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RES143CD
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01/06/2001
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Resurgence
Peter Blegvad & Jakko
Choices Under Pressure
Disc 1
1. Waste Of Time 2. The Unborn Byron 3. Daughter 4. Let's Travel Light 5. Meantime 6. Scarred For Life 7. King Strut 8. That'll Be Him Now 9. Haiku 10. Gold 11. God Detector 12. Gigantic Eye Peter Blegvad formed Slapp Happy with Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore in 1971. A witty and eccentric act, they soon became cult favourites in avant garde circles, working with Faust and Henry Cow.
They recorded several albums for Virgin and found themselves respected by Robert Wyatt, John Peel and an influential section of the music press.
Once the band split in 1975, each of them embarked on various collaborations and solo projects.
Blegvad collaborated with Faust, John Greaves, Andy Partridge and The Golden Palominos, releasing the critically acclaimed " King Strut & Other Stories " on Silvertone in 1990.
The following year saw him start his very successful cartoon strip " Leviathan " in the Independent On Sunday newspaper.
Choices is an acoustic retrospective of some of Peter's finest songs and includes two unreleased tracks written with Andy Partridge.
Featured musicians include Jakko, John Greaves and Danny Thompson.
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Reviews
If a central tenet of surrealism is the juxtaposition of disparate but commonplace ideas, Peter Blegvad is a casual surrealist in spades. This career retrospective is a re-recorded series of slightly quirky, irreverently approached but more or less conventional takes on blues, country or bubbling pop songs. Playing off these are lyrics with either simply bizarre topics told in simple terms or more conventional stories employing dramatic metaphors or images to powerful effect, Blegvad uses surrealism as an outlook, a casual tool; sometimes overt, sometimes just an underlying state of mind informing the lyrics, showing through between the lines.
On the one extreme we have 'Inside a giant Eye', 'God Detector', 'Byron as an Embryo' or the exhortation to Astral Travel told in a late night lounge jazz-blues croon 'Let's Travel Light'. On the other, the touching 'Daughter' ('Everytime she blinks/She strikes somebody blind') or 'Scarred for Life' ('Leave me something to remember you by/More than a lock of your hair/Leave me scarred for life/Show you really care'). As with Blegvad's astounding newspaper cartoon 'Leviathan', reputedly Simpsons creator Matt Groening's favourite, the songs are highly literate
