VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN BERLIN LP LIM.100-SCHIMPFLUCH-THROBBING GRISTLE-WHITEHOUSE
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VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN
LIVE IN BERLIN -Pic LP
Harbinger Sound
Limited edition: 100 copies
Limited edition of only 100 copies available at the 'Extreme Rituals' Schimpfluch Gruppe festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, on the night VDO performed as part of the 3 day event.
Some info on the release: Rare original issue, comes in a clear sleeve, with insert released in Uk on the great Harbinger Sound label (Ramleh, New Blockaders, Small Cruel Party, Smegma, Sudden Infant, Le Forte Four, Hijokaidan, Hair Police, Incapacitants, Hanatarash, etc.). Limited edition of 100 copies. A picture disc pressing of the Vagina Dentata Organ performance that was recorded live at NK, Berlin, on March 31, 2012. Released by UK label Harbinger Sound and made available at the Extreme Rituals Schimpfluch Gruppe festival which took place at the Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, on Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2012. The flip-side features a test-tone. Visually there are 15 tracks but the tone is continuous throughout the pressing, culminating in a locked groove repeating the tone without end.
Jordi Valls worked extensively with both Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse in their earliest incarnations, organising live events for both acts in London and Barcelona. In 1983 he released the first of a series of remarkable albums under the name of “Vagina Dentata Organ”. From the outset VDO’s work was characterised by a minimalistic and surreal approach to field recordings. His debut “Music For The Hashishins: In Memoriam Of Hasan Sabbah” evolved out of the recording sessions for Psychic TV’s classic “Dreams Less Sweet” album. Valls appropriated PTV’s recordings of growling wolves (which appear for a few minutes on “Dreams Less Sweet”) and subjected them to a minor amount of looping and treatment before releasing it as VDO’s debut. An album of wolf noises is strikingly “out there” even by the standards of industrial music of the time. “Hashishins” was followed by a trilogy of limited edition picture disc LPs featuring: a pagan drumming ritual, the last sermon of Jim Jones (as well as the final screams of his congregation), and the sounds of humans doing *%&^%.
All of these releases displayed a true surrealist sense of the dark and absurd. The Jim Jones album was released in 912 copies, one for each of the dead bodies found at Jonestown. “Pagan Drums of Calanda” came in a special limited edition of 30 copies featuring Valls’ own blood vacuum sealed under the transparent vinyl. Any arousal experienced listening to the sounds of org-asms on “Cold Meat” might be slightly counter-balanced by the autopsy photos of Elvis and Marilyn on either side of the disc. Celebrity, sex, blood, death, control, all of this and more was served up for your delectation on a VDO album – if you could actually get hold of a copy. Valls eschewed the faux-academic po-faced demeanour of his contemporaries. Whilst they waxed lyrical about their “research” into the darker recesses of human consciousness, Vagina Dentata Organ simply released mad records for the sheer hell of it, often with gaps of several years in between.
1994's “Un Chien Catalan” featured the sounds of a Harley Davidson which Valls describes as “a meeting in Hell between Jimi Hendrix, Philip Glass, and Karlheinz Stockhausen… all you can hear is the howling of a Harley, with telluric turbulence and feedback. We recorded it in Cadaques, Port Lligat and Cap-de-Crus in a cold winter’s day, on the same spot where L’Age d’Or was filmed by Louis Bunuel & Salvador Dali. The connection with UN CHIEN ANDALOU is very obvious. Both works have connotations of brutal eroticism.” Jordi Valls has continued to operate as Vagina Dentata Organ in the 21st Century as both an audio and visual artist. Rumours of controversial performances abound. And now as The Valls Brothers, Jordi and his sibling Marc look set to rival the Chapmans.
VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN (Jordi Valls) 'Live In Berlin' 31.03.2012 / 'Allegory of Cosmic Violence' - YouTube
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[isdntekvideo]Condition: Vinyl and plastic cover lie in mint condition, this is an unplayed archive copy (see picture).
Tracklist
A Live In Berlin 12:28 B Untitled
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