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Cromagnon

Orgasm

Format: LP

Record Label: Rotorelief

Condition: New (I removed the plastic, took pictures, which you can see above, put a plastic sleeve on it and separated the record to prevent seam splits during shipping)

* Reissue - limited, numbered edition of 777 copies on silver and black swirled vinyl (this copy is #67) - heavy duty silver-chromium gatefold sleeve
* Certainly one of the weirdest experimental psychedelic albums out there, with noise and industrial moments, first released by legendary free jazz label ESP-Disk' in 1969. An absolute psychedelic UFO of proto-industrial noise, with a pioneering touch of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Whitehouse, and Test Dept mixed with something fully stoned... way ahead of its time in the '60s. Remastered with the same real rough sound and the same feeling sought at the time, but with more volume added.
* Two frustrated pop songwriters and the mysterious seven-person "Connecticut Tribe" hole up in an Upper West Side studio and yell and moan and convulse until they discover a place more primordial than hardcore. The lone album from Cromagnon is true body music - mostly a primal outpouring of wet swallows, warm gulps, creepy whispers, and glottal jungle animal noises; the feral yowls of sex, pain, or warfare - but also occasionally grabbing people in the hallways to bang broomsticks on plywood. Its seven-minute bouts of throat'n'throttle anticipate the howl-and-hertz of power electronics and the full-contact gargle of '90s Japanese noise. But Orgasm's real claim to fame will always be opening track "Caledonia," a throbbing bagpipe-and-trash junkyard clangbanger that anticipates Einstürzende Neubauten, Nine Inch Nails, and Ministry in four raspy, thudding minutes. (Christopher R. Weingarten)
* An aural stew of experimental vocal sounds (tribal chanting, eerie whispering, animal-like screeching, monster sounding growls, ghostly howls, outright screaming, violent puking sounds, etc), various effects (over-dubbed sound bites played backwards, old sirens, common household sounds, manipulated electronics, field recordings) and the occasional use of a conventional instrument (spooky bagpipes, frantic rhythm guitar, scratchy fiddle) that are all meshed and held together with various forms of primitive percussion. A couple tracks have no rhythm instruments and are simply gravity defying acts of freeform music. Surprisingly, after being subjected to over 30 minutes of unintelligible voices, Cromagnon finally reap the benefits of evolution and use coherent words from the English language on the final two songs on the album. Cromagnon is ominous and experimental tribal music for the bad acid trip. (J. Scott Brubig)
* Austin Grasmere & Brian Elliot with Connecticut Tribe: Peter Bennett / Jimmy Bennett / Vinnie Howley / Sal Salgado / Nelle Tresselt / Mark Payuk / Gary Leslie
* Track Listing: Caledonia / Ritual Fest Of The Libido / Organic Sundown / Fantasy / Crow Of The Black Tree / Genitalia / Toth, Scribe 1 / First World Of Bronze