Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion
(Produced by Graham Massey)

Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion

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Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD

Crispy Ambulance: Random Textures + Compulsion

BE 2016 2xCD; Factory Benelux: FBN 81 CD

Tracks:

CD1 - Random Textures:

01. 08:33 Integra
02. 06:54 Allegro
03. 05:58 Prostis
04. 02:10 Four Bank Man
05. 03:55 Drifter
06. 06:55 Baku
07. 06:14 Peripheral Vision
08. 08:11 Karpadia
09. 08:01 Bastion
10. 04:12 Leviathan
11. 08:18 Red Texas

CD2 - Compulsion:

01. 03:26 Rainforest Ritual
02. 04:11 Say Shake
03. 07:04 Nightfall Ends the Ceasefire
04. 05:08 At the Sounding of the Klaxon
05. 02:27 WMTP.2
06. 04:27 Rain Without Clouds
07. 06:32 Lucifer Rising
08. 07:40 Open, Gates of Fire
09. 06:03 Choral
10. 05:46 Four Line Whip (Remix)

Released:

20th May 2016.

Credits:

Produced by Graham Massey. Recorded at SSR and Airtight Studios,
Manchester, between 2014 and 2016.

Cover image by Paul Normann. Factory Benelux FBN 81 CD

Disc 1 recorded at Airtight Studios, Manchester on 14 November 2015. Engineered by Seadna McPhail. Mixed and produced by Graham Massey in January 2016.

Disc 2 tracks 2 to 4 recorded at SSR, Manchester, October 2014. Engineered by Sara De Clara and Kesh Savani. Tracks 5 and 6 are outtakes from the Plateau Phase album recorded by Chris Nagle at Strawberry, Stockport, September 1981, mixed in 2014 by Graham Massey. Tracks 7 and 8 recorded at Testa Rossa, Manchester, June 2003. Track 9 recorded at Airtight, Manchester, April 2015. Track 10 is a remix of Four Line Whip produced by Graham Massey in 2015.

For the realisation of this project Crispy Ambulance were Keith Darbyshire (bass and guitar), Robert Davenport (guitar, keyboards and drum machine), Alan Hempsall (guitar and synthesiser), Gary Madeley (drums, synthesiser and sequencer) and Graham Massey (additional keyboards, percussion and wind instruments).

Mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technologyworks. Design by Atomluft. Cover image by Paul Normann. Other booklet images by Bethany Cassidy (P2), Peter Staessens (P6/7, P8), Emily Bowling (P3, P11), Martin Lewsley (P12), Alan Hempsall (P9 mosaic, P10). Subliminal Impulse poster design by Giles Crawford and Mick Schubert. Additional photography (P9) by Wayne Goodman. With thanks to SSR Studio and Darla Records. Dedicated to Marjorie and Barry Seddon.

All songs written by Hempsall/Madeley/Davenport/Darbyshire (LTM Songs)

Remarks:

Crispy Ambulance \ Random Textures + Compulsion [FBN 81 CD]

Factory Benelux presents Random Textures, a new instrumental album by cult Manchester group Crispy Ambulance, now issued as a double CD set with 2015 album Compulsion included as a bonus disc.

Random Textures features material written by the band for a series of multi-media events in Manchester during 2015/16 and billed as the Subliminal Impulse Review. The producer is longterm collaborator Graham Massey of 808 State/Biting Tongues. "After a few years of playing our Factory back catalogue it felt like time for a change," explains frontman Alan Hempsall. "The best way to force a change in our composing methods and move forward was for me to stop singing. We've always liked doing material that could be used as soundtrack music - albeit for fairly disturbing films. Random Textures is the sound of us spooking ourselves in our cellar studio."

Companion disc Compulsion was originally issued in a limited edition of 500 vinyl copies to mark Record Store Day in 2015. In many respects it's the second album Crispy Ambulance might have recorded in 1982 after the release of seminal debut The Plateau Phase, with seven of the ten tracks written and performed live at that time. To these are added Rain Without Clouds, an outtake newly restored from the original multitrack masters, and remixes of Four Line Whip and WMTP.2 by producer-cum fifth member Graham Massey.

Almost uniquely, Crispy Ambulance has retained the same line-up since the group was originally founded in 1978: Alan Hempsall (vocals, keyboards), Gary Madeley (drums), Robert Davenport (guitars), Keith Darbyshire (bass).

Cover image by Paul Normann.

CD tracklist:

Disc 1

01. Integra
02. Allegro
03. Prostis
04. Four Bank Man
05. Drifter
06. Baku
07. Peripheral Vision
08. Karpadia
09. Bastion
10. Leviathan
11. Red Texas

Disc 2

01. Rainforest Ritual
02. Say Shake
03. Nightfall Ends the Ceasefire
04. At the Sounding of the Klaxon
05. WMTP.2
06. Rain Without Clouds
07. Lucifer Rising
08. Open, Gates of Fire
09. Choral
10. Four Line Whip Remix

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Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Front Cover
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Front Cover
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Back
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Back
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Credits
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Credits
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Disc 1
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Disc 1
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Disc 2
Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures + Compulsion - UK 2xCD - Disc 2