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2LP Vinyl – TEG 76530-1

Recorded in 1979 and released in 82 on Russell and colleague William Socolov's Sleeping Bag Records, it's disco at its loosest, warmest, and weirdest. The band, a no-brow, no-context hash of veteran session men like the Ingram Brothers and avant-garde voyagers like Jill Kroesen, fumble with disco like it was a third language. Most of it's alluringly ugly and unkempt, not traditionally virtues on the dance floor. And dance music's paradoxical ideal– infinity, but, you know, with more climaxes–is abandoned for something more aimless and continual. The random punctuations in lines like "I wanna go bang" or interruptive keyboard clusters have more to do with John Cage than disco's repetition. Then again, not going anywhere in particular while sustaining motion is a possibility monks consider for a lifetime.