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“... beautiful, compelling, funny, crazy stuff. I listen to [People Like Us] while sitting at my drawing board.” - Matt Groening
Check out the madcap world of People Like Us & Wobbly on “Giant Love Ball.”
[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://fairtilizer.com/track/peoplelikeusandwobbly-giantloveball
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People Like Us & Wobbly
“Music For The Fire”
(Illegal Art)
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The fruit of many years of work, Music For The Fire began as People Like Us & Wobbly collected and collaged their way through various depictions of misfired communications and heartbreak sourced from popular culture for a series of live improvisations.
Strangely direct and evocative for an album assembled entirely from a patchwork of disparate sources and music both obscure and over-familiar, Music For The Fire comes with an illustrated lyric sheet which reproduces the countless sampled voices as a single if utterly schizophrenic text -- a bedtime story that is wildly inappropriate for actual children. No reliable narrators, just the familiar and absurd, which on different spins of the disc might strike you as either maudlin, poignant or almost painfully hilarious.
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. She has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, the National Film Theatre, Purcell Room,
Wobbly is the long-running collage project of Jon Leidecker, who improvises live with pre-recordings to coax the harmonies out of recorded sounds of individuals and animals from disparate cultures. Previous and ongoing projects include collaborations with Negativland, Matmos, Thomas Dimuzio of
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LINKS
EPK : PEOPLE LIKE US : WOBBLY : ILLEGAL ART : FACEBOOK: MYSPACE : TWITTER
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CONTACT JOSH BLOOM | FANATIC PROMOTION
WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL
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