Bikini Tennis Shoes, by Le Forte Four

Bikini Tennis Shoes

by Le Forte Four

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1.	Ka-Bella-Cha-Cha 00:41	buy track
2.	Some Problem With The Cord Or Something 00:31	buy track
3.	Ka-Bella-Binsky-Bungo (excerpt) 06:27	buy track
4.	Good Worker 00:44	buy track
5.	Aye Ma Ma (I'm Amok) 00:12	buy track
6.	Meanwhile Back At The Tulip Boat, Stinky And Gus Make Warplanes - Your Living Constitution (Dies) 00:33	buy track
7.	Before Docking In Space 00:19	buy track
8.	Candy Wrapper Blues - A Little Sloppy Still 00:18	buy track
9.	Bikini Tennis Shoes (One Pair) 04:15	buy track
10.	Joe's Nose Solo 00:49	buy track
11.	Song Of The Electric Drill 00:18	buy track
12.	I Can't Even Think - On The Dawning Of A Giant Face 00:35	buy track
13.	What Do You Do, Radiator? - The Grocery Store Is My Heaven 00:31	buy track
14.	Fade It Out 00:12	buy track
15.	The Pope Speaks 00:23	buy track
16.	Crank Up The Kids 01:48	buy track
17.	Bongo Madness 03:29	buy track
18.	Ka-Bella Reprise (An Excerpt In 5 Movements) 06:06	buy track
19.	Steven, Steven 01:01	buy track
20.	Sonnet 01:06	buy track
21.	Ballad De Forte Four 00:26	buy track
22.	It's Raining Bongos 01:05	buy track
23.	They Are Asleep 04:31	buy track
24.	Music Hall Bootleg (Excerpt) 00:18	buy track
25.	Painting The Roses Red 00:26	buy track
26.	Enough Fun - That Feedback Again 01:01	buy track

about

The origins of Le Forte Four are those of the Los Angeles Free Music Society itself. Chip Chapman joined forces with Rick Potts (and shortly thereafter Tom and Joe Potts), taking up the LAFMS name in 1974. Ultimately baptizing themselves Le Forte Four, they began threading imagined lines between John Cage and The Residents, Cecil Taylor and Henry Cow – generating sounds completely unlike any of these and anything since.

The inaugural release on the eponymous LAFMS imprint with only 200 copies pressed originally, Bikini Tennis Shoes is a staggering piece of anti-music that remains as refreshingly ground-clearing today as it was when it first appeared in 1975. Its 40 minutes (parceled out across nearly as many tracks) chart forays into free improvisation, Buchla misuse, filtered noise, begrudging and damaged melodic sorties (from the Star-Spangled Banner to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring") and healthy doses of basement pablum.

Le Forte Four emerged out of the lethargic American '70s as a locus where, in their own words, "gamelans and ragas merged with serial and chance compositions finally melting together with instructional records and Beatles bootlegs." A wildly eclectic rummaging of postwar culture and 20th century sound, Le Forte Four's Bikini Tennis Shoes preempts punk's outsider ethos and DIY autodidactism.

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.

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released April 7, 2017

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