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Foetus Under Glass – Spite Your Face & You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath – Wash It All Off

Posted on March 29, 2009 by cranio

Jim Thirlwell moved from his native Australia to London in 1978. At the outset of his musical embarkation he rejected the format of “rock band” as too constraining for his personal vision, and shot swiftly beyond to a liberating solitude to craft his ideas. Thirwell set about devising and compiling a unique vocabulary of sounds and instrumental juxtapositions with which he alchemizes his conceptions. The first FOETUS release, “Spite Your Face” appeared in January 1981 on Thirwell’s own SELF IMMOLATION label. Over the next two years SELF IMMOLATION embarked on a punishing release schedule, issuing two more seven inches, a twelve inch EP and two LPs, “DEAF” and “ACHE”. The name FOETUS remains a constant, but the bloodline is carried through the various siblings: FOETUS UNDER GLASS, FOETUS OVER FRISCO, PHILLIP & HIS FOETUS VIBRATIONS, YOU’VE GOT FOETUS ON YOUR BREATH. The altering egos signify further liberation from the borehorse/barcode many band names become, and embody a fluid mobility of emphasis and intent exemplified in the individual songs themselves. These earliest FOETUS recordings inject syncopated dance rhythms with frenetic, furious energy and cryptic verbal parrying that stimulates intellect, imagination and body. Inspired by a gamut of sources, FOETUS concocted dizzying mixes of sounds and images. In 1981′s ‘Wash It All Off” (rerecorded and re-released in 1985) the man war whoops “SUPERCALAFRAGALISTICSADOMASOCHISM” against what sounds like the Merrie Melodies theme afflicted with dementia praecox. FOETUS staked out uncharted musical territory with arresting personality. OKFM and Wash It All Off where re-released on “Sink” in a edited and shortend versions.

Foetus Under Glass – Spite Your Face 7″

(Self Immolation WOMB S201 – 1981)

Tracks:

  1. Spite Your Face
  2. OKFM

You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath – Wash It All Off 7″

(Self Immolation WOMB ALL007 – 1981)

Tracks:

  1. Wash It All Off
  2. 333

Links removed upon request as they will be re-issued on CD.

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Various – An Afflicted Man’s Musica Box

Posted on December 4, 2006 by cranio

An Afflicted Man's Musica Box

Considered as one of the best U.D. compilations and Steven Stapleton’s favorite U.D. release, An Afflicted Man’s reads like a sampler from the NWW list. Featuring : Foetus In Your Bed, Operating Theatre ( Roger Doyle), and Steve’s krautrock faves Anima, it’s highlights include a triumphant, shortwave drenched roar from AMM (who let Steve choose a piece from their enormous backlog of tapes), the massed orchestral march of Jacques Berrocal’s “Conseil Des Ministries,” and the ominous drift of Nurse With Wound’s “I Was No Longer His Dominant”. In other words an excellent modern classical, industrial, abstract, experimental compilation. An Afflicted Man’s Musica Box came out on United Dairies ( UD 012) in 1982 under 3 different covers, limited to a total of 1500 copies (not to speak of the 2 tape releases).

Tracks:

  1. Jac Berrocal – Conseil Des Ministres
  2. Anima – Violin Fuchshorn
  3. Anima – Fuchsharp Percussion
  4. Anima – Piano Fuchsbaß Percussion
  5. Foetus In Your Bed – Primordial Industry
  6. Foetus In Your Bed – Industrial Go Slow
  7. AMM – Commonwealth Institute 20-4-67
  8. Nurse With Wound – I Was No Longer His Dominant
  9. Operating Theatre – In The Neck

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