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Mannequin Records<\/strong> is proud to present a 2LP compilation of one of the most important Industrial bands active during the 80\u2019s in the UK.<\/p>\n

Bourbonese Qualk<\/strong> were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. Throughout this period they had a number of different line-ups but this album concentrates on the period from 1983 until 1987 with the trio of Simon Crab, Julian Gilbert and Steven Tanza. During this time the group released five albums: \u2018Laughing Afternoon\u2019, \u2018Hope\u2019, \u2018The Spike\u2019, \u2018Preparing For Power\u2019 and the self-titled \u2018Bourbonese Qualk\u2019 on their own Recloose Organisation and New International Records labels.<\/p>\n

The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work \u2013 they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and music venue (the notorious \u2018Ambulance Station\u2019) \u2013 they refused to integrate into the commercial music racket turning down publishing deals from major labels \u2013 stubbornly opting for total independence.<\/p>\n

The group are known for their political activism which was formed in the crucible of the 1980s Britain: The Miner\u2019s Strike, Falklands\/Malvinas war, Anti-fascism, Thatcherism, Moneterism, squatting\/housing, local government corruption, anti-capitalism, and Anarchism \u2013 which was further re-enforced by touring Europe and meeting like-minded groups and organisations.<\/p>\n

Bourbonese Qualk saw their music as a revolutionary cultural force \u2013 a belief that radical musical forms must be part of positive social change. Despite this position, the group avoided dogma, clich\u00e9 and propaganda, preferring to let their audience come to their own conclusions \u2013 their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of cynical power-politics of any color \u2013 often irritating members of the traditional \u2018organised left\u2019.<\/p>\n

In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building on the Old Kent Road in South London which they turned into a base for their activities and a co-operative for artists, musicians and writers as well as a centre for radical political activism \u2013 specifically as a co-ordinating centre for the \u2018Stop The City\u2019 anti-capitalist riots of 1984-1986. Most of the recordings on this album were recorded in their studio at the Ambulance Station.<\/p>\n

The group never record in a \u2018proper\u2019 studio (not that they could ever afford to), choosing instead to work with their own extremely basic equipment (at a time when home studios were very unusual \u2013 the unique raw sound of these recordings is the result of their choice \u2013 which now, ironically, is in vodue due perhaps to the overwhelming obliquity of \u2018clean\u2019 audio digital production tools.<\/p>\n

If Bourbonese Qualk have a legacy, it is that \u2018culture\u2019 should be reclaimed, re-defined and owned by the people, wherever they are, however small and not by the state or the market and that \u2018culture\u2019 is a vital vehicle for debate and radical change.<\/p>\n

The fight goes on. (Simon Crab, London, 2014)<\/p>\n

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Mannequin Records<\/strong> is proud to present a 2LP compilation of one of the most important Industrial bands active during the 80\u2019s in the UK.<\/p>\n

Bourbonese Qualk<\/strong> were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. Throughout this period they had a number of different line-ups but this album concentrates on the period from 1983 until 1987 with the trio of Simon Crab, Julian Gilbert and Steven Tanza. Bourbonese Qualk<\/strong> saw their music as a revolutionary cultural force \u2013 a belief that radical musical forms must be part of positive social change. Despite this position, the group avoided dogma, clich\u00e9 and propaganda, preferring to let their audience come to their own conclusions \u2013 their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of cynical power-politics of any color \u2013 often irritating members of the traditional \u2018organised left\u2019.<\/p>\n

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