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Saturday, October 31, 2009 
from ubuprojex.net

Chris Cutler's RERMegacorp label has released a live Pere Ubu cd of tracks selected from the hearpen.com download audio releases Waltz Across Texas and Waltz By The Sea. The cd is called London Texas (ReR U01).

1. Waiting For Mary
2. Cry
3. The Waltz
4. Love Love Love
5. Pushin'
6. Caligari's Mirror		7. Breath
8. Lost Nation Road
9. Humor Me
10. On The Surface
11. Final Solution
Production Notes:
Recorded London, March 16, 1989.
Concert recording mastered by David Thomas.
Chris Cutler compiled this CD and edited the tracks.
Tracks re-mastered by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, France, Spring 2008.
Package Design by John Thompson/idrome.net
Photos by Kathy Thompson

All compositions: Cutler, Jones, Krauss, Maimone, Ravenstine, Thomas, except 4 - Herman, Krauss, Laughner, Taylor, Thomas, Wright, 6, 9, 10 -Herman, Krauss, Maimone, Ravenstine, Thomas and 11 - Bell, Herman, Krauss, Laughner, Taylor, Thomas, Wright.

All songs published by Ubu Projex, administered by Bug Music, except Love Love Love, Caligari's Mirror, Humor Me, On The Surface and Final Solution which are published outside USA and Canada by EMI Music.
Band:
David Thomas - vocals, commiehorn
Jim Jones - guitar, backing vocals
Eric Drew Feldman - synthesizers
Tony Maimone - bass, backing vocals
Scott Krauss - drums
Chris Cutler - drums


 

A great live recording of the sadly short-lived version of the band that existed between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. By far the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section, I think, and the whole band is on intense concert form: David racked up to 11, Eric working equally on foundations and fine details as to the out-there manner born and Jim Jones somewhere in the stratosphere. Coming back to it, this was a pretty great band. The songs are economical, tightly arranged and take no prisoners. And there's that live energy - the closest we can get to being when and where we weren't. Studio recordings can't do this. Mastered by Bob Drake, and it stings like a bee - with a beret. Play it loud.


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Sunday, October 04, 2009 
from ubuprojex.net

Datapanik In The Year Zero Re-release
Cooking Vinyl will re-issue the box set October 5. They have license rights in territories outside North America. The booklet and packaging have been redesigned by John Thompson. It is now a 4-cd set, including all songs from the studio albums from The Modern Dance to Song Of The Bailing Man. The original 2-track, quarter-inch analog mix tapes of all the albums were re-transferred to digital at 192khz / 24 bit resolution and re-mastered, after, of course, having been baked in the Suma oven to dry them out.

"This particular box contains some of the most harrowing, incendiary music ever made... Without this music, not only would punk probably never have happened, but the most interesting post-punk developments - from the likes of Talking Heads and Joy Division - might never have reached the starting-line either. Essential." - The Independent (1996)

CD1: 1975 - 19771. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (6:23)
2. Heart of Darkness (4:46)
3. Final Solution (5:00)
4. Cloud 149 (2:39)
5. Untitled (3:34)
6. My Dark Ages (4:02)
7. Heaven (3:07)
8. Non-Alignment Pact (3:21)
9. The Modern Dance (3:31) 		10. Laughing (4:37)
11. Street Waves (3:07)
12. Chinese Radiation (3:31)
13. Life Stinks (1:55)
14. Real World (4:03)
15. Over My Head (3:54)
16. Sentimental Journey (6:18)
17. Humor Me (2:45)
18. The Book Is On The Table (4:02)
CD2: 1978 - 1979		1. Navvy (2:41)
2. On The Surface (2:35)
3. Dub Housing (3:40)
4. Caligari's Mirror (3:49)
5. Thriller! (4:36)
6. I Will Wait (1:46)
7. Drinking Wine Spodyody (2:45)
8. Ubu Dance Party (4:47)
9. Blow Daddy-o (3:39)
10. Codex (4:55) 		11. The Fabulous Sequel (3:07)
12. 49 Guitars & One Girl (2:51)
13. A Small Dark Cloud (5:50)
14. Small Was Fast (3:39)
15. All The Dogs Are Barking (3:02)
16. One Less Worry (3:46)
17. Make Hay (4:03)
18. Goodbye (5:18)
19. Voice of The Sand (1:28)
20. Kingdom Come (3:14)
CD3: 1980 - 1982		1. Go (3:35)
2. Rhapsody In Pink (3:35)
3. Arabia (5:00)
4. Young Miles In The Basement (3:00)
5. Misery Goats (2:38)
6. Loop (3:15)
7. Rounder (3:25)
8. Birdies (2:27)
9. Lost In Art (5:12)
10. Horses (2:36)
11. Crush This Horn (3:02) 		12. The Long Walk Home (2:35)
13. Use Of A Dog (3:19)
14. Petrified (2:17)
15. Stormy Weather (3:21)
16. West Side Story (2:48)
17. Thoughts That Go By Steam (3:50)
18. Big Ed's Used Farms (2:25)
19. A Day Such As This (7:20)
20. The Vulgar Boatman Bird (2:50)
21. My Hat (1:19)
22. Horns Are A Dilemma (4:22)
CD4: Terminal Drive		1. Foreign Bodies, The Incredible Truth (2:35)
2. 15-60-75, It's In Imagination (4:43)
3. Syd's Dance Band, Never Again (2:20)
4. Carney & Thomas, Sunset In The Antipodes (2:26)
5. Home & Garden, (please) FIX MY HORN (my brakes don't work) (3:24)
6. Neptune's Car, Baking Bread (2:13)
7. David Thomas, Atom Mind (2:29)
8. Tripod Jimmie, Autumn Leaves (4:17)
9. Friction, Dear Richard (5:56) 		10. Pressler-Morgan, You're Gonna Watch Me (1:40)
11. Rocket From The Tombs, Amphetamine (5:32)
12. Mirrors, She Smiled Wild (3:57)
13. Electric Eels, Jaguar Ride (1:46)
14. Tom Herman, Steve Canyon Blues (4:17)
15. Allen Ravenstine, Home Life (6:43)
16. Rocket From The Tombs, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (7:00)
17. Pere Ubu, Heart of Darkness (8:46)
18. Pere Ubu, Pushin Too Hard (3:54)
Release Notes:
This version of the box set contains the complete versions of the first five studio albums plus the Hearpen singles. For this re-issue the original 2-track, quarter-inch analog mix tapes of all the albums were baked in the Suma oven to dry them out, re-transferred to digital at 192khz / 24 bit resolution and then re-mastered in the same room and referencing to the same monitors on which they were originally mixed. The masters are as follows:
The Modern Dance 2005 Master
Dub Housing 2008 Master
New Picnic Time 2008 Master
The Art Of Walking 2008 Master
Song Of The Bailing Man 2008 Master
Hearpen Singles 2008 Master
The booklet and packaging were redesigned and reconfigured by John Thompson.
CD1: 1975 - 1977
Tracks 1 to 7 are the Hearpen recordings, released as singles from 1975 to 1977. "Street Waves" was also a Hearpen single but appears here as its The Modern Dance mix. Tracks 8 to 17 comprise The Modern Dance (1978) produced by Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu. Track 18 is an out-take of the Dub Housing session that appeared as a UK b-side in 1979.

CD2: 1978 - 1979
Tracks 1 to 10 comprise Dub Housing (1978) produced by Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu. Tracks 11 to 20 comprise New Picnic Time (1979) produced by Ken Hamann and Pere Ubu.

CD3: 1980 - 1982
Tracks 1 to 11 comprise The Art Of Walking (1980), produced by Pere Ubu and Paul Hamann. Tracks 12 to 22 comprise Song Of The Bailing Man (1982), produced by Adam Kidron.
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Friday, September 04, 2009 
From the new LP "Long Live Pere Ubu"


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Saturday, June 20, 2009 
from ubuprojex.net

The podcast series of 8 episodes from Pere Ubu's ground-breaking project "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" is up and running at www.hearpen.com, the band's own audio download web site. It can be subscribed to thru iTunes. A direct link to the podcast can be reached thru here. It bypasses the hearpen.com page which we assumed ubuprojex.net readers have visited numerous times already...

The series of eight podcasts covers the first three acts of the six act radio play that was inspired by the songs on Pere Ubu's forthcoming Cooking Vinyl and Hearpen cd "Long Live Père Ubu!" (Release date: September 14). The idea to record a "radio play" was conceived as a way of managing the "silence" between songs in a concert set so that the spoken word is manipulated and mixed with electronic ambience and transformed into a unique musical style of its own. The script for the radio play, adapted by David Thomas from Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" (King Ubu), is Version 2 of a theatrical production also called "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" that premiered in its original version at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, April 25 and 26 2008.

Embedded in the podcasts are songs from "Long Live Père Ubu!, as well as dialog and electronic ambience. Sarah Jane Morris (ex-Communards, Happy End) performs the role of Mère Ubu, partnering Thomas who performs as Père Ubu. Other members of the band supply the voices of other characters.

Jarry's proto-Absurdist stage play that gave the band its name, and supplied the inspiration for the songs on "Long Live Père Ubu!," had its premiere in Paris in 1896, provoking riots in the theatre and a national scandal. A vicious and satiric re-telling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Jarry's work lambastes do-gooder monsters and the survival of the Unfit.

Sez Bob Holman:
The UBU radio play is sheer genius! Who is Mere? She is up to you. And Bladdergas or whatever his name is -- outrageous. But it's youyouyou all over and under, the music farts and belches along the greasy path to belchpoland... Congratz...

Sez Zouba:
and i can't stop playing it over and over. Just - brilliant. I can't find superlatives enough and am intrigued and eager to hear the next episode.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 
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"Long Live Père Ubu!"

Cooking Vinyl will release the album September 14 in the UK, Europe and USA. The album is studio versions of the songs from Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi. The album was recorded at Suma over the period of January to September 2008. David Thomas produced and the augmented version of Pere Ubu recorded it: Keith Moliné, Robert Wheeler, Michele Temple, Steve Mehlman, Sarah Jane Morris and Gagarin.

Podcast
Beginning June 16, and then every two weeks until Sept 22, a scene from the first half of the Radio Play of "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" (Version 2) will be podcast free at www.hearpen.com.

And so it begins:
The first tour date in support of "Long Live Père Ubu!" is at London's ICA on Friday, Sept 25. Other dates will follow in Europe.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 

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"To mark the one year anniversary of hearpen.com we are providing a free track from the yet-to-be-released original cast recording of Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi. The song is "March Of Greed" and it can be downloaded here.


** Also this month, in line with our policy of ever fixing things, we are offering a free update to people who have already purchased The Accordion Club. You should receive an email notification. If not please contact the hearpen.com administrator. We located a better recording of the band and have supplemented it. **


Our December release is a spoken word performance by David Thomas, Ghost Line Diary."
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Monday, November 03, 2008 

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Get the first glimpse of the animation from "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" (unless you were at the QEH in April) and hear the first track from the album on YouTube. The animation by The Brothers Quay was projected wide-screen, and impressively large, on the back wall of the stage as Pere Ubu performed "March Of Greed" and action took place on stage.

 


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Monday, October 06, 2008 

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hearpen.com
Cooking Vinyl has kindly allowed hearpen.com to offer top quality MP3 downloads of the Dub Housing 2008 remaster (see below). It will become available in November. We prefer you buy the cd but recognize there's also a demand for the download. If you are unfamiliar with the hearpen.com site be aware that not only is it the only source for a range of live recordings, it also offers the best quality audio downloads of Pere Ubu (and related) recordings. If you are in the market for an Ubu Projex-related download this should be your first stop. Not only does your money go directly to the bands involved, but you are also assured of the best quality audio reproduction possible. There is a new release monthly (usually on the first Tuesday). Downloadable artwork is offered on all releases since August and we are gradually moving all album releases possible to the site.

Dub Housing
Cooking Vinyl releases a re-mastered issue of Pere Ubu's second album, Dub Housing, on November 17 2008, the 30th anniversary of its first release.

The original 2-track quarter-inch analog mix tape was baked in an oven to dry it out and re-digitized at 192hz / 24 bit resolution, the best quality resolution currently available. The detailing is significantly improved. The result was then mastered for cd audio in the control room in which it was recorded and mixed in 1978. The text "2008 Master" located on the tray card identifies the reissue.

Earlier this year Cooking Vinyl issued a similarly re-digitized and mastered version of The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu's first album, released in February 1978. It can be identified by the text "2005 Master" on the tray card.

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Monday, March 03, 2008 

 

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Jim Jones died of a heart attack at his home in Cleveland on Monday, February 18. He was 57.

Mike DeCapite has posted a tribute.

A memorial for Jim is planned for March 9 at the Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, from 5pm-8pm. The telephone is (216) 383-1124. Details are still sketchy but there will be no bands - just a dignified remembrance.
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Monday, December 17, 2007 

 

 

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On December 11 hearpen.com went on line. It is a web site dedicated to sales of Ubu and Ubu-related downloads. We will offer live recordings from across the decades, going all the way back to the Pirate's Cove days. As well there will be, from time to time, studio recordings that for one reason or another were not deemed "worthy" of a commercial release or that have become unavailable through commercial channels. Video offerings are planned. We have hesitated to get involved in the download marketplace. We did not want to cede control of our productivity to others. Still, times change. The market changes. And though we do not (change) it's better that something of quality be heard than not heard, seen than not seen. We will therefore own and operate the download site ourselves ensuring editorial control and that musicians get paid. In any case there is a full-ish explanation of the aesthetic and technical issues involved. The site is run in conjunction with Smog Veil Records. They are Clevelanders.

Among the highlights of the initial release is Turpentine, a previously unreleased Pere Ubu recording.

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