Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

byClaire Francis
May 16, 2024

Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your mind may not jump to the Japanese outfit Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

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Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

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In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere.

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Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

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Norfolk’s answer to The Chemical Brothers, Alistair Cormack and Thomas Albrighton were an ambient dub duo from Norwich.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Charlotte For Ever’ (Philips, 1986)

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Serge Gainsbourg wrote music for lots of people.

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Paddy Mcaloon

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In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

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Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)

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An album can be revelatory in any number of ways. Perhaps it arrives at the right time in your life to be particularly resonant, or it might reveal a whole area of music you didn’t realise existed.

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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Claire Francis

Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)

Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Charlotte For Ever’ (Philips, 1986)

Paddy Mcaloon

Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)

A Man Called Adam ‘Barefoot In The Head’

Freeez ‘IOU’

Scott Simon ‘Lawnchairs’

Eduardo Polonio ‘Cuenca’

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Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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