A Grape Dope - Arthur King Presents A Grape Dope: Backyard BangersVinyl LP pressing. A Grape Dope (John Herndon of Tortoise)'s installment in our Arthur King Presents experimental album series. Herndon describes it as "a collage of sounds found and recorded in various places and in various ways and then glued together with some rhythm, some space, melody, harmony, noise," adding, "I hope it reads like a slice of my record collection hip hop, punk, disco jazz, metal, noise, house, techno, comedy, various others."

to invent a path of one's own

shock-headed musical comedian

All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios

this album associates the gentle melancholy that impregnates Schubert's lieder as arranged and reappropriated by Jean-Luc Fafchamps : here is an atypical cycle of melodies as a kind of progressive contamination of the Viennese master's music by sounds taken from the Belgian composer

"His lines are not so much melodic variation

Basilea - Licht Des Ostens

The Fugees and many more

Partly remastered from the original tapes and provided with the original covers

A masterpiece

Together the trio weaves a sumptuous tapestry of Persian and Azerbaijani music to relax and inspire the listener

Abandoned by her lover Anatol

gatefold sleeve