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SKU	75142
Artist	ROLAND P. YOUNG
Title	HEARSAY I-LAND
Label	PALTO FLATS
Catalog #	PFLP 002
Tag	Wave / Pop / Rock
Release	W 06 - 2014
Format	Vinyl - USLP
€ 20,50	incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

Go Away
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/1_go_away.mp3
Don't Make Me Wait
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/2_dont_make_me_wait.mp3
Ballo-Balla
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/3_ballo-balla.mp3
Edge Of Disaster
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/4_edge_of_disaster.mp3
Don't Ever Take Your Love Away
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/5_dont_ever_take_your_love_away.mp3
Victim
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/6_victim.mp3
So Very Easy
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/7_so_very_easy.mp3
Different Package
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/8_different_package.mp3
It Hurts So Bad
ROLAND P. YOUNG
https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/75142_hearsay_i-land/9_it_hurts_so_bad.mp3

Description

"Mid-eighties, outsider synth-boogie" sounds about right. Still fresh and worth a check!You may be familiar with the terrific spiritual jazz of this Alice Coltrane protege, as revived by EM in Osaka — classics like Isophonic Boogie Woogie — and maybe even his stints with avant-garde jazzbos Infinite Sound and NYC no-wavers The Offs (whose first record sported a Basquiat cover). Quite different, utterly compelling chapters in the same story, Hearsay I-Land presents RY's forays into mid-eighties, outsider synth-boogie: the 1984 four-track twelve I-Land, besides most of his 1987 LP Hearsay Evidence. Ballo-Balla is an insouciant dance-floor stealth-attack suited to The Paradise Garage, with Risa Young intoning like a fitness instructor — come Madam — over a spacey 808, criss eighties cowbell, bass sequencer, and weird effects; and Don't Ever Take Your Love Away is a kind of melancholic synth-wave Lovers Rock; whilst Roland himself sings in a high-pitched, soulful voice over ruff analogue programming, mesmerically entangling Jeff Phelps, Arthur Russell and Dam Funk.