A genuine oddity, cello, vocals and well, echo, this is as singular as it gets. Arthur Russell was the visionary genius behind Sleeping Bag records, a label that found favour with the genre hopping iconoclasts of the eighties club scene by fusing disco with the avant garde. This is a very different proposition, having...
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Concocted by Serge Gainsbourg, the most exalted potentate of lust, this bizarre fantasy detailing a (the?) middle aged lothario’s affair with a teenager oozes priapic zeal, laced with a sense of humour that can only be described as goblinesque. Unusually for a concept album from this era the music has dated astonishingly well; produced...
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