LE FORTE FOUR Bikini Tennis Shoes LP/1975/Los Angeles Free Music Society/LAFMS
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LE FORTE FOUR 'Bikini Tennis Shoes' LP (US, États-Unis, Catalogue #etat04) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2017 États-Unis label LP vinyl edition of the first LP released on the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) label from 1975 entitled Bikini Tennis Shoes by Le Forte Four.
(NOTE: LIMITED, NUMBERED VINYL EDITION OF 500 COPIES ONLY!)
The origins of Le Forte Four are those of the Los Angeles Free Music Society itself. Chip Chapman joined forces with Rick Potts (and shortly thereafter Tom and Joe Potts), taking up the LAFMS name in 1974. Ultimately baptizing themselves Le Forte Four, they began threading imagined lines between John Cage and The Residents, Cecil Taylor and Henry Cow – generating sounds completely unlike any of these and anything since.
The inaugural release on the eponymous LAFMS imprint with only 200 copies pressed originally, Bikini Tennis Shoes is a staggering piece of anti-music that remains as refreshingly ground-clearing today as it was when it first appeared in 1975. Its 40 minutes (parceled out across nearly as many tracks) chart forays into free improvisation, Buchla misuse, filtered noise, begrudging and damaged melodic sorties (from the Star-Spangled Banner to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring") and healthy doses of basement pablum.
Le Forte Four emerged out of the lethargic American '70s as a locus where, in their own words, "gamelans and ragas merged with serial and chance compositions finally melting together with instructional records and Beatles bootlegs." A wildly eclectic rummaging of postwar culture and 20th century sound, Le Forte Four's Bikini Tennis Shoes preempts punk's outsider ethos and DIY autodidactism.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 Ka-Bella-Cha-ChaA2 Some Problem With The Cord Or Something
A3 Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo (Excerpt)
A4 Good Worker
A5 Aye Ma Ma (I'm Amok)
A6 Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, STinky And Gus Make Warplanes
A7 Your Living Constitution (Dies)
A8 Before Docking In Space
A9 Candy Wrapper Blues
A10 A Little Sloppy Still
A11 Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair)
A12 Joe's Nose Solo
A13 Song Of The Electric Drill
A14 I Can't Even Think
A15 On The Dawning Of A Giant Face
A16 Joe's Dead/Bozo's Marriage/Twinkle
A17 What Do You Do, Radiator?
A18 The Grocery Store Is My Heaven
A19 Fade It Out
B1 The Pope Speaks
B2 Crank Up The Kids
B3 Bongo Madness
B4 Ka-Bella Reprise (An Excerpt In 5 Movements)
B5 Steven, Steven
B6 Sonnet
B7 Ballad De Forte Four
B8 It's Raining Bongos
B9 They Are Asleep
B10 Music Hall Bootleg (Excerpt)
B11 Painting The Roses Red
B12 Enough Fun
B13 That Feedback Again
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