Friday, 17 January 2025

MAGNIFICENT RUIN

 

Tony Sinden / Alan Baker & The Insects: Magnificent Cactus Trees... (Piano Records, 1979)

One of the scuzziest sounding records I have, in one of the scruffiest and most badly designed sleeves. A scratchy, repetitive, minimal guitar motif is complemented by tinny bongos and the intermittent and intrusive hiss of machine noise. 

A price sticker affixed to the label shows that the record passed through the Record & Tape Exchange in Notting Hill, and was gradually reduced in price from 40 to 20 to 10. I'm assuming pence. 

I don't really know what this record is for, but I like it, and listen to it whenever I want music that sounds like a faulty clock in an empty factory with a hole in the roof.

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