Plays The Residents
 | 1 | The Festival of Death | 06' 31" | |||||||||
| 2 | The Act of Being Polite | 01' 06" | |||||||||
| 3 | Perfect Love | 01' 19" | |||||||||
| 4 | In Between Dreams | 02' 12" | |||||||||
| 5 | The Simple Song | 01' 05" | |||||||||
| 6 | Ship's A' Going Down | 02' 29" | |||||||||
| 7 | Jambalaya (On The Bayou) | 05' 02" | |||||||||
| 8 | Hello Skinny | 03' 48" | |||||||||
| 9 | Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats ? | 04' 48" | |||||||||
| 10 | Broccoli & Saxophone | 01' 57" | |||||||||
| 11 | Eloïse | 56" | |||||||||
| 12 | Oh Lord, It's Lonely | 01' 49" | |||||||||
| 13 | The Knife Fight/The Importance Of Evergreen | 07' 36" | |||||||||
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 Narcophony is not done with visiting houses, haunted by the memories of these last thirty years most frantic musicians. After Nurse With Wound, they are getting down to the mind-expanding work of the most phenomenal San Francisco pop combo: The Residents.
Armed with a number of musicians balanced around the duet made by Eric Aldéa and Ivan Chiossone, with Christine Ott (collaborations with Radiohead, Yann Tiersen... - Ondes Martenot), François Cuilleron (ex-Bästard- guitars and violin) and Hasmig Fau (cello), Narcophony recycles 13 tracks chosen among the very first works of The Residents (from 1974 to 1985) with the same characteristic unrestrained energy of the avant-garde band.
Reached by the playfulness of contemporary Kraftwerk, the band turns on an amazing switch from analogical to acoustic. Keeping most of the patterns for the timeless Ondes Martenot (father of electronic music), the band takes up the mischievous orchestrations with impulsive strings and other intrusions of rare instruments. A weird masterstroke that intensifies the most resourceful period of The Residents.
From “Mystical “Festival of Death†to fleeting adventures of “Vileness Fatsâ€, “Narcophony play The Residents†makes a far-reaching diversion. Taking over highly condensed “Commercial Albumâ€, (1980), they dissect its pop hits each of them being heightened by an extra minute, and enter the world’s saddest songs hall of fame with cult track “Hello Skinnyâ€.
To revisit American music’s history through a series, was one of The Residents ambitious projects, stopped while in progress. Narcophony keeps the magic up with “Jambalaya†by Hank Williams, and makes it slide in an unlikely acrobatic way.
Narcophony also made a new version of another abortive plan: fiery “Whatever happened to Vileness Fatsâ€, the ardent soundtrack to a feature-length film put on hold, eventually finds, here an unexpected outcome.
As The Residents did before with The Beatles on their first album “meet The Residents†(1974), Narcophony, as a master, plays with raw material and carries on a history full with vivid developments, with the same agitation as their elders from Texas once did.
01. The festival of death 02. The act of being polite 03. Perfect love 04. In between dreams 05. The simple song 06. Ship's a' going down 07. Jambalaya (on the bayou) 08. Hello Skinny 09. Whatever happened to vileness fats ? 10. Broccoli & saxophone 11. Eloïse 12. Lord, it's lonely 13. The knife fight / the importance of evergreen
