ARTIST...: Bourbonese Qualk
TITLE....: Hope
YEAR.....: 2020
LABEL....: Mannequin / Platform 23 Records
CAT.NO...: MNQ112 / PLA031
GENRE....: Industrial
TIME.....: 43:40
SIZE.....: 85.93 MB
QUALITY..: 274kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB (WAV)
RLS.DATE.: 2020/07/05
WEBSITE..: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-112-bourbonese-qualk-hope-lp
TRACKLIST
01) (02:35) Erector
02) (06:10) Sunset Sex
03) (03:53) Invocation
04) (01:47) Cold Blood
05) (03:32) Head Stop
06) (02:49) Mission England
07) (04:47) Dereliction
08) (03:16) Black Madonna
09) (04:27) Gag
10) (04:02) Something In The Air
11) (02:07) There Is No Night
12) (04:15) Loop
The second album to be reissued by Mannequin and Platform 23 Records of the music
from Bourbonese Qualk, Hope saw the politically active musical entity expand on their
mix of music, art and politics.
Staunchly independent, doing the recording and design via their Recloose Organisation
label, by 1984 the group had occupied a large disused building on the Old Kent Road,
becoming the base for the band's activities as well as other creative and political
activism.
Recorded at the Ambulance Station, Hope is full of unceasing drum machine rhythms,
electro pulses, echoing samples and lo-fi synths matched with strummed guitars and
dub bass. The accompanying drones and snarled vocals go beyond any early 80's
industrial tag to be something more unique, with the uncompromising, conceptual and
avant flashes showing a more experimental buzz, an awkward quasi-funk noisy nuisance.
This is music as much for then and today, a radical, revolutionary cultural force
that acts as a positive social charge.
Released January 20, 2020
Written and recorded by the group during 1983-1984 at their newly occupied
headquarters, the notorious "Ambulance Station".
Bourbonese Qualk line up: Drums û Steven Tanza / Guitar û Simon Crab / Voice û Julian
Gilbert
Remastered by Rude 66.
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