K.Leimer - Recordings 1977-80 2LP xx2002 somewhere between satire and accusation

somewhere between satire and accusation

This album was released only on CD and only in Australia

Something about proficient musicians playing angular and arty post-punk didn’t immediately click with me (perhaps I was suffering from a particularly strong case of Dolewave fever at the time

this is a record that sounds both huge and claustrophobic at once

steeped in the hushed atmosphere of the best Vuh records (if not exactly the sound)

K.Leimer - Recordings 1977-80 2LP xx2002 somewhere between satire and accusationLeimer's first two tape recordings are included and were released on Robert Carlberg's Anode Productions in 1978 and '79 (Translucent Memory and Natural History The Mind and Its Likeness). The set also includes material from the 1983 cassette Installation View. As Leimer himself offers: "It's best to consider these recordings as a homage to much admired and deeply loved music of the time; to consider these recordings as the artifacts of lessons being