Laughing Afternoon, by Bourbonese Qualk

Laughing Afternoon

by Bourbonese Qualk

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Eric K One stop for your anarchopostpunk bliss: On-U dub x Cabs x Durutti Column. Favorite track: Idiot Pain.

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1.	God With Us 05:52	buy track
2.	Idiot Pain 03:29	buy track
3.	Barcelona Telephone Exchange 02:46	buy track
4.	Freefall 04:10	buy track
5.	Blood Orange Day 04:35	buy track
6.	Behind Closed Doors 02:21	buy track
7.	Qualk Street 02:09	buy track
8.	To Hell With The Consequences 03:14	buy track
9.	Building Jerusalem 03:39	buy track
10.	Feast Of Trumpets 00:15	buy track
11.	Virgin Ears Virgin Eyes 02:43	buy track
12.	Spanner In The Works 01:09	buy track
13.	Mystery Dance 06:45	buy track

about

Mannequin Records and Platform 23 come together to start a series of stand-alone reissues of the music of post-punk / industrialists Bourbonese Qualk, starting with their 1983 album Laughing Afternoon.

Formed in Southport during the late-70s, the band came to prominence out of South London’s squat scene via their own Recloose Organisation. Early releases including the band’s first experiments put to tape and the now highly sought after Sudden Departure compilation featuring luminaries Colin Potter, Eg Oblique Graph (Bryan Jones) and Lol Coxhill, laid the foundations of their burgeoning sound.

Recorded and produced at the Recloose Studios in Camberwell in 1983, Simon Crab, Julian Gilbert and Steven Tanza infused their music with politically charged atmospherics, instrumental exploration, heavily laden reverb and dub, all projected by drum machine rhythms to assemble a musical collage which encapsulated strands beyond contemporary music.

Track titles decipher little, as with the music, a discourse not belonging to a set style or movement, but crossing boundaries of supposition, pushing distortion and outernational leanings towards something else, a primordial discant.

While tape loops warp the ears and spoken vocals propel songs like Blood Orange Bargain Day and To Hell With The Consequences and contrasting guitar acoustics pierce the mood on Qualk Street and Spanner In The Works, the overall embrace is claustrophobic, embedding a foreboding for the times. This unique, indulgent, cross genre melting pot where pounding rhythms, wailing trumpets, mournful melodica and electronic pulses all spiral in a contagious dissonance that heralded Bourbonese Qualk to the wider world.

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released May 29, 2019

Simon Crab: Electronics and instruments.
Julian Gilbert: Voice and words
Steve Tanza: Drums

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