ALVARO Drinkin My Own Sperm LP/1977 UK/"The Chilean with the Singing Nose"/NWW

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ALVARO 'Drinkin My Own Sperm' LP (US, Feeding Tube Records, Catalogue #FTR174) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Feeding Tube Records label LP edition (edition of 800 copies only) release of legendary 1977 UK released debut LP by Alvaro ("The Chilean with the Singing Nose"), formerly of the London Pub Rock band The 101ers (featuring bandmate and future member of the Clash Joe Strummer.) Latin American Lounge Music on Acid? From Outer Space? Something else? You decide! (and, yes, the title track does sound like Brian Eno.) Bonus: featured on nothing less than the legendary Nurse With Wound list! File under Weirdo Musica Classica! (Note: This album is great.)

(NOTE: LIMITED EDITION OF 800 COPIES ONLY!)

"Beautiful reissue of the 1977 debut solo LP by Alvaro -- the Chilean with the Singing Nose. Alvaro Peña-Rojas was an advertising exec who ended up living in a squat in London when he chucked his professional career to fulfill his dream of being a musician. Rooming with he-who-would-become Joe Strummer, Alvaro was a founding member of the squat's pub-rock band, The 101ers. After the Pistols opened for The 101ers at the Nashville Rooms, Strummer felt like he was destined to become a punk, and founded The Clash. Alvaro took his own trio into the studio (along with singer Cathy Williams, then in Red Balune with her boyfriend, Geoff Leigh) and used his savings to record Drinkin My Own Sperm, which he then had pressed up on his own Squeaky Shoes label. The music is a mad mélange -- like Andean lounge music in parts, like berserk early Eno in others, and filled with the strange joy of Alvaro's keyboard inventions throughout. The album's title-track -- which Alvaro has long claimed was an ode to his lonely existence in London -- strikes us more like the move of a canny marketer. Because of its title, the record was banned on the BBC and often noted in contemporary mainstream journals as yet another sign of the disgrace that was punk. Of course, we leave the ultimate decision to you, but one has to wonder. This new release has both the lyric insert that accompanied the second pressing back in '78, as well as an historical booklet penned by Brian Turner (of WFMU) and Byron Coley. 800 copies were pressed." --Byron Coley, 2015

- Reissue of the 1977 debut solo LP by Alvaro Peña-Rojas, "the Chilean with the singing nose."
- A mad mélange -- like Andean lounge music in parts, like berserk early Eno in others, and filled with the strange joy of Alvaro's keyboard inventions throughout.
- Recorded and self-released after the breakup of London pub-rock band The 101ers, in which Peña-Rojas played alongside he-who-would-become Joe Strummer.
- Features singer Cathy Williams, then in Red Balune with her boyfriend, Geoff Leigh.
- Includes the lyric insert that accompanied the second pressing back in '78, as well as an historical booklet penned by Brian Turner (of WFMU) and Byron Coley.
- Pressing of 800 copies.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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