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Dazzling, revolutionary genius.
‘Stalling was a visionary whose work deserves consideration among the finest American avant-garde music ever recorded. As these selections from WB cartoons dating between 1936 and 1958 attest, his cut and paste style — a singular collision between jazz, classical, pop, and virtually everything else in between — was unprecedented in its utter disregard for notions of time, rhythm, and compositional development; Stalling didn’t just break the rules, he made them irrelevant. That in the process he created music beloved by succeeding generations of children is more impressive still’ (AllMusic).
Swaying, haunting tangos from Turkey, from the twenties to the fifties, drenched in tears and booze, regret and recrimination.
Besides the debut single She Is Beyond Good And Evil adding the ten-track album Alien Blood and Y Live.
Alien Blood unearths revelatory, never-before-heard material, including the studio recording of Kiss The Book, a gloves-off version of We Are Time (Ricochet) and Words Disobey Me (Dennis The Menace Mix). It exposes the raw skeletons of iconic tracks such as Thief of Fire (Bass Addict), at its original velocity.
Y Live captures all the fierce urgency of the group’s live performances at the time, at a variety of locations including New York, Manchester and — on a bill with William Burroughs and Joy Division — Brussels. It bottles what was so thrilling about The Pop Group.
Too experimental for their label International Artists, back in 1967.
A third album of luscious sampladelic pop magic. Catchy, laid-back Beach Boys-esque pop and Laurel Canyon-bedsit-style loveliness.
‘Music is heard coming from Iron Chicken’s egg. The egg breaks and Tiny Clanger plays with all the notes from inside. The Soup Dragon eats most of them, so Tiny takes the last couple outside and plants them. He gets the cloud to rain on them, and they grow into beautiful music trees. Tiny Clanger conducts the first tune.’
