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01. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Just A Conversation
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02. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Paradise Express
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03. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - I Got Evil
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04. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Little Girl's World
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05. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Tutankhamun
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06. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Mono Plane
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07. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Blue Flower
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08. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - I'm All Alone
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09. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Who's Gonna Help Me Now
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10. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Small Hands Of Stone
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11. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Sort Of
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12. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Heading For Kyoto
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13. SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST) - Jumping Jonah
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ARTIST
SLAPP HAPPY (WITH FAUST)
TITLE
Sort Of
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 355CD
TR 355CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2016
Tapete present a reissue of
Slapp Happy
's
Sort Of
, originally released in 1972. 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
, 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
(TR 356CD/LP). 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."
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