Chewing Hides the Sound

by Snakefinger

Chewing Hides the Sound cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1979
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:27
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced largely in collaboration with his longtime associates The Residents, the British avant-garde guitarist issued his incredibly eccentric solo debut. The record is characterized by his distinctly surreal, detuned guitar work, heavily processed vocals, and jittery, synthesized rhythms. It is widely regarded as a quintessential masterpiece of the obscure 'Zolo' microgenre, reveling in gleeful weirdness and pop deconstruction.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, eccentric, satirical, unpredictable

Tracklist

  1. The Model
  2. Kill the Great Raven
  3. Jesus Was a Leprechaun
  4. Here Come the Bums
  5. The Vivian Girls
  6. Magic and Ecstasy
  7. Who is the Culprit and Who is the Victim_
  8. What Wilbur_
  9. Picnic in the Jungle
  10. Friendly Warning
  11. I Love Mary
  12. The Vultures of Bombay

Credits

  • Emil Schult - written-by
  • Karl Bartos - written-by
  • Ralf H眉tter - written-by
  • Phil Culp - bass
  • Don Jackovich - percussion
  • Ennio Morricone - written-by
  • Steven Brown - soprano saxophone

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