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Barry Humphries' Melbourne Dada Group - Buy Kellogg's Bulk!

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Artefacts of  Australian Experimental Music: 1930 – 1973 is a landmark  compilation CD documenting the forgotten pioneers of Australian music.  For full  details, track listing and audio samples, go to http://ShameFileMusic.com

I will be chatting to  Fenella Kernabone from The Sound Lab about the CD on JJJ Sunday night from 11pm  – tune in or stream from http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/


Melbourne Dada Group (featuring Barry Humphries) – Buy Kellogg's Bulk!

Best known for his Dame Edna Everage  character, Barry Humphries began his stage career as an 18 year-old in  Melbourne in a series  of Dada-influenced performances.  For the  first time "Wubbo Music" by Humphries' Melbourne Dada Group is officially  released, on Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 – 1973.

Humphries says "Wubbo" was a pseudo  Aboriginal word that means "nothing", and was used to distinguish the group's  activities from European Dadaists (the Melbourne group at  this time had not heard any of the European Dada or Futurist recordings).  Recorded in 1952, this is the earliest known  experimental recording made in  Australia.  In the context of conservative 1950s  Australia; with its  thumping piano dirge, whistles, hammers, gramophone recordings and shouted  advertising slogans ("Kellogg's bulk!); the recording conveys an iconoclastic  spirit that is peculiarly Australian.

Pre-order your copy of  Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music:  1930 – 1973 compilation CD for the special price of AU$23ppd  (US$17.30ppd) from http://ShameFileMusic.com .  This special deal is  only available for 1 more week.

The CD will be launched  in Brisbane this Friday  night as part of Liquid Architecture 8, with Robin Fox performing on ancient  Keith Humble synthesisers.  Friday 6 July  from 7:30pm at the  Brisbane  Powerhouse.   Melbourne launch to  follow on Friday 13 July.

Added by shamefile on 30 June 2007

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