DEVO

LP

Miracle Witness (Live In Ohio 1977)

Limited Edition RED SPARKLE Vinyl

2014 UK indies only RED Vinyl Album

LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 ONLY

+ PROMO INFO SHEET

180 Gram Vinyl +  DOWNLOAD

In 1977 DEVO played an intimate show to an eager handful at biker bar turned total dive The Eagle Street Saloon in Cleveland, Ohio. Unbeknown to those canny onlookers, they were to testify to the healing power of DEVO! But what of us now? Beautiful mutants fear not, FUTURISMO are here to rectify your late party syndrome. Televised through the antennas of time we give you DEVOs’ most intimate unreleased live record ever - Miracle Witness Hour!

 

Released for the first time on any format, this remastered document of de-evolution is finally given the attention it truly deserves. A rare glimpse into the embryonic stages of the groundbreaking band way before the masses knew how to ‘whip-it good’, the Miracle Witness Hour boasts primal versions of the bands most recalled avant-pop songs such as ‘Jocko Homo’ and ‘Mongoloid’ moments before Brian Eno got his hands on them, juxtaposed against some of their rarer experimental gems. Seemingly fitting for the kind of off the wall experience that would have DEVO’s dehumanised art house sci-fi set against the backdrop of Eagle Streets’ dingy and ruptured old world interior.

Synonymous with innovative ideology, it was only a few months later that David Bowie would declare them “the band of the future!” but it was at the Miracle Witness Hour that DEVO were already proving that the future was already happening. Like surrealist preachers transmitting a challenge to the preconceptions of pop music, it’s the playful live imperfections in this recording that genuinely make the Miracle Witness Hour an original and intimate experience - so intimate that you can make out individual handclaps of the sparse crowd.

This FUTURISMO release revitalises this event with exciting artwork and packaging that enforces the bands forward thinking approach to the aesthetics that shaped the following decade. The outer sleeve comes die-cut revealing the box-fold reversible cover inner sleeve, containing a second sleeve and housing rare images as well as brand new liner notes by DEVO founding member Gerald Casale.

The vinyl comes on heavyweight 180g coloured vinyl with free download.*

This is a pre-sell, and mails out on release - on or around 1st December.

** Shade of Red may vary from the on-screen image

Tracks -

A1 - Be Stiff

A2 - Uncontrollable Urge

A3 - Mongoloid

A4 - Timing X Soo Bawls

A5 - Polyvinyl Chloride

B1 - Jocko Homo

B2 - Huboon Stomp

B3 - Praying Hands B4 - Secret Agent Man

B5 - Smart Patrol Mr. DNA

 

Condition - MINT / UNPLAYED (SEALED)

Date – 2014

Cat. Number – FUTNO2B

 

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