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fave it Kraut Rock | Experimental Rock
12 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Jun 2008
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 Motor Cycle Au Pair Boy lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 Motor Cycle Au Pair Boy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 Motor Cycle Au Pair Boy
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Anglezarke lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Anglezarke lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Anglezarke
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 I Rue the Day I Went to Bratislava lyrics BUY MP3 02:09 I Rue the Day I Went to Bratislava lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:09 I Rue the Day I Went to Bratislava
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:53 Melamine lyrics BUY MP3 02:53 Melamine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:53 Melamine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Upside-down & Dirty lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Upside-down & Dirty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Upside-down & Dirty
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Post-rock surrealism meets Krautrock meets downright Northern English stupidity, a fascinating and sometimes scary world where you wander through someone elses dreams and nightmares, funny and frightening in different places.
Bio / Background
Big Block 454 is a semi-amorphous post-modern / situationist neo-dada cross-platform compositional construct from Manchester, England (featuring people from Liverpool, Leeds and Lincolnshire).
Over the years, Big Block 454 have unleashed a series of albums and multi-media happenings upon an unsuspecting public, combining influences such as Faust, Can, Brian Eno, The Residents, the Bonzo Dog Band, King Crimson and the BBC Radiophonics Workshop - surrealism meets Krautrock meets downright Northern stupidity. We play whatever we bloody well like, alright?
Big Block 454 have worked on multi-media projects with famed dada artist Russell Mills, and have been championed by such people as the BBC's Stuart Maconie and Sunday Times writer/comedian Stewart Lee.
Big Block 454 have guested on Stuart Maconie's BBC 6 Music radio show The Freak Zone. Stuart said, after playing "I name this child Acker Bilk", "we're all pretty much agreed here that that was genius... terrific stuff.
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Reviewers have said :
"this excellent album / outrageously funky / moments of real beauty / strange humour. "
"brilliant arrangements, well engineered... humbling, really, and very imaginative as well."
"ethereal, stripped down beauty / sublime trippy ambient loveliness / owls quarrelling in a bicycle factory / the music sounds as if Fela Kuti has been taken hostage by a convention of table tennis enthusiasts / a great release and one you should hunt down without delay."
"fascinating and sometimes scary world / wander through someone elses dreams and nightmares, funny and frightening ... uneasy listening, sub-genre fractured genius."
An American fan said:
"I will treasure the experience of hearing Big Block 454 for a very long time. Actually, I'm not quite sure the effects will ever wear off. What I felt was on the same level of intensity as my first read of Naked Lunch, my first view of Eraserhead or the time my music professor played Bartok on a Steinway baby in our classroom with tears in his eyes."
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