BOURBONESE QUALK 1983-1987 by BOURBONESE QUALK

SKU79967
ArtistBOURBONESE QUALK
TitleBOURBONESE QUALK 1983-1987
LabelMANNEQUIN
Catalog #MNQ 061LP
Tag
ReleaseW 11 - 2015
FormatVinyl - EU2LP
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Tracks

  1. Dream Decade
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79967_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/1_dream_decade.mp3
  2. Born Left Hearted
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/18_born_left_hearted.mp3
  3. Pogrom
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/12_pogrom.mp3
  4. Soft City
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/17_soft_city.mp3
  5. Head Stop
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/7_head_stop.mp3
  6. Gag
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/9_gag.mp3
  7. Outcry
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/15_outcry.mp3
  8. Return To Order
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/14_return_to_order.mp3
  9. Confrontation
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/16_confrontation.mp3
  10. In Flux
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79967_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/10_in_flux.mp3
  11. Qualk Street
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/4_qualk_street.mp3
  12. Backlash
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/19_backlash.mp3
  13. Sweat It Out
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79967_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/13_sweat_it_out.mp3
  14. There Is No Night
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79967_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/14_there_is_no_night.mp3
  15. God With Us
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/1_god_with_us.mp3
  16. Blood Orange Bargain Day
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/2_blood_orange_bargain_day.mp3
  17. Shutdown
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/10_shutdown.mp3
  18. Invocation
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/6_invocation.mp3
  19. To Hell With Consequences
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/3_to_hell_with_consequences.mp3
  20. Erector
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/5_erector.mp3
  21. Black Madonna
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/8_black_madonna.mp3
  22. Suburb City
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/11_suburb_city.mp3
  23. Workover
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/22_workover.mp3
  24. Deadbeat
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/13_deadbeat.mp3
  25. Insurrection
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/20_insurrection.mp3
  26. This Is The Enemy
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/b/79968_bourbonese_qualk_1983-1987/21_this_is_the_enemy.mp3

Description

Mannequin Records is proud to present a double LP and CD compilation of one of the most important Industrial bands active during the 80s in the UK.Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. Throughout this period they had a number of different line-ups but this album concentrates on the period from 1983 until 1987 with the trio of Simon Crab, Julian Gilbert and Steven Tanza. During this time the group released five albums: ‘Laughing Afternoon’, ‘Hope’, ‘The Spike’, ‘Preparing For Power’ and the self-titled ‘Bourbonese Qualk’ on their own Recloose Organisation and New International Records labels. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focussed on controlling their work - they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and music venue (the notorious ‘Ambulance Station’) - they refused to integrate into the commercial music racket turning down publishing deals from major labels - stubbornly opting for total independence. The group are known for their political activism which was formed in the crucible of the 1980s Britain: The Miner’s Strike, Falklands/Malvinas war, Anti-fascism, Thatcherism, Moneterism, squatting/housing, local government corruption, anti-capitalism, and Anarchism - which was further re-enforced by touring Europe and meeting like-minded groups and organisations. Bourbonese Qualk saw their music as a revolutionary cultural force - a belief that radical musical forms must be part of positive social change. Despite this position, the group avoided dogma, cliché and propaganda, preferring to let their audience come to their own conclusions - their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of cynical power-politics of any color - often irritating members of the traditional ‘organised left’. In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building on the Old Kent Road in South London which they turned into a base for their activities and a co-operative for artists, musicians and writers as well as a centre for radical political activism - specifically as a co-ordinating centre for the ‘Stop The City’ anti-capitalist riots of 1984-1986. Most of the recordings on this album were recorded in their studio at the Ambulance Station. The group never record in a ‘proper’ studio (not that they could ever afford to), choosing instead to work with their own extremely basic equipment (at a time when home studios were very unusual - the unique raw sound of these recordings is the result of their choice - which now, ironically, is in vodue due perhaps to the overwhelming obliquity of ‘clean’ audio digital production tools. If Bourbonese Qualk have a legacy, it is that ‘culture’ should be reclaimed, re-defined and owned by the people, wherever they are, however small and not by the state or the market and that ‘culture’ is a vital vehicle for debate and radical change. The fight goes on. (Simon Crab, London, 2014)

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