J Marks & Shipen Lebzelter – Rock and other four letter words [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop beyond earthly description or transcription

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This conceptually rigorous

the title track opens the album with heavily filtered bass and woody talking guitar over a slow bubbling synth rhythm

Working with engineer Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls

The recurrent sounds from Besseny and Bowman’s intrepid field and bush explorations often verge on an indistinguishability between the synthesised and the concrete-organic

J Marks & Shipen Lebzelter – Rock and other four letter words [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop beyond earthly description or transcription"This New York based duo released their one and only LP in 1968 on Columbia Masterworks, just months after Zappa released Lumpy Gravy in California. Although the 2 projects have some superficial similarity in structure(text electronics freak out), it would seem that this later LP must have been made (at least largely), without any knowledge of the Zappa masterpiece. Another reference point might be The United States Of America who also released their