NEGATIVLAND 1. LP PEOPLE LIKE US-NURSE WITH WOUND-LAFMS

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NEGATIVLAND

NEGATIVLAND (1ST) LP

Seeland Records

Handmade wallpaper cover / Handpainted

Numbered 

w/insert 

Rare debut LP from these american legends of "political" sound collage and tape manipulations back from 1980. Each cover unique, this one's handpanted and with pasted-on cover artwork from magazines.  

Some info on the release: Very rare debut album from american sound collagists Negativland, released privately on the own Seeland imprint, back in 1980. Really beautiful handmade cover artwork, totally DIY aesthetics, wallpaper cover with pasted on pictures from magazines on the front, while under the pasted artwork the cover is sprayed and numbered. On the back there is also a pasted and handpainted sheet of paper. The record comes with the original insert. Musically you have a strange mix of Los Angeles Free Music Society (Le Forte Four, Doo-Dooettes, Smegma, John Duncan) together with musique concrete like listening to a record by Nurse with wound, John Oswald, People like Us, The Residents or Plunderphonics. Some have called Negativland “merry pranksters,” due to their often humorous sound collages. Simply put, the group deconstructs music, taking apart individual sounds, adding unconventional instruments (using everyday objects), then putting everything together in a seemingly haphazard way. The key term is seemingly, since much of their material contains a central point, from mocking those in authority to exposing quirks in human nature. Since 1980, founding member Mark Hosler and a rotating group of singers, musicians, (many of whom hold jobs outside of music) and graphic artists have created audio collages, art, and videos meant to provoke and entertain....

Here's a review of the album from All Music: "The then-trio's debut record, like many first efforts out there, was tentative in many ways; without Don Joyce and his ear for ratcheting up collage chaos to even more confused yet coherent levels, Negativland here had many of the intentions but not the overarching conceptual approach. Still, much that's core about the group was already perfectly apparent — the use of unexpected and often disorienting found-sound samples, sudden stops and starts, few "songs" as such. It's a very subtle record on balance, though, only here and there being as flat-out jarring and, dare it be said, epic as later albums, but with a fine ear to offsetting what might be pure ambient sound with a sense of both dynamics and construction. Nothing appears to be added "just because." Many of the band's earliest roots can readily be detected — the combination of acoustic guitar and household noises on "2," for example, call to mind Pink Floyd's similar blend of mellow music and domestic activity on "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast." Auras of Neu!'s cosmic drift mode and Faust's skipping from one source to another also come to mind; guitars are usually heavily processed and what conventional melodies are apparent, while the whispered vocals and near new wave pulse and chug of "10" suggest newer sources of inspiration. If something is already clear, it's the approach to considering suburban life and activity as a source of both amusement and unnerving horror. It could be the metallic drones and buzzes underlying "3" or the children's laughter and giggles mixed with nuclear war alerts on "19," but something is not entirely right. Wills doesn't make his vocal presence known except briefly, but when he appears, his one-of-a-kind way of speaking helps make the whole experience as perfectly Negativland as could be desired. Classic Wills moment: him saying over a drum machine skitter, "Play Black Sabbath at 78 RPM!"

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song. The current core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, Richard Lyons, Don Joyce, David Wills, and Peter Conheim. Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions. These have mostly been released on their own label, Seeland Records. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they produced several recordings for SST Records, most notably Escape from Noise, Helter Stupid, and U2. Negativland became involved in a lawsuit with U2's lawyers, which brought them widespread publicity and notoriety.

Condition: Mint- condition for vinyl, played only a couple of times and showing no spindle marks at all crystal clear and shiny, while cover lies in mint- condition, gently used.

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