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- Marco Polo: The City of Kin-Sai
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- From the Life of King John
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History and Geography by Home and Garden
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fave it Experimental | 80's Rock
18 tracks | 74 minutes
Released Mar 2006
on Exit Stencil Recordings LLC
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:15 Marco Polo: The Voyage lyrics FREE 03:15 Marco Polo: The Voyage lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:15 Marco Polo: The Voyage
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:53 Marco Polo: The City of Kin-Sai lyrics BUY MP3 05:53 Marco Polo: The City of Kin-Sai lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:53 Marco Polo: The City of Kin-Sai
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Holiday lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Holiday lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Holiday
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:23 Monkey Town lyrics BUY MP3 04:23 Monkey Town lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:23 Monkey Town
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:38 Big Winter lyrics BUY MP3 02:38 Big Winter lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:38 Big Winter
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:26 King Penguin lyrics BUY MP3 03:26 King Penguin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:26 King Penguin
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Birthday lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Birthday lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Birthday
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Marco Polo: The Desert lyrics BUY MP3 03:48 Marco Polo: The Desert lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Marco Polo: The Desert
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Geography lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 Geography lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Geography
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Para Uds. lyrics BUY MP3 03:11 Para Uds. lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Para Uds.
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Prairie Sailors lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 Prairie Sailors lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Prairie Sailors
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:01 Jazz lyrics BUY MP3 07:01 Jazz lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:01 Jazz
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Does This Belong to You? lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 Does This Belong to You? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Does This Belong to You?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:12 How I Spent My Vacation lyrics BUY MP3 07:12 How I Spent My Vacation lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:12 How I Spent My Vacation
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:25 (please) Fix My Horn (my brakes don't work) lyrics BUY MP3 03:25 (please) Fix My Horn (my brakes don't work) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:25 (please) Fix My Horn (my brakes don't work)
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The remix captures the music in perfect 20/20 hindsight - Cleveland experimental rock from the early eighties. Pere Ubu fans are in for a treat. "Imagine literate. Imagine beautiful. Imagine real damn good."
Editorial review
As a musical journey, these "post-Pere Ubu" episodes from drummer Scott Krauss and bassist Tony Maimone -- both multi-instrumentalists here -- and the man who would become a latter-day Pere Ubu guitarist, Jim Jones, are a delicious blend of sound and innovation. Conspicuous in its absence is the Dave Thomas voice from the dark cosmos, replaced by a John Cale-ish drawl from vocalist Jeff Morrison. "Monkey Town" is discordant fun and games while "From the Life of King John" is the lost art of new wave searching for its Sky Saxon roots. For those bored with the elitist and overblown music of Mission of Burma, these soldiers are the real deal on this collection of magic restored and enhanced for the new millennium. The 75 minutes of sound and music here are nonstop relentless entertainment. The 18 tracks are so all over the map that it is hard to get a grasp on what is taking place, which works well for repeated spins -- and perhaps the random avant-garde car alarm going off outside your house (if you're so lucky) while this disc is spinning. "Marco Polo: The City of Kin-Sai" is just one such exploration, taking the Velvet Underground's riff from "Lady Godiva's Operation" and bringing it up a notch. On this delightful set of complex minimal music that is inviting and satisfying, Exit Stencil Recordings also includes the How I Spent My Vacation EP and other goodies. History and Geography is a revelation that unveils new secrets every time it is played, the kind of homework high-school teachers ought to seriously consider assigning to their students. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Home and Garden was formed out of an early break-up of the legendary Cleveland group Pere Ubu. The band consisted of core-Ubu members Scott Krauss and Tony Maimone, along with future Pere Ubu and Electric Eels alumnus Jim Jones. The group was fronted by lyricist Jeff Morrison.
Scott, Tony and Jim were long-time members of Pere Ubu: as an original Ubu member, Scott played on all of the early recordings, and on and off through the early 90's. Scott and Tony played together on The Modern Dance, Dub Housing, New Picnic Time, and Art of Walking. Jim Jones joined Ubu in 1987 performing with Scott and Tony on Tenement Year, Cloundland, Worlds in Collision, and Story of My Life. All three also performed with various versions of Ubu independently.
Scott and Ryan Weitzel started collecting the master tapes and remixing the album at the Exit Stencil Recording studios in the spring of 2005. The project was completed at Suma with Paul Hamann later that fall.
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