5410377021020

One + One By One

Minimal Compact

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Format: CD

Cat No: CRAM1521

Release Date:  25 September 2020

Label:  Crammed Discs

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5410377021020

Genres:  Rock  Middle East  

  • Description

    This reissue combines post-punk band Minimal Compact's first two releases.

    'One', Minimal Compact's debut mini-album, was recorded and released in 1981. The band was a trio at the time, consisting of Samy Birnbach, Berry Sakharof and Malka Spigel, with the assistance of various other musicians. The opening track, the emblematic Statik Dancin', soon became a classic and this mini-album immediately put Minimal Compact on the map.

    'One By One' was the first full-length album by the band, who had become a quartet with the adjunction of drummer Max Franken. Recorded in 1982, the band's sound of that period is best exemplified by a song like "Babylonian Tower", with its driving rhythm, funky guitar, apocalyptical lyrics and Middle-Eastern flavouring.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Statik Dancin'
      • 2. Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera)
      • 3. Ready-Made Diary
      • 4. To Get Inside
      • 5. Happy Babouge
      • 6. Invocation (For Things To Come)
      • 7. Cold Life
      • 8. Take Me Away
      • 9. It Takes A Lifetime
      • 10. Disguise
      • 11. Babylonian Tower
      • 12. Orkha Bamidbar (The Wandering Song)
      • 13. Head Section
      • 14. Morpheus Secrets
      • 15. Ships