Cramps Records - S/D

best cosmically-weird-translated-into-english liner notes ever

consistent

Costin Miereanu - "Luna Cinese"

I agree with Milton - those albums are all 100% outstanding, though I haven't heard the Fernando Grillo. What is that like?

I have to add Walter Marchetti: "Natura Morta" to the list, though I have a weakness for slow, one-note-at-a-time, album-length piano solos.

Fernando Grillo was the contrabass player who comissioned Iancu Dumitrescu's "Medium III". Fields of sources, swarming overtones, bizarrely intoned insect melodies

http://www.fernandogrillo.net/nuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15

need to hear that Marchetti. I found the Miereanu mp3's at Insect and Individual Silenced, it's interesting

http://www.italianprog.com/l_cramps.htm

there was a Cramps website up a few years ago that was so tantalizing, making it look like the entire catalog was in print, but friends said that they could never place orders on it. maddening that Get Back! didn't stick to putting the remaining titles out and that Dawson had a falling out with the ampersand guy to discontinue that series. that said, i really recommend the Giusto Pio Motore Immobile and the Vaggione one.
the Juan Hidalgo i wasn't so hot on (tho the cover is hawt) and the side of the Marchetti record sid mentions is too slow and plinky for me. better is the second side, which anticipates Merzbow with some fine fuckin' noise-roar.
and i thanked the gods for i&i putting up that Costin Miernau record, just wished that site hadn't puttered out so quick. anyhow, the ambient side of Luna Cinese somehow makes Spaghetti Western whistling go with intermittent vibraphone clunk and a hum not unlike that No-Neck Ass Run record. still a favorite.

Eugenio Finardi's 'Sugo' (1976) and 'Diesel' (1976) are wonderful, and they have the bassist from Area (at least Diesel does).

Alberto Camerini's 'Cenerentola' (1976) and 'Gelato Metropolitano' (1977) are quite similar to Finardi, and also great.

Lately I've been going through their list in search of more. Only recently did I figure out to look up the record label...I was so excited when I discovered that they put out all my favorite Italian artists!

I'm a bit surprised they didn't put out Franco Battiato...the 'Pollution' cover art seems to fit with the Cramps art style.

Hate to break the winning run but I've got "Cheap Imitation" by John Cage on Cramps Records and it's fucking terrible

Looks like that one belongs to the Nova Musicha series, so let's not count it!

I don't know what you guys are talking about, Psychedelic Jungle is the best Cramps record, and forget about everything after A Date With Elvis...

>I'm a bit surprised they didn't put out Franco Battiato...the 'Pollution' cover art seems to fit with the Cramps art style.

they did put out his pal Giusto Pio's first record, which I'd forgotten was on Cramps. that is one beautiful record, though the first time I heard it I didn't think there was enough there.

grumpydadaismus, always grumpydadaismus

(I don't have too much time for that Cage piece either)

Bad music for bad people.