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Artist:	15-60-75 (THE NUMBERS BAND)
Title:	Jimmy Bell's Still in Town
Label:	HEARPEN
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	HR 112CD

"'For 30 years, in a small town 40 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, The Numbers Band have kept the blues alive. Where the guardians of the form starved it of innovation, 15-60-75 nurtured abstract evolution. Where the priests of Budweiser Blues droned old catechisms by rote, 15-60-75 aspired to vision. They play blues reimbued with meaning, purged and purified by flame, shorn of every superfluous moment, sound or word. Because their songs are compiled across a series of markers -- words, sounds, phrases and pauses -- they don't count measures and can't outline the structure of their own songs to an outsider. For the blues, a form routinely approached as a compendium of formulas, this is startling, and it means that any change of personnel necessitates months of not just relearning but rewriting every song. It is a methodology from another planet -- Don Van Vliet and Sun Ra come to mind. It is form dedicated to vision.' -- Dave Thomas, Pere Ubu. Morphius, along with Hearpen Records is proud to re-issue the seminal live recording and debut album Jimmy Bell's Still in Town, taped in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, a true document of pure blues innovation and spirited performance that encapsulates the essence of the Numbers Band sound and style."

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."

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