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‘DANSEPARC’
REISSUED!
NEW ALBUM ‘DELICATE’ NEARING COMPLETION!
June 6, 2008
‘DANSEPARC’ REISSUED BY MUFFIN MUSIC JUNE 25TH AND CHERRY
RED RECORDS IN THE UK AUGUST 4TH
After 25 years since its original release in 1983, the wait for
the reissue of Danseparc is over! Stockhausen collides with punk
funk in an aural collage of rhythm and found sound as one of the
most sought after MatM recordings is reissued on the 25th anniversary
of its 1983 debut on vinyl. The second of three albums co-produced
with Daniel Lanois with a guest appearance from John Oswald of Plunderphonics
fame on alto sax. Includes Obedience, World Without Borders, Walking
Into Walls, Danseparc, Sins Of Children, Several Styles Of Blonde
Girls Dancing, Boys In The Bushes, What People Do For Fun and Whatever
Happened To Radio Valve Road?
3 additional bonus tracks include the original extended dance version
of Danseparc, These Dangerous Machines and a live version of Sins
Of Children from MatM’s performance at Ontario Place in 1983
featuring avant-guitarist Michael Brook. The 16 page booklet includes
lyrics, never seen before photos and video stills.
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"Danseparc…is an impressive
attempt to put full-fledged philosophical concepts into a popular
music form, and a giant step forward for the band that has continually
proved itself one of the most forward thinking in Canadian pop music."
- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL, February 26, 1983
"…Danseparc…is simply one of the most satisfying
albums of the year…From the evocative, Vaseline-lens treatment
of the title cut to Walking Into Walls' classic '80s dialogue to Johnson's
wry commentary on What People Do For Fun, the group addresses rarely-mined
contemporary topics with disarming precision and unassailable musicality."
- Alan Kellogg, EDMONTON JOURNAL, April 7, 1983
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"Every once
in a while an album is released that is void of pretense, sparked
with an effervescent originality, injected with real power, true
emotion and sarcastic intelligence, bursting at its seams with thumping
atomic energy…Danseparc…is such an album."
- Gorman Belhard, WATERBURY AMERICAN, June 9, 1983
"Plenty of great noise abounding here, especially on the aptly
titled ‘Obedience’ and the bongo-driven ‘Boys
In The Bushes’…’I am using you, am I amusing you?’,
coos the cucumberly Ms. Martha while keyboards swirl, guitars scratch
and guest saxophones wail all around..."
- CREEM MAGAZINE, Sept. 1983
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‘PARCTALK - A ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION ABOUT DANSEPARC’
Concurrent with the reissue of Danseparc is Parctalk, a promotional
interview with Mark Gane and Martha Johnson, recorded in 1983 to
help introduce the album Danseparc to radio stations. As was typical
at the time, the interviewer’s questions were edited out,
leaving only the artists’ answers which were pressed as a
limited number of vinyl LPs. These LPs, along with a list of the
original questions, were distributed as free promotional material
to selected radio stations. DJs then recorded themselves asking
the questions and edited them back into the conversation with the
artists’ pre-recorded answers - making the interview sound
as though it were done especially for that particular station.
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At some point, the master list
of questions was lost while the original tape recording remained in
storage until now. 25 years after this interview was recorded, the
only surviving part of the conversation are the replies to questions
that now no longer exist. You can still find out about the ideas and
philosophy behind the music as well as insights into collaborating
with Daniel Lanois and members of the band, even without the questions!
Includes a bonus track of a 1983 unreleased version of Danseparc mixed
by Daniel Lanois. At this time, Parctalk is a limited edition release
available only from Muffin Music!
ORDER ‘PARCTALK’ from MUFFIN
MUSIC NOW!
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‘DELICATE’ NEARING COMPLETION
The first new MatM studio album in 16 years, Delicate, has taken
longer to record than planned, but is finally nearing the mixing
stage. Renowned producer David Bottrill (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson,Tool),
will be mixing it with the band in the early autumn with a tentative
release date sometime in Oct/Nov. 2008. After more than two and
a half years of writing and recording, MatM are very excited about
the album and hope you will be too.
OTHER NEWS…
Updated website and more online merchandise ordering options coming
soon.
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