Augustus Pablo

Friday June 16th, 2023

Selling Points

Originally released in 1978 this version has been remastered and cut by Marco Perry (Bjork, Dennis Bovell, Massive Attack).

A:Pablo Meets Mr Bassie

B: Mr Bassie Special!

Pablo Meets Mr Bassie 7”:

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This is the re-release of our second ever Rough Trade single release.

Richard Scott was working with us, developing a mail order and then a distribution company. He had deep Jamaican connections as he had been part of the management team for Third World.

He made a deal with Joan Higgins a fifteen year old relative of Augustus Pablo who worked the Saturday shift in Pablo’s Kingston Record shop. A man called Everton Da Silva was also involved, perhaps as a go between. I always maintain this is one of the best ever Rough Trade releases, if not actually the best. One of my very bad jokes is that it was all downhill from this point. In any case it’s a monumental record and very likely justification for the whole enterprise.

-Geoff Travis, Founder & Co-owner of Rough Trade Records

Blurtations is the follow-up to Snapped Ankles’ 2018 Record Store Day release Violations, which included woodland reworkings of songs by Can, The Fugs, Joey Beltram and Comateens. On this, the woodwose have focussed their magpie eyes on the work of a single artist - Ted Milton’s post-punk Dada-jazz stalwarts Blurt. It offers another tantalising glimpse into the rarefied record collections of these elusive forest people.

Blurt are a key part of the surrealist Snapped Ankles DNA. An early iteration of the band played a version of ‘Planet You’ from different rooms of a dilapidated squat at a TOPOPHOBIA art performance night, and ‘The Fish Needs A Bike’ has found its way into the current blistering live set. They’ve recently struck up a friendship with Ted Milton, and the woodwose have been invited to DJ at Blurt’s upcoming show at London’s legendary 100 Club.

Snapped Ankles Blurtations

street date: Friday June 16 2023 file under: Rock & pop territory: World ex. Europe

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Tracklisting:

A1. Alouette

A2. Machina Machina

A3. Tube Plane

B1. Some Come

B2. The Fish Needs A Bike

B3. Planet You snappedankles.com facebook.com/snappedankles twitter.com/snappedankles instagram.com/snappedankles

• Packaged in a die-cut sleeve and pressed on yellow vinyl, Blurtations also includes a postcard which riffs on the artwork of Blurt’s self-titled debut studio album

• All six songs are available exclusively on vinyl, in a strictly limited edition of 1,200 for the world

• The EP builds on the success of 2021’s Forest Of Your Problems album, which has seen Snapped Ankles grow their reputation both in the studio and as a formidable live force

• Forest Of Your Problems flirted with an actual top 40 UK Chart Position (#41), and hit #1 in the Record Store Chart, #2 in the Indie Chart and #3 in the Vinyl Chart

• Rough Trade made FOYP their Album of the Month

• It found its way into the album of the year lists for Piccadilly (#8), Rough Trade (#27) and Jumbo (#42)

• Brooklyn Vegan have been big supporters, awarding Forest Of Your Problems Album of the Week and hosting the woodwose at their SXSW showcase

• Since the album’s release, Snapped Ankles headlined their biggest show to date at Camden’s Roundhouse, toured North America twice, played shows and festivals across Europe and ventured to South East Asia for the first time

On Forest of Your Problems:

“Forest of Your Problems takes in Krautrock, tribal rhythms, post-punk - but it winds up sounding almost nothing like anyone else” The Guardian

“The kind of hyperactive, motorik bangers that can send audiences into hysterics”

Album of the Week, Brooklyn Vegan

“One of the most intriguing bands to come out of London” Paste Magazine

The bones of a bird, stripped of flesh and feather, give no sign of the heights and depths a living bird can reach, the lengths it can travel, or the songs it can sing. The same is true of the bones of the human hand. For all their strength and delicacy, seeing them skeletal and stark obscures our knowledge of the rhythmic energy with which they engage space, the burdens they can bear, the music they can produce. Yet, in both bird and hand, the foundation of grace and motion remain. Music above all else proves this to be true. To experience a guitarist playing is to experience the hand taking flight.

This flight is the essence of all of Danny Paul Grody’s work. His compositions seem to be the sonic tracings of migrations patterns. They grant us that avian instinct to simply take to air and trust our innate knowledge of the route.

Arc Of Day is Grody’s first collection of new music since his self-released Furniture Music II in 2021 and first with Three Lobed Recordings since 2013’s Between Two Worlds. Born of explorations with Rich Douthit on drums & percussion, the album charts a path from grief and isolation to re-emergence, picking up Trevor Montgomery on bass, Chuck Johnson on pedal steel, and Jonathan Seilaff on clarinet along the way. Arc Of Day not only encapsulates the journey from bone to flesh and feather, it renews the listener like birdsong in Spring after the long Winter silence.