press release
2007-06-29
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Manyc Records releases ROCK 1 2005-2006 LIVE, a compilation album featuring Bandamous, Strip Darling, Tramponaline

2007-06-29, Friday - USA: Bronx, New York

Experts are in agreement: Manyc Records has released ROCK 1 2005-2006 LIVE, a compilation album of Bandamous, Strip Darling, and Tramponaline music.

The 10 tracks were painstakingly funded by the sale of design and sexual favors. Given that the oldest musician is 89 and the youngest 11, the second source if very much at odds with state law and good taste.

The record has emptied Manyc's coffers, so its recording studio in the South Bronx will have to be completed using the neighborhood's abundant supply of sidewalk ferns and soiled cardboard.

Sound material is compiled from live performances in 2005 and 2006, which will surely be remembered as some of the most terrorific years in American history. Not that the bands and their audiences are hipster moral relativists, blanks, or nihilists though. No, no, just good to keep things in perspective.

The tracks were recorded in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, New York, NY, by baboon engineers, using skulls and helmeted nipples, lurking in the shadows of labyrinthine housing projects, whose residents cheers and feared the concurrent influx of masquerade girls in expensive carnival masks.

Like a handful of others, Manyc Records is different than punk, hip-hop and rave revivalism. The people who make the music don't need to revive anything. They never let the forms die, because their affinity for the music is not an opportunistic charade. If people want to go around pretending it's 1977, 1983 or 1995, that's fine.

Manyc musicians know that the year is 2007, that the music they make is for the ages, that if and when others enjoy it, the part will only be made better for everyone.

Thank you.

For further information please contact Jacquelyn Ryal at +1-718-401-1301 or email jacquelyn_ryal@sputnyc.com