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Volcano The Bear - Commencing

DELUXE BOX SET including 5LPs + 50 page book. LTD edit. 500x. silkscreened print on
burgundy cardboard box incl.individual covers + download code.

  

Featuring over 4 hours of music, 64 tracks (+ 10 bonus tracks) as well as a accompanied 50 page book including artwork, flyers, photos and stories from VTB´s 20 year history.


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Leicester, England – mid 1990's. Aaron Moore, Nick Mott, Clarence Manuelo & Daniel Padden create a free form group named Volcano The Bear out of their frustration with standard musical limitations. Now, after 20 years of experimenting with improvisation, folk, Dada, Post Punk, Krautrock, noise, surreal comedy, pure avant-garde and more, the group has obtained a cult following and high critical praise across the globe. Reknowned for their highly theatrical and obscure live performances, as well as their mind-blowing catalogue of releases, VTB truly is a one of a kind group, consistently pushing forward with their own unique, experimental approach to sound making.

Commencing manages to be both a retrospective of the group's 20 year history as well as it ´s own unique release filled with vast amounts of material. The 5 albums, 64 tracks & over 4 hours in length, presented here has been carefully put together over the last couple of years to become an entity – working as much by itself as well as a whole. Expect an abundance of unreleased material, alt-versions, tracks from early cassette albums never released on vinyl, live recordings, pieces from forgotten compilation appearances and more, all mixed and compiled together to form 5 stand-alone albums.





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Tracklisting:

LP ONE

Side A

Yak Folks Y´are
June 1995
The Following Him
23/7/1995
The Idea Of Wood
1997
Go Fetch The Water Anthony
1996
Tubular Smells
20/7/1995
BB
1997
Pretty Flower
1996
Fog Slicer
1996
Ash Harm
23/7/1995

Side B

Eleven
1996
Pick Up The Spanners
1996
Tic Toc
1998
Velcro Symbols
1997
Egg & Two Books
1997
General Chin
1997
The One Burned Ma
1997

LP TWO

Side A

Horse
1996
Ballet Of Swedish Mountain
1997
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah-Um Cha Check
1998
Elephant Bingo
1998
Quick
1996
Barbara Castle Festival Hall
1999
Phantom, Tha Will Be Done
Autumn, 1997

Side B

Hello Graham
1997
Feverfew
2004
Planetary Bethlehem
22/3/1998
Tadpole Alphabet
6/2/1998

LP THREE

Side A

Asian Speedway
2001/2014
The Pincher
2005
Broccoli Von Hamburg
2008
Chair: The Musical
16/9/04
Cond
16/9/04
Strange Dreams Of Invisible Girls
1998
Woman Who Weighs Out The Wool
2000

Side B

Hexofun
1996
St. Ivel Of The Fittest
2002/2014
The Middle Farm
2004
Splendido
2007
Tremondo
2007
Bowls
2001/2015
Backwoods Colour
2001

 

LP FOUR

Side A

Halo Onna Volcano
2008
Fat Monarch
2008
Jackanapes
2008
Tori Anus Abdul
19/7/1995
Sex Transfusion
19/6/1998
Hot Rat Piano
2010
Aflame
1997
Night Fig
2007
Monthly Friends To Cherish
2009
           
Side B

Goose War Two
2010
HatHands
2008/15
Baltic
2004
Long Kong Is My Pain
2006
Curly Robot
2001

LP FIVE

Side A

Amateurs Blind
Burnt Seer
Crikey Biscuits
Hairboots
Did You Ever Feel Like Jesus?
all tracks 12/2007

Side B

Hairy Queen
2010
Cruston
2010
Strausshand
22/3/1998
Botticello
19/6/1998


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