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The Art Of Walking (CD)

By: Pere Ubu (Artist)

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Pere Ubu Artist Snapshot:

Pere Ubu was aptly named for Alfred Jarry's Dadaist play. One of the prime movers in post-punk, the influential Cleveland, Ohio, group took the power and volume of punk and the fractured song forms of avant-gardists like Captain Beefheart, then sent David Thomas's free-ranging vocalizing careening across the top. Founded in the 1970s, the group has undergone a multitude of manifestations to become one of the longest-lasting avant-garde ("avant-garage," they have called themselves) music groups, continuing to make uncommercial audio into the 21st century.

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DISC 1 for The Art Of Walking (CD) Album By Pere Ubu (Artist)
1   Go
2   Rhapsody In Pink
3   Arabia
4   Young Miles In The Basement
5   Misery Goats
6   Loop
7   Rounder
8   Birdies
9   Lost In Art
10   Horses
11   Crush This Horn
12   Arabian Nights - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Q (1/00, p.140) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...delves deep into their experimental side....equal parts marvellous and maddening, a loping, meandering affair on the edge of improvisation..."
Alternative Press (4/00, pp.95-6) - 4 out of 5 - "...a meditative album....David Thomas' vocals sound alternately frantic and depressed....This disc is an essential purchase, but they're definitely not dancefloor or party fodder."
The Wire (4/00, p.63) - "...[A] scattered affair, with chaos threatening at every turn....Singer David Thomas seems to enjoy the collapsing arrangements....giving off the strong, oily whiff of a long night in the Ubu practice space..."

Title Note

Pere Ubu: Mayo Thompson (vocals, guitar, piano); David Thomas (vocals, organ, drums); Scott Krauss (horn, piano, drums, drum machine); Tony Maimone (piano, bass, organ); Allen Ravenstine (synthesizer).

As out-there as Pere Ubu's early singles like "Heart of Darkness" and first couple of albums were, they were still recognizable as rock & roll, however warped. By the time of their fourth album, 1981's THE ART OF WALKING, however, all traces of the group's early proto-punk sound had been sublimated into something else entirely. Less sonically aggressive than before, though still challenging ("Lost in Art" is as noisy as anything the band ever did), the 12 songs on THE ART OF WALKING show the growing influence of Pere Ubu's newest member, Mayo Thompson.

Thompson, the Texas-bred leader of the Red Krayola, favors difficult but occasionally oddly soothing soundscapes, and his more gentle musical sense displaces a lot of leader David Thomas' sonic aggression, making THE ART OF WALKING simultaneously more inviting and more opaque than any of Ubu's earlier work. It's a challenge, but it's worth it.

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