{"id":1673,"date":"2010-03-19T06:26:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/?page_id=1673"},"modified":"2010-03-19T06:26:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:26:03","slug":"the-foetus-all-nude-revue-bedrock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/discography\/releases\/the-foetus-all-nude-revue-bedrock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foetus All-Nude Revue: Bedrock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Release Information<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

12\u2033EP Jul1987
\nSelf Immolation \/ Some Bizarre #WOMB FAN 13 Made in the UK
\n12\u2033EP 1987
\nSelf Immolation \/Some Bizarre \/ Relativity #88561-8186-1 Made in the US
\nCS 1987
\nSelf Immolation \/ Some Bizarre \/ Relativity #88561-8186-4 Made in the US<\/p>\n

Track Listing <\/h3>\n

Face A:
\n01. Bedrock<\/p>\n

Face B:
\n02. Diabolus In Musica
\n03. Shut
\n04. Rattlesnake Insurance
\n05. Bedrock Strip<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Linear Notes<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

FACE A 45 RPM  FACE B 33 RPM<\/p>\n

ALL SONGS WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND PERFORMED BY THE FOETUS ALL-NUDE REVUE.<\/p>\n

A SELF IMMOLATION \/ SOME BIZARRE ENTERPRISE.  PUBLISHED BY DIMEHART<\/p>\n

GIVE ME A HOME WHERE THE DINOSAURS ROAM<\/p>\n

RECORDED AT MILO AND PARADISE, LONDON<\/p>\n

ENGINEERED BY CHARLES GRAY AND WARNE LIVESEY<\/p>\n

(Diabolus In Musica:)<\/p>\n

\u201cmi contra fa<\/p>\n

Diabolus est in musica\u201d<\/p>\n

Diabolus in Musica was a medieval term for the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth).  It divides the octave into two equal parts (in this case C and F#).<\/p>\n

In the medieval system of church modes the tritone was the most conspicuous as the interval between the final and the fourth degree of the modes on F, the Lydian and Hypolydian.<\/p>\n

The first mention of the word \u201ctritonus\u201d seems to be in the 9th or 10th century organum treatise \u201cMusica Enchiriadis\u201d, though it was not explicitly prohibited until the development of Guido of Arezzo\u2019s hexachordal system.  From then until the end of the Renaissance the tritone, nicknamed Diabolus in Musica, was regarded as a dangerous interval associated with evil and was banned by the chirch as being thought to summon Satan.<\/p>\n

Those found using the chord were routinely subjected to slow torturous death by genital mutilation and the administering of such implements as the skull crusher, the breast breaker and the wheel.  Burnings at the stake were also favoured.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED LISTENING CONDITIONS: BLACKNESS; OXYGEN AT LISTENERS DISCRETION; EXTREME STEREO OR HEADPHONES; LARGE VOLUME MANDATORY.<\/p>\n

(Bedrock Strip:)<\/p>\n

(for Mick Harvey)<\/p>\n

SLEEVE NOTES BY J.G. THIRLWELL<\/p>\n

SLEEVE DESIGN BY J.G. THIRLWELL<\/p>\n

EXECUTION: MX\/Ai<\/p>\n

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY J.G. THIRLWELL<\/p>\n

MIXED AT LIVINGSTON, LONDON<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Release Notes<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBedrock\u201d, \u201cShut\u201d and \u201cRattlesnake Insurance\u201d also appear in their original forms on the Sink<\/strong> release, as does \u201cDiabolus In Musica\u201d in an edited form.  \u201cShut\u201d also appears in the same form on the Various Artists Ish<\/strong> release.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiabolus In Musica\u201d also appears in raw form in the Richard Kern film \u201cThe Manhattan Love Suicides\u201d.<\/p>\n

Included a printed paper inner sleeve, with the notes above, as well as lyrics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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One side of this record plays at 45, the other at 33. Side one features the title cut, an odd combination of bluesy, heavy metal mentality and a slight jazzy influence. A lot of the jazz flavor is provided by the use of an upright bass. Foetus\u2019 vocals are somewhere between a sleazy Jim Dandy and a gravelish Tom Waits, and oh does it sound slimy. Lines like \u201ca woman\u2019s place is on my face\u201d are sure to endear Foetus to feminists everywhere. If side one is more \u201cbody\u201d oriented, than side two is more directed to the brain, and is much more abstract and experimental. Here we have an instrumental suite entitled \u201cDiabolus in Musica\u201d which is based on the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth). The tritone was banned in the medieval church because it was believed to summon Satan; those who were found to be using it were often tortured to death. This piece is at times almost industrial in its harshness, and at other moments conveys the kind of creeping, slow menace I associate with a band like Univers Zero. While I was partial to the second side, the other material is certainly not run-of-the-mill.  (Relativity, 149-03 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11434)<\/p>\n

Source: Option of January\/February 1988, Rev. Bryan Sale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u2026finally out after enormous delays, the Foetus All-Nude Revue is designed to strip yr clothes off yr bod and yr skin off yr bones. A swinging porn-epic that\u2019s as brassily nap as Lydia\u2019s long-ago work-out with Billy Ver Planck, this rec manifests an oink as sinister as anything Foetus\u2019s ever done before. Like a roomful of shifty-eyed mofos eyeing yr tot in a pediatrician\u2019s waiting room. Some nerds seem to prefer the older more-heavily-syntho-sound-Foetus, but I\u2019ll take All-Nude any day. Its approximation of a big, big outfit makes me walk like a drunk cartoon hippo. And that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

Source: Forced Exposure of winter 1988, Byron.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Release Information 12\u2033EP Jul1987 Self Immolation \/ Some Bizarre #WOMB FAN 13 Made in the UK 12\u2033EP 1987 Self Immolation \/Some Bizarre \/ Relativity #88561-8186-1 Made in the US CS 1987 Self Immolation \/ Some Bizarre \/ Relativity #88561-8186-4 Made in the US Track Listing Face A: 01. Bedrock Face B: 02. Diabolus In Musica […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1984,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}