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Artist:	COMMISSARIS HJULER EN MAMA BEER
Title:	Mensen Die "Kort Staan" Voor de Zelfdoding
Label:	ULTRA ECZEMA (BELGIUM)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	UE 044LP

"'Please translate all the titles and our names in Flemmish,' Kommissar Hjuler asked me for this record. This record continues the German couple's satirical approach to Fluxus, Dada, outsider art, whatever u wanna call it. Kommissar Hjuler is a police officer from a small village in Germany, Flensburg, where he lives and works with his younger wife, Mama Bär and their kids. Mama Bär is a full time painter. The Kommissar only started making music when he was already in his thirtees, heavily influenced by the strange music he had been collecting since the age of 16. Almost all of their music got released on their own SHMF imprint, mostly limited to less then 20 copies and always packed in handmade collages, paintings or even giant puppets or garbage melted together. They've done a bunch of collabs with greats like Rudolf Eb-Er and Jan Iwers. This LP includes three long tracks; a hysterical cover version of Suicides' 'Frankie Teardrop,' a piece about the Bronx (with some guest vocals of their kid crying) and a side-long screaming argument between a granddad and a kid which sounds so painfully loud and 'German' that every touring band will want to skip Germany in the near future. This record gives you a pretty good introduction of what they're all about. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bär's way of working reminds me of people like Bobby Colombo, Scott Foust, Rudolf Eb-Er or even Gil J Wolman. It's the last one in the Ultra Eczema 6-panel fold out cover series, limited to 300 copies."

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