Browse by Artist: PERE UBU

Artist:	PERE UBU
Title:	Song Of The Bailing Man
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	GET 090

"Originally released in 1982 by Rough Trade. Continuing in the spirit of The Art of Walking, this is a fine, occasionally wonderful record that sounds inspired, invigorating, confounding, disturbing. At this juncture Pere Ubu was more art and less rock, a brilliant band breaking every rule of aesthetics. David Thomas with Mayo Thompson (from Texas psychedelic legends Red Krayola), Anton Fier, Tony Maimone and Allen Ravenstine. Original artwork.180 gram HQ vinyl."

Artist:	PERE UBU
Title:	One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams
Label:	HEARPEN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	HR 117CD

"If there is a narrative thread to the eclectic art/punk mosaic that constitutes Pere Ubu, it is the vocal musings of legendary front man David Thomas. Throughout the long history of the band from it's proto-rise out of the back water industrial malaise of Cleveland Ohio in the mid seventies to later incarnations that included avant garde luminaries like Chris Cutler and Captain Beefheart refuge Eric Drew Feldman, Thomas has formed a synaptic core that drives the band's creative peregrinations. Originally released on Rough Trade records in 1989, the disc features high quality live recordings spanning the band's most prodigious period from 1978 through 1981. Burning through Ubu classics like 'Dub Housing' and 'Codex', Thomas adds spontaneously sweeping arrangements to now classic material as the band sticks to the loose but aggregate teleology that characterizes Pere Ubu at it's best."

Artist:	PERE UBU
Title:	Long Live Père Ubu!
Label:	HEARPEN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	HR 149CD

With Sarah Jane Morris. "Released by Hearthan, and exclusively marketed in North America by Smog Veil, Long Live Père Ubu! is the album of songs that was the genesis of the entire mess. It is a great leap forward in our pursuit of hyper-naturalistic recording techniques by which we replace microphones in the studio with wooden boxes, junked radio speakers, metal horns, and electrically charged window panes. Sound itself becomes the narrative. Everyone is going to hate it. We know that. The story, though satiric and comedic, is utterly bleak, lacking charm (the usual counter-weight to the band's noire tendencies) and devoid of redemption. Few people have ever read Ubu Roi, fewer heard of it. Wonderful. Altogether two years of work. Père Ubu, the character, ruined Jarry's life. And now he's ruined our career. This thing is our Waterloo, our Bridge Too Far, our Pickett's Charge. Well, somebody had to do it."

Artist:	PERE UBU
Title:	London Texas
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RER U01

"A missing piece of the Ubu jigsaw, and a fine memento of a great band, London Texas is a satisfyingly hi-fi live recording of the sadly short-lived line-up that toured briefly between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. Certainly it's the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section - though the whole band is on lean-back-intense concert form. Coming back to it, this was the end of a particular era, of a certain kind of band: the songs are economical and tightly arranged but harmonically elaborated -- with strongly performative and musical underpinning (there's a new aesthetic in place now); it's an approach that takes no prisoners. Then there's the bonus of that scary live energy. Studio recordings just can't do this. London Texas stings like a bee -- in a beret. Play it loud. Special mention -- guitarist Jim Jones; mind-bogglingly great. Recorded 1989; transcription and file mastering by David Thomas; edited by Chris Cutler; CD re-mastering by Bob Drake."

Artist:	PERE UBU
Title:	Why I Hate Women
Label:	SMOG VEIL
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SV 059CD

"Pere Ubu have really come out fighting with Why I Hate Women, racing towards all horizons at full tilt, pushing the experimental envelope further than ever, but also tightening up their trademark avant-punk attack. If St Arkansas saw them rooting around furtively in rock's darkest, dankest corners, on Why I Hate Women Ubu seem to illuminate these secret spaces with firework displays and thousand-watt searchlights. The rhythm section (Ubu's longest serving) of bassist Michele Temple and drummer Steve Mehlman is tauter and leaner than ever before. Robert Wheeler's bravura performance on vintage electronics has him coming over as rural Ohio's answer to Sun Ra, splattering analog synth and theremin all over the music with wild, visionary abandon. Guitarist (and newest recruit) Keith Moliné veers between wayward sonic expressionism and disciplined garage thrust. At the eye of the storm is singer David Thomas, a true rock maverick at the height of his powers. His vocal approach shows a startling new melodicism, a plaintive purity of expression that cuts through his familiar repertoire of radical voicings and techniques. Lyrically he manages to balance stormy obsessiveness with flashes of playful wit, refracting standard rock themes (love and obsession) through the looking glass of his boundless imagination."

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