MR. McKILOWATTS DANCES

by JUDGE SMITH

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1.	Electric Brindisi 02:11	buy track
2.	Baron Aquarium 02:08	buy track
3.	Your Powerful Wink Posture 02:09	buy track
4.	The Leeds Esprit of ‘Alabaster’ Eddy Holm 02:06	buy track
5.	Mr. McKilowatts Dances High 02:04	buy track
6.	Respect the Sevenfold Wavenumber 02:11	buy track
7.	Methyl Will Sooth a Tungsten Bowstring 02:10	buy track
8.	Wilful Polyphony With Woody Wine Viscosity 02:03	buy track
9.	Mr. McKilowatts Dances Low 02:15	buy track
10.	Bop for Beer with Token Precision 02:13	buy track
11.	Let Malraux Brandish his Pudding 02:05	buy track
12.	A Snappish Concerto, Chuckwalla 02:09	buy track
13.	An Alien-Filled, Cassius Tornado 02:06	buy track
14.	Mr. McKilowatts Dances Fast 02:05	buy track
15.	The Gray Town of the Fifteenth Dogfish 02:18	buy track
16.	A Round, Cast, Shining Thing 02:02	buy track
17.	Orchestral Spud Electron, Milord 02:02	buy track
18.	Mr. McKilowatts Dances Slow 02:29	buy track
19.	A Frankfurter Blush Continuo 02:12	buy track
20.	The Texas Chrome Thieves 02:11	buy track
21.	Torpor was on the Breeze 02:04	buy track
22.	Coppery, Volleyball Combustion 02:05	buy track
23.	Mr McKilowatts Dances a Long, Long Time Ago 02:05	buy track
24.	An Evensong Trilobite 02:12	buy track
25.	Knockety-Knock, in Knocks (My Private Number) 01:56	buy track

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JUDGE WRITES:-

‘MR. McKILOWATTS DANCES’ is an album of brief, and unusual instrumental pieces, all around two minutes long.

In my youth, the BBC Light Programme often featured music by so-called ‘Novelty’ ensembles; groupings of unusual or incongruous instruments, which somehow almost always included a Xylophone. This happy tradition is continued today by the band who perform these musical miniatures of mine.

‘The Weird ‘O’s Novelty Quartet’, comprises the multi-instrumentalists O’ Henry (Ondioline), O’ Brian (Farfisa Organ), O’ Neill (Xylophone, Marimba & Vibraphone), and O’ Clare (Theremin & Percussion), together with their special guest, the irrepressible Mr McKilowatts, controversial exponent of ‘Neolithic Wild-Dance’ and notable for having been banned from folk-dance festivals on three continents.

‘MR. McKILOWATTS DANCES’ is made up of twenty-five instrumental tracks, all around two minutes long, with a playing time of 53 mins 45 secs, and all featuring the unmistakable sounds of period electronic instruments and tuned percussion.

You will hear references to the classic ‘Novelty Numbers’ of the ‘50s and ‘60s, with elements of Light Music, Lounge, Jazz, Minimalism and Advertising Jingle.These are the theme tunes from imaginary TV programmes, strange shows in fuzzy black-and-white, long forgotten now except for that damned music that hovers on the threshold of memory.

Most of the song titles are taken from the Spam Poetry Project www.judge-smith.com/wp/spam-poetry/

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released November 8, 2023

Mixed by Pat Collier at Perry Vale Studios
Photography by Redpath Creative
Graphic Design by Steven Hargraves
Cover concept by Vince Ray

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JUDGE SMITH Glastonbury, UK

Judge Smith co-founded the band Van der Graaf Generator in 1967 with Peter Hammill, & has since been involved in many music projects as writer, composer or performer. He has written stage musicals, classical & rock libretti, songs for television & a book on Life after Death; directed a prize-winning short film, & released fourteen CDs & two DVDs. He was born in 1948 & lives near Glastonbury, UK. ... more

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