Rudimentary Peni - Wilfred Owen The Chances One Sided 7" Blues in retrospect

in retrospect

captures a pivotal era in Moniek's artistic development

Though no determined concept preceded the session a mutual desire to occupy Saint-Pancrace Church and investigate its 1848 organ in a profane manner seemed to bond all the players thus allowing them to do a « tentative d’épuisement » of the place over a week of improvisations and form emerging compositions

There's echos of Sydney groups Half High and pre-doof Severed Heads

and a cynical reach to the empowering texts of soul and house music

Rudimentary Peni - Wilfred Owen The Chances One Sided 7" Blues in retrospectIt feels like appropriate times for Rudimentary Peni to be back in the dialogue, as their catalogue is a rip roaring soundtrack to testing times of discomfort. A "death rock" group with no chill, no stylised gothic theatrics, 100% anguish and claustrophobia. That being said, the sole song on this record represents an unfamiliar sludgy mode of RP, but the unique creative voice and intensity remains. Let's hope this is the beginning of a greater