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01. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Casablanca Moon
02. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Me And Paravati
03. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Mr. Rainbow
04. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Michelangelo
05. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - The Drum
06. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - A Little Something
07. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - The Secret
08. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Dawn
09. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Half-Way There
10. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Charlie 'N Charlie
11. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Slow Moon's Rose
12. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Everybody's Slimmin'
13. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Blue Eyed William
14. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Karen
15. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Messages
ARTIST
TITLE
Acnalbasac Noom
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 356CD TR 356CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2016

Tapete present a reissue of Slapp Happy's Acnalbasac Noom, originally released in 1980. Left-wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck, who had good connections to Polydor, had set up his own studio in rural Wümme, disrupting the mainstream with pioneering sounds by the likes of Faust, inventively engineered by the "boffin's boffin", Kurt Graupner. By the time Anthony Moore, one of Nettelbeck's charges, approached his third album in 1972, Polydor's accounting department was fast losing patience with all that experimentalism. So Nettelbeck suggested to Moore that he might write some straight songs (relatively speaking), which in turn prompted Moore to invite his old school friend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy. Dagmar Krause, a young singer from Hamburg and Moore's girlfriend, joined them both on their trip to Wümme to record what was to become Sort Of (TR 355CD/LP), using Faust as a backing band. A second album emerged, eschewing, even more clearly than the Sort Of, the heavy rock idioms of the era for an anti-macho playfulness that presaged the sparseness of post punk and the dry jangle of early indie. Nonetheless, Polydor pulled the plug, and Uwe Nettelbeck signed Faust and Slapp Happy over to Richard Branson's nascent Virgin imprint. At the Manor, they would rerecord their second album with UK musicians, bells and whistles for a 1974 release as Slapp Happy, burying the original version in the vaults not to reemerge until 1980 as Acnalbasac Noom. After being asked which version they prefer today, the band does not take long to choose: "For the more direct approach it would have to be Acnalbasac Noom. It had a naïve spontaneity to it. Naïve in the nicest sense of the word." CD version includes four bonus tracks and comes in an edition of 500.