Pigs for Lepers

by Smegma

Pigs for Lepers cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Pig
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:05
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Cheez-it-Ritz, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Edy Williams, Amazon Bambi, Mike King, Dick Knudsen, Lee Rockey, Harry Cess Poole, Jackie Stewart

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as part of the deeply weird Los Angeles Free Music Society continuum (despite relocating to Portland), the collective constructed a disorienting barrage of tape loops, squalling noise, and anti-musical improvisation. The record functions as a surrealist audio collage, aggressively rejecting traditional structures in favor of grotesque, absurdist soundscapes. It remains a legendary, uncompromising artifact of the American tape-trading cassette underground.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, lo-fi, avant-garde, dissonant, sampling, experimental, noisy, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Antbone (6:40)
  2. Id-O-Matic (2:45)
  3. In The Murder Room (4:30)
  4. Adena Archives Presents: Part One Of The Birth Of Bubs (4:48)
  5. Dying Cows With Putrid Not Praiseworthy Predation (2:36)
  6. Madness Mombo (2:17)
  7. Oh-ooh! (2:25)
  8. Dickensmeglee Part 35 (2:39)
  9. Mr. Potatoheads' Flotation Excersises (6:25)

Credits

  • Smegma - primary artist
  • Amazon Bambi - bass, vocals, violin
  • Mike King - effects, drums
  • Harry Cess Poole - guitar, vocals
  • Ju Suk Reet Meate - guitar, vocals [effects], guitar, effects, bass, performer [several variaties of drinking straws converted to music straws], guitar [warpo], voice, effects, trumpet, voice [with effects], percussion, effects, trumpet, piano [toy], organ [farfesa], bass [string]
  • D.K. - percussion, guitar
  • Mr. Mike - percussion, bass
  • Dr. Id - tape [effects]

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