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01. The Curators - Turn On
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02. The Curators - White Cat Heat
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03. The Curators - Na Na Naa
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04. The Curators - Elevem
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05. The Curators - 1+1=?
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06. The Curators - Lay in the Sun
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07. The Curators - Squeak
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08. The Curators - Godz
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09. The Curators - May You Never Be Alone
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ARTIST
CURATORS, THE
TITLE
Contact High with The Curators
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
EDITION TELEMARK
CATALOG #
ET 938-01LP
ET 938-01LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/29/2024
Unbeknownst to the general public at the time and underappreciated until today, arguably the world's first punk record was recorded on September 28, 1966, in New York. On that day,
The Godz
got together to record their first album
Contact High with The Godz
in about 30 minutes, to be released on the avant-garde label ESP. It comprises eight rudimentary songs (plus one bizarre
Hank Williams
cover), played without prior rehearsals or repeats, sounding deliberately incompetent and completely lacking even the political undertones or avant-garde ambitions of other far-out music produced in New York at the same time. In 2008, Berlin-based musician and journalist
Jacek Slaski
met ESP owner
Bernard Stollman
in New York and learned the story behind the Godz' first album. He decided to trace and re-enact that historical moment and got together his band
The Curators
to perform a note-by-note replay of
Contact High with The Godz
. Again, without rehearsals or repeats. They set up (without audience) in the Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin on November 30, 2008, began by listening to the first Godz song, repeating it, then the next, then the next. The resulting first derivative of the original album was duly titled
Contact High with The Curators
and is finally released here after having laid around on external hard drives for 15 years. Edition of 200 with insert containing liner notes, and a beautiful sleeve design by
Nathan D'Arcy
. The Curators were formed in Berlin in 2007 by architect
Anna Krenz
and writer Jacek Slaski, who at the time ran the art space ZERO, and were joined by camera operator
Patrick Classen
. All three are non-educated and non-professional musicians. The Curators played in different venues in Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna and Warsaw, and the band was dissolved around 2011. For this album, they were joined by songwriter and singer
Doc Schoko
.
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