Happy Wretched Family

by Non Credo

Happy Wretched Family cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Victo
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:00:48
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Kira Vollman, Bernard Sauser-Hall, Joseph Berardi

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Los Angeles-based duo Non Credo delivers a highly eccentric, theatrical take on avant-prog with 'Happy Wretched Family'. The album heavily features erratic keyboard lines, complex vocal harmonies, and unsettling electroacoustic tape manipulation, evoking a distinct, carnival-esque sense of dread. It serves as a fascinating, deeply quirky artifact for dedicated fans of Rock in Opposition and dense, unpredictable experimental rock.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, polyphonic, polyrhythm, progressive, experimental, diverse, theatrical, deconstructed

Tracklist

  1. Sporco Mutande (1:46)
  2. Curious Couplings (4:33)
  3. Slips Through Fingers (2:51)
  4. Piano Urine (7:46)
  5. Ambrosia And Arsenic Tango (3:09)
  6. We Can Build You (1:28)
  7. Entzauberung (3:38)
  8. Snake Oil (2:41)
  9. Hacked (5:08)
  10. Big Teeth (3:13)
  11. Pay & Learn (4:10)
  12. Tokyorama (0:40)
  13. Miliza Three Flights Down (7:01)
  14. Arms Trodden Off By The Cows (1:16)
  15. Joyeria (2:42)
  16. Looking For Eddie (4:29)
  17. Happy Wretched Family (4:08)

Credits

  • Bernard Sauser-Hall - composed by, piano
  • Joseph Berardi - composed by, drums, percussion, marimba, piano, violoncello, performer [radio]
  • Kira Vollman - composed by, voice, clarinet, bass clarinet, electric bass, keyboards, guitar, text by [tous les textes]
  • Fran莽ois Bienvenue - graphics [graphisme et traitement photo]

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