Health&Beauty - Shame Engine / Blood Pleasure - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The new album from Health & Beauty - Shame Engine / Blood Pleasure - is their 2nd for Wichita Recordings and the 7th of their career. The recording features a large cast of musicians from the outfit's past and it's present helping the band's founder and sole constant Brian J Sulpizio achieve his idiosyncratic vision-a sound and ethos he's been kicking around, retooling, and finessing for more than 15 years. The new album conveys a directness and scorching power that seems to stem from the band's live performances, whether the harrowing, droning blues of the opener InchSaturday NightInch or the soulful Irish-tinged folk-rock of InchRecourse.Inch The most gripping and satisfying installment in Health & Beauty's process yet, renowned Chicago music critic, Peter Margasak, has declared Shame Engine / Blood Pleasure as Inchone of the great rock albums to emerge from Chicago this decadeInch, and it's surely one for fans of Jim O'Rourke's song-based output and The Sea & Cake, as well as appealing to anyone who enjoys InchTonight's The NightInch-era Neil Young.SIDE A01. Saturday Night 02. Yr Wives SIDE B01. Rat Shack 02. Clown SIDE C01. Lack 02. Bottom Leaves 03. Judy 04. Escaping Error SIDE D01. Recourse 02. Love Can Be Kind

All the words and all the shouting of the men and women, the beating of the fighting people, the roaring of the weapons, the war songs, the neighing of the horses, enough, all the noise of the battle froze over then. Now that the hard winter is over, all this is thawing out again in the warm, mild weather and is becoming audible. This and other excerpts from Rabelais' famous novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel provide the associative space for the Ensemble thélème's latest project. Works from the Renaissance (which reflect the spirit of Pantagruel) or modern ones that refer to this epoch are juxtaposed - often onomatopoeically - with InchmutationsInch. For the ensemble, Inchthe primary aim is to explore the creative process that is characteristic of the Renaissance. Here, patterns left behind by previous generations - or by antiquity - are imitated and made their own. The result is a musical adventure journey that is a real challenge. Album Tracks 1. Mutation I 2. La Chasse Gentilz Veneurs 3. Mutation II 4. Voulez Ouyr Les Cris de Paris 5. Mutation III 6. La Guerre Escoutez Tous Gentilz Gallois 7. Mutation IV 8. Le Blason Du Beau Tétin 9. Mutation V 10. Le Blason Du Laid Tétin 11. Mutation VI 12. On One or with You 13. Mutation VII 14. Lassus-Fantaisie O Doux Parler 15. Mutation VIII 16. Je L'ayme Bien 17. Mutation IX 18. La Nuict Froide Et Sombre

Album Tracks 1. Dust on Trial 2. Concrete 3. One Rizla 4. The Lick 5. Tasteless 6. Donk 7. Gold Hole 8. Friction 9. Lampoon 10. Angie 11. Live Sermons 12. Lampoon (Lightship Edition) 13. Gold Hole (Lightship Edition) 14. One Rizla (Live at Off the Cuff) 15. Concrete (Live at Off the Cuff) 16. Dust on Trial (Live at Off the Cuff)