It's Not What It Seems, by various

It's Not What It Seems

by various

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ninthcouncil Has Jez Stevens been reaching into my brain and taking half formed ideas, then actually making them work? Fictional bands, false identities, alternative 80s? Excellent, only one duff track on it (which I won't be so graceless as to identify).

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Ships with a black jewel case just like it's 1983 all over again. Liner notes include the incredible band background stories that history can't bring itself to remember...

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	1.	Chemical Gary - Weirdo 03:18
	2.	Dead Pilot - ZMIZET 04:45
	3.	Lambdog - Put it on your dog 05:11
	4.	Miss Impact - The deviation 03:00
	5.	Japanese Monastery - Koan 03:04
	6.	Monument - Valley 04:34
	7.	The Tourniquet Twins - Citta 02:34
	8.	The Decadent - Lipstick 03:52
	9.	We Not I - Time goes on 03:33
	10.	Pinchneedle - God's free gift 03:26
	11.	Subterranean Slugz - Bus shelter wife 02:25
	12.	Bunker Archaeology - The Third Antikythera Mechanism 03:21

about

A list of fictitious bands was drawn up and each name was given to friends and favourites of The Burning Trestle.

Each artist was asked to record a new piece of music in the guise of their new persona.

Who created what is a closely guarded secret - even the participants don't know who did what.

Artists include Belbury Poly, The Head Technician, Scanner, Sculpture, Graham Dunning, Renaldo And The Loaf, Si Heartfield and Keith Seatman and others!

credits

released November 6, 2020

Geoff Cheesemaster, Graham Dunning, Dan and Zazie Hayhurst, The Head Technician, Si Heartfield, Jim Jupp, Astro Myrmex, Jack Packer, Renaldo and The Loaf, Robin Rimbaud, Keith Seatman, Rusty Sheriff and last but not least Rueben Sutherland

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Analog electronics and studio histrionics...

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