cascone’s san francisco label, silent records. one further album, 'darkness before light', remained unreleased until 2009, when it was picked up by sydney label 4-4-2 music.

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