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  Finally available after 28 years the notorious third album by EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES - ‘SURREAL ESTATE’
  
  180gm Double vinyl, Gatefold sleeve, Plastic Sleeve + Stickered.
  Limited edition of 250 copies.
  
  ALL PROFITS DONATED TO MIND - www.mind.org.uk
  
  
  A1. Trainpiece - 05:48
  A2, Cinema Green - 07:38
  A3. Twister - 03:08
  B1. Strange Charm - 08:28
  B2. Tarang - 05:48
  C1. Dub Tune - 09:38
  C2. Gamelan Melodica - 03:58
  C3. Lalit - 05:09
  D1. Boogie Electric - 03:55
  D2. Guitar Cornet - 07:38
  D3. More Bodies - 05:19
  
  
  Recorded and produced in 1996 by Trevor ‘Underdog’ Jackson, rejected and ridiculed by the bands original label, the album sat unheard for decades and unreleased in its original intended format anywhere till now.
  
  A gloriously twisted mix of post rock, jazz, dub, no wave, noise & fractured beats played by a five piece consisting of :
  
  DAVE BATEMAN - GUITAR, BASS
  IAN GIRDLESTONE - TURNTABLES, TAPES, FX
  LUKE HANNAM - BASS, GUITAR,VOCALS
  ANDY KNIGHT - BRASS, KEYBOARDS, PERCUSSION, SAMPLES, TAPES VOCALS
  LEO TAYLOR - DRUMS
  
  Along with guest vocalist : SUSSAN DEYHIM
  
  The album sounds as strangely relevant today as it was wildly ahead of its time in 96.
  
  In founder member Luke Hannam's own words.
  
  "Just two months before the recording took place at the chapel studios in Lincolnshire ENC went through a major line up change with Leo Taylor recruited on drums and David Bateman added on guitar & additional programming, Ian Girdlestone on decks & tape looping and the two founding members Andy Knight- Sax, electronics, flutes, programming, keys & percussion and Luke Hannam on Bass.
  
  The band had come along way from its earliest days as a three piece in the late 80s based in the northeast . ENC were always an unusual band formed around Andy’s deep musicality and knowledge of free jazz and experimental music and Luke’s love of intense groove and dark post punk. They were an unlikely pairing in someways but they lived closely and supported each other for years.
  
  The 'Surreal Estate' project began as the third album loomed into view. Trevor Jackson who had contributed some fantastic remixes on previous material was hired as producer with Corrine 'The Sea' Pennington as an engineer. The band headed to their Brixton arch and set about making the most adventurous music of their career. The tracks that’s you hear on this album were mostly recorded during extensive sessions at The Chapel residential studios in Lincolnshire followed by various additional session in London and also at Trevor’s home studio. Recording sessions are funny things, stuff works, stuff fails, bands implode, and sometimes great albums get made, stability never makes the best music and this album probably proves both are true.
  
  My memories of these sessions are pretty vivid, we worked through the night creating our own private universe playing music as freely and intensely as we could. Andy provided, as he always did a sense of otherworldly concentration, I always found him like a man in the centre of a storm building circles and cycles, spinning patterns of sound rhythm and melody. Leo was a relative newcomer at the time but as afar as I was concerned produced beats so intense, so perfect, they pulled my bass into line … visceral and exact. David Bateman listened and carefully spun delicious guitar parts finding space where others thought there was none to be found … it was beautiful to watch and when I listen I can see him in the shadows immersed in the music. Ian’s loops and analogue textures found their perfect embrace with Andy’s subsonic samples and electronic depth charging …. The whole thing lurched like an obscure On U sound recording colliding with Sun Ra in Trevor’s hip hop universe".
  
  NB : On completion of the album in 1996 although finished (but not mastered) tracks were left with working track titles, due to be finalised in preparation of it's release that never happened, this release retains those original titles along with its originally planned track listing and running order.
  
  ALBUM DOES NOT COME WITH ANY FULL DIGITAL FILES. THIS IS A VINYL ONLY RELEASE
  
  
  Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire 1996
  Produced by Trevor 'Underdog' Jackson.
  Except B2 Produced by ENC
  Engineered by Corrine 'The Sea' Pennington
  Mixed at The Greenhouse, Sept 1996 by Corrine Pennington + Trevor Jackson
  Mastered by Noel Summerville
  Artwork by Trevor Jackson
  
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