RASCAL REPORTERS: The Foul-Tempered Clavier

Rascal Reporters

The Foul-Tempered Clavier

© 2001 Rascal Reporters

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Intricate, neurotic Elevator Music from Hell.

tracks

1 The White Bloodsheets
2 Seven Is A Long Time
3 Shoe Salad
4 Efrem Cymbalist, Jr.
5 R.D.S.
6 Steve Kretzmer
7 Klezmer's Ragu
8 Son of Steve Kretzmer
9 The Cymbalist
10 Sarahbella
11 Prisms
12 Tomorrow
13 My Name
14 Ricky and His Dad
15 Fresh Leather and Poultry Mix
16 Over Triangle

notes

Twenty-one years after their debut release, FREAKS OBSCURE, suburban Detroit's Rascal Reporters unveiled their sixth album: THE FOUL-TEMPERED CLAVIER.

From the Canterbury Sound to Pet Sounds; from Rock-In-Opposition to Mothers Of Invention, the Rascal Reporters approach "rock" music like no other band. Mind-boggling entertainment from these freaks obscure!

Includes the ultra-rare unreleased single from 1978, "My Name" and "Ricky And His Dad," plus two other bonus tracks from the Rascal Reporters vault!

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Rascal Reporters Discography:

"My Name" b/w "Ricky And His Dad" single CANCELED! 1978

FREAKS OBSCURE - cassette/reel + booklet (Hebbardesque Records) 1980

WE'RE GOD - cassette/reel + booklet (Hebbardesque Records) 1980

"Guns For Jerry's Kids" b/w "Beatrice" - 7" picture sleeve single + insert (Hebbardesque Records) 1981

RIDIN' ON A BUMMER - LP + insert (Hebbardesque Records) 1984

HAPPY ACCIDENTS - LP (Hebbardesque Records) 1988

PURPLE ENTRAPMENT - CD (Wafer Face Records) 1995

HAPPY ACCIDENTS - CD (ZNR Records) 1996

WE'RE GOD - CD (Wafer Face Records) 1997

THE FOUL-TEMPERED CLAVIER - CD (Pleasant Green Records) 2001

RIDIN' ON A BUMMER, 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - CD
(Hebbardesque Records) 2005

THE MIND BOGGLES - CD ______ 2009

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  • author: LasseM

    If your hooked on Zappas instrumental-funny-classical-era, this is a "must-have" .

  • highly experimental
    author: Record Heaven

    A highly experimental and avantgarde album that places itself between DJAM KARET and FRANK ZAPPA.

  • Canterbury style
    author: Musea

    RASCAL REPORTERS are one of a few American groups influenced by the Canterbury style. They play very elaborate music in which fuzz organ is frequently featured, much like EGG or HATFIELD AND THE NORTH.

  • complexity
    author: Wayside Music

    The complexity of the compositions and ideas here will thrill and astonish fans of rehearsal intensive rock. The opening track is so wonderful that even at 2:15, it's almost alone worth the price of the album.

  • a 3-ring circus
    author: Kinesis

    This is complex, keyboard-dominated, mostly instrumental rock music in the vein of Frank Zappa, The Muffins, Zamla Mammaz Manna and other RIO bands, Supersister, Soft Machine, and a three-ring circus. ...quite melodic, but it is very often dense and occasionally neurotic, hurling ideas at the listener at a breakneck pace. Unexpectedly, the one actual song with vocals sounds like Genesis and The Beatles.

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