Unsavoury Products

Unsavoury Products
Studio album by The Black Dog & Black Sifichi
Released 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre IDM
Length 65:27
Label Hydrogen Dukebox duke097cd
The Black Dog & Black Sifichi chronology
Music for Adverts (and Short Films)
(1996)		 Unsavoury Products
(2002)		 Silenced
(2005)

Unsavoury Products is the fifth full-length studio album by The Black Dog featuring Parisian spoken word artist Black Sifichi. The album was released in 2002 on CD. It is meant as a tribute to William S. Burroughs and inspired by The Black Dog’s collaboration with Burroughs before his death.[1] Ken Downie explained: "We’d sent tapes to William Burroughs, and were waiting for him to deliver some spoken word back to us, but he fell ill, and died. Mr Sifichi sent us a pair of blue underpants he'd found in Paris, so he was the natural person to help us finish off the album. We got on very well, and had a lot of fun making it." [2]
Black Sifichi remembers: "The Black Dog heard my first album with Negative Stencil 'Tick' and I made contact when I heard about their Burroughs project. I thought I could do a 'cameo' reading of one of Bill's texts somewhere on it. Anyway, The Black Dog loved my voice, how it was delivered. After Bill's death a demo of mine inspired them to produce a homage to Burroughs with me. Unsavoury Products has a message... the majority of traditional electronic albums do not. It is a way to use musical aesthetics and seamlessly merge them with words. In many ways the album is closer to art than most music media/products, which are constrained by commercial demands."[3]
At the time of the album's production the band considered itself a "multimedia collective" with members Martin (in charge of creative design and development), Steve Ash (studio production) and Ross Knight (guitar) besides Ken Downie: "We're essentially a collective in the Warhol 'Factory' sense; we float in and out of the group depending on the projects we're working on, independently or together." [4]

Track listing

  1. "What Do They Want?" - 2:56
  2. "Dogbite" - 4:20
  3. "Secret Biscuits" - 3:49
  4. "If I Were King" - 3:29
  5. "B4 the Sky Was Built" - 3:34
  6. "Dear Ron" - 3:03
  7. "Invisible Things" - 4:13
  8. "Let's Talk Music" - 4:25
  9. "Mental Health Hotline" - 2:07
  10. "Va Zee" - 1:32
  11. "Image Poem" - 2:12
  12. "New York Dorx" - 3:03
  13. "Someone at the Office" - 3:04
  14. "Science Tells Us" - 6:01
  15. "Wishing Well" - 4:24
  16. "White Feathers" - 1:51
  17. "Interview" - 4:00
  18. "Voodoo" - 2:17
  19. "Inconspicuous Audiometric" - 1:48
  20. "Pigeon Chest" - 3:10

Composed by the Black Dog & Black Sifichi, produced by the Black Dog

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hybridmagazine.com/level/interviews/0702/black-dog.shtml
  2. ↑ http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/interviews/blackdogiw.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.hybridmagazine.com/level/interviews/0702/black-dog.shtml
  4. ↑ http://www.hybridmagazine.com/level/interviews/0702/black-dog.shtml


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.