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Artist:Kris Gietkowski
Title:Songs From The First Album By Egg
Label:  Fruits De Mer
Country:UK
Catalogue:STRANGE FISH EIGHT
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Date:2017
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 4 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
Side 1
A1Kris Gietkowski While Growing My HairBrooks, Campbell, StewartRate
A2Kris GietkowskiI Will Be AbsorbedBrooks, Campbell, StewartRate
A3Kris GietkowskiThe Song Of McGillicudie The Pusillanimous (Or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging In The Coal Cellar With Thomas)Brooks, Campbell, StewartRate
Side 2 - Symphony No. 2
B1Kris Gietkowski Movement 1Brooks, Campbell, StewartRate
B2Kris GietkowskiMovement 2Brooks, Campbell, StewartRate
B3Kris GietkowskiMovement 3Brooks, Campbell, StewartRate
B4Kris GietkowskiMovement 4Brooks, Campbell, StewartRate


Notes

First pressing 350 copies yellow vinyl in clear vinyl intended to look a bit like a poached egg.
Second pressing (also 2017) of 100 copies of yellow in a purple vinyl.
Both pressings issued in PVC stickered sleeve.

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sladesounds
3rd May 2017
 If you wondering how the cat#'s seem to work on Fruits De Mer & Regal Crabomophone, the "Strange Fish" sequence is used across both labels for a series of albums that are instrumental tracks influenced by (as they say) classic krautrock, kosmische sounds, motorik beats, progressive rock, acid-jams, minimalist and ambient music, old and new.

Original material is released on Regal Crabomophone whilst classic and obscure tracks, reinterpreted by artists are released on the Fruits De Mer label.
 

 
sladesounds
3rd May 2017
 Blagged from the Fruits De Mer website:

So I was idly having a wander round youtube, looking for inspiration/hidden gems when I happened to find a cover of a track from Egg’s first album – the first ‘out there’ album I bought (over 45 years ago), I fell in love with the original album, playing it constantly - in fact, it’s responsible for much of my obsession with music ever since.

‘While Growing My Hair’ had been posted on youtube two years ago by a group called ‘Gietek’ but had less than 1,000 views – but it was wonderful, it took me back to 1970! After much chasing, Gietek turned out to be the work of ONE MAN…Kris Gietkowski; he had recorded much of Egg’s first LP (and much more) for his own enjoyment and was a bit shocked that some silly sod with a little record label wanted to release any of it – but I did – and there IS more to come, but for now, here is most of Egg’s first, and very wonderful, first LP, re-recorded by a guy called Kris Gietkowski – I don’t think Fruits de Mer’s original aim to be “willfully obscure” has ever been summed up better.

Kris shares a little of his story….”I was born in Poland, didn't have any good instruments so I improvised. I used old radios to make their amplification circuits to distort my acc guitar and keys. I made a lot of music that way. Some of it I still have on my PC drive, for purely sentimental reasons. Very early experimental stuff. Then I moved to the UK ten years ago, got my electric and bass and keys, then Hammond organ with Leslie, then sold it and bought Nord C2, hoping to play with others. I saw England as a musician's heaven but that soon changed. I went to different jam nights, open mics, etc. My last audition - the three guys were shocked and displeased when I suggested tempo change and two drum breaks with a bass solo in one song (I never heard from them since might I add...). Why do people want all those restrictions? Isn't music a form of art?”


 


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