Formats
SHR152CD - CD
759718115222SHR152 - LP
759718115215
Details
CD ORIGINALLY OUT LAST YEAR ON RELEASE THE BATS, NOW REISSUED AND MADE AVAILABLE ON VINYL BY SHRIMPER RECORDS. EXPERIMENTAL FOLK MUSIC ANTHEMS WITH JEREMY AND CHRISTIAN FROM MENEGUAR. 'HOW TO SURVIVE' CONSISTS OF EVERYTHING FROM MORE TRADITIONAL SINGER/SONGWRITER SONGS TO NOISY YET BEAUTIFUL OUTBURSTS OF BRILLIANT LO-FI MADNESS. A TRULY AMAZING COLLECTION OF SONGS. ORIGINALLY RELEASED AS A DOUBLE CASSETTE ON FUCK IT TAPES, NOW REMASTERED AND FINALLY AVAILABLE ON CD. 13 SONGS, 42 MINUTES. COMES PACKAGED IN A DUAL COVER SLEEVE WITH DARK GREEN FELT AND FULL COLOUR ARTWORK SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL TAPE RELEASE. WOODS BEGAN IN THE WOODS, AT THE FOOT OF BEAR MOUNTAIN.
IN THE EARLIEST DAYS IT WAS A COLLABORATIVE IMPROVISATIONAL GROUP WITH TWO CORE MEMBERS AND SEVERAL GUESTS, KNOWN AS WOODSISTS. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, JEREMY EARL AND CHRISTIAN DEROECK EMERGED FROM THE WOODS, DUSTED THEMSELVES OFF, AND BEGAN TO WALK UPRIGHT. THE TWO WOODSISTS IMMERSED THEMSELVES IN HUMAN CULTURE, LEARNED TO CRAFT A MELODY, TO WIELD A TAMBOURINE, TO CONSTRUCT A CRUDE PHONOGRAPH FROM SPARE BICYCLE PARTS. THEY LEARNED THE VALUE OF A CASSETTE. JEREMY AND CHRISTIAN RETURNED TO THE WOODS AND SHARED THEIR NEWFOUND KNOWLEDGE WITH THE OTHER WOODSISTS. THE RESULT WAS WOODS, SONGS AND IMPROVISATIONS BY OUTSIDERS, INSPIRED BY THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
Tracks
1. HOLES
2. KID?S GOT HEART
3. HOW TO SURVIVE IN
4. 8-5 5-10
5. SILENCE IS GOLDEN
6. KEEP IT ON
7. GOD HATES THE FAITHLESS
8. ANGEL?S TRUMPET
9. BROKE
10. I GET BY
11. IN THE WOODS
12. MAKE TIME FOR KITTY
13. HOLIER THAN NO ONE
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