Description:	2LP on Finders Keepers
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Finders Keepers
	Price:	£15.19
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 11 March 2010.

Here's another terribly obscure record from Finders Keepers I know absolutely nothing about. It's a Jean Paul Massiera related thing by HORRIFIC CHILD called L'ETRANGE MR. WHINSTER and it's fucking tapped. I've no idea why it needs to be capitalised but I suspect there's some sort of demented reason for it. Recorded in 1976 it's apparently a Schizoid Sonic Sketchbook which features a disturbing mix of Dismembered tape samples, paranoid poetry and cosmic chaos. Make of that what you will but it's pretty accurate. It's a right ole eerie paranoid mess of experimental horror sounding noises and French spoken wierdness. I prefer this a lot to the Midnight Massiera album... it's much darker and wierder. Probably spooky as well... I like a bit of spooky.... I like it when I recognise the odd word word like chateau. It makes me feel like a super clever chap. The cover says it all.... a giant fish head wearing some armour holding a skull surrounded by a bat, a snakes head, a dismembered bleeding finger and some sort of lizard thing. The contents are indeed as surreal as the cover!!

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What their label says...

· The follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Midnight Massiera: The BMusic
Of Jean Pierre Massiera’, ‘L’Etrange Mr. Whinster’ is a disturbing
mix of dismembered tape samples, paranoid-poetry and cosmic chaos
resurrected from the crypt of Studio Antibes 1976, ‘… Mr. Whinster’
was marketed in the format of a psychological experience rather than a pop
record.

· A bloodstained patchwork of surrealism and brooding psychedelic rock, the
LP stitched together Massiera's own shock-tactical spoken word (in the style
of his earlier exploitation record 'Erik' which described the ‘Streets Of
Desolation’ after the Nazi occupation) and a cacophony of live
instrumentation and de-tuned and collaged samples from the vaults of the
Antibes Studio. Most of the contributors, loosely described as the
'personnel’, were featured in snippet and sample form apart from some
short custom written passages that were performed by musicians from the
Nice Music Conservatory directed by Antibes regular Gérard Pontieux
who would later appear on the credits as an arranger for Human Egg and
Turn Radio On (Massiera's rare proto-disco collaboration with his half
brother Bernard Torelli). Extra electric basslines were dubbed onto the
record courtesy of ex-Pyranas / Hermaphrodites bassist Tony Bonfils
(who would later appear in Synthesis and Human Egg). Beneath the deep
theatrical growls of JPM himself, backing vocals came from the two singing
duos Paul & Virginia and Micky & Joyce including samples lifted straight
from precious sessions such as Visitors or Les Chats Renaissance.
Massiera also credits vocal appearances to two bizarre figures from the
French glitterati in the form of stage singer Roberto Galbés and the larger
than life celebrity impresario Bob Damiano (who would later write lyrics for
Massiera’s extra terrestrial Venus Gang project).