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LA STPO (La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux) - Le Combat Occulte

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Beta-Lactam Ring Records mt047a Release Year: 2005 Note: collection of rare & live material of this great French Avant-band which has been often compared to D.D.A.A (their very first 7" appeared on Illusion Production in 1986), though they have much heavier & very expressive experimental Prog-Rock and "RIO" influences; lim. 200, 180gr. vinyl, back in ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 More Info Stark limitierte Vinyl-Version! Rares und live-Material dieser französischen « Avant Post-Punk »-Band, die in ihrer aktiven Zeit ingesamt mehr als 30 Mitglieder hatte!! Anklänge an DDAA (die erste Single von LA STPO erschien übrigens 1986 auf Illusion Production!), VOLCANO THE BEAR, und die wildesten RECOMMENDED RECORDS-Sachen... Grosse weirde wilde DADA-Energie! “It's strange to think that a score of years ago the world was just emerging from the last of its new wave haze, only to enter a brave new era of over produced, digitally recorded schlock. La STPO was borne into this miasma of mediocrity with knives out. They have remained bastions of outré ever since their bloodied birth. Vive La STPO! To celebrate two decades of one of the finest, most fractured & indefatigable European avant post punk bands, BlRR has nailed together this 11 track retrospective of 7300 days in the life of La STPO. & rather than trying to shape this into some sort of "best of" or "greatest hits," BlRR & La STPO have done the reverse by leaning more heavily in on the group's more exploratory moments. This also makes for a better album that, in its own skewed way, fits together as if all recorded in the same session. As presented here, La STPO are truly Rock In Opposition. Unlike their Zeuhl spewing forbears, however, STPO are not trying to fuse jazz & rock. Their rock is in opposition of all things safely established, including Rock In Opposition. Jagged & bleated arrangements with familiar rock instrumentation clash to form screaming, dada-pregnant, contorted punk concertos. Oddly timed & full of changes, this is music to fall down escalators to. Sometimes this is music to lay at the bottom of escalators to. Just as your fingers begin to snap, STPO leaps off the page into a droning menace. A cadence of broken buzzsaw guitar hums ejaculate into soft & staggering staccato strings. La STPO's propensity for quiet tension gives the tumult of their caterwauls that much more weight. The vocalist is as likely to coo & chirp as he is to chant & caw. Reeds, vibes & trumpets walk freely with the rest, making this as dynamic & interesting a record as one could hope for in this hopelessly metering post rock era. Any group that can take The Ex to task & come out singing an aria afterwards is certainly worth falling down an escalator for.” [label press release]