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Gondwanaland (Steroid Maximus album)

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Gondwanaland
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1992
RecordedSelf Immolation Studios, Brooklyn (Summer 1989–Summer 1990)
GenreJazz, avant garde
Length54:52
LabelBig Cat
ProducerJ. G. Thirlwell
J. G. Thirlwell chronology
Male
(1992)
Gondwanaland
(1992)
Vice Squad Dick
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic(unrated)[1]

Gondwanaland is an album from Steroid Maximus. It was released in 1992 by Big Cat Records.

Gondwanaland is Ectopic Entertainment #ECT ENTS 003.

The album is the second Steroid Maximus album of instrumental soundtrack music to an imaginary film.[2] Ira Robbins of Trouser Press called the music "stunning in its mischievous diversion of traditional concepts", describing the music as "Wagnerian orchestration, exotic ethnic elements, blaring big-band swing, continental drift and found-sound constructions".[3]

Reviews:

  • John Chedsey (30 January 2000). "Satan Stole My Teddy Bear". Archived from the original on 9 April 2008. Alt URL
  • College Music Journal text at foetus.org
  • Sputnik Music review

Track listing

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  1. "¡Quilombo!" (J. G. Thirlwell / Raymond Watts) – 4:22
  2. "Radio Raheem" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:25
  3. "First Movement: The Trojan Hearse" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 2:38
  4. "Second Movement: The Auctioneer of Souls" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 4:36
  5. "Third Movement: Crawling Goliath" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:42
  6. "Fourth Movement: Erupture" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:13
  7. "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" (Thirlwell / Lucy Hamilton) – 5:52
  8. "I Will Love You Always (Wild Irish Rose)" (Thirlwell / Don Flemming) – 6:14
  9. "Cross Double Cross" (Thirlwell / Mark Cunningham) – 4:08
  10. "Destino Matar" (Thirlwell / Away) – 3:32
  11. "Volgarity" (Thirlwell) – 2:36
  12. "Öl (Kwik-Lube)" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 1:56
  13. "Powerhouse!" (Raymond Scott) – 4:06
  14. "Homeo" (Thirlwell / Away) – 2:34
  • Tracks 3–6 are collectively titled "The Bowel of Beelzebub: A Symphony in Four Movements."
  • "¡Quilombo!" and "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" are taken from ¡Quilombo!.
  • "Powerhouse!" originally released in 1990 by Thirlwell's Garage Monsters project.

Personnel and production

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References

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  1. ^ "Gondwanaland". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir (2001) All Music Guide to Electronica, Backbeat, ISBN 978-0879306281, p. 187
  3. ^ Robbins, Ira "Foetus", Trouser Press, retrieved 2011-07-25
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