The Sabres Of Paradise – Haunted Dancehall – 2LP

1994 second album by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. A concept album with accompanying text for each track by James Woodbourne, it also includes additional production by Portishead and Mr Scruff. Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton, contains “Theme” for the first time on the 2LP edition.

The sense of the album being a soundtrack itself is underpinned by the accompanying text for each track, rumoured
to have been penned by Weatherall himself under a pseudonym, each text fragment joining up to form a suitably grimy, low-lit short story. The Guardian later summed up “Haunted Dancehall” as “techno’s first concept album”.

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