RED CRAYOLA Wives In Orbit Orig UK 7" Post Punk Psych

	£		20
	$		26

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THE RED CRAYOLA

Wives In Orbit

Original UK 7" single released on Radar Records in 1978. Comes in a picture sleeve. Red Vinyl.

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One of the longest-lived underground rock groups (if not the longest-lived), the Red Krayola lasted through the birth pangs of psychedelia past the death throes of post-punk. The one constant in its ever-shifting lineup was principal singer/songwriter/visionary Mayo Thompson, who seemed as concerned with deconstructing the language of "rock" music as with actually expressing himself within it. That made the Red Krayola's catalogue challenging, often difficult listening. Its saving grace was the quirky charm of Thompson's songs and vocals, with a whimsical humour and open-mindedness rather atypical of avant rock.

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Mayo Thompson continued to make music, both under his own name and as The Red Crayola (reverting to the original name for Europe). He teamed up with American drummer Jesse Chamberlain and recorded the single 'Wives in Orbit' and the album Soldier Talk both of which could be seen as musical responses to punk rock. His collaborations in the 1970s and 1980s read like a roll call of the avant-garde and experimental artists and musicians of the era. The Red Crayola teamed up with the British-American Conceptual Art collective Art & Language, who Thompson described as the the baddest b***ards on the block, for three LPs: 1976's Corrected Slogans, 1981's Kangaroo? (also featuring The Raincoats' Gina Birch, Lora Logic and Swell Maps' Epic Soundtracks) and 1983's Black Snakes. Thompson joined Pere Ubu for a period in the early 1980s, performing on a couple of releases, and provided soundtrack music for Derek Jarman. Throughout this time he was prolific as a producer for many other seminal experimental and alternative rock acts, including The Fall (1980's Grotesque (After the Gramme)), The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Blue Orchids, Cabaret Voltaire, Stiff Little Fingers, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, The Chills and Primal Scream.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

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Side Two

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Released on 'Radar Records' in 1978

Catalogue No. ADA 22

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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