(OFF) Krankschaft, New album available for FREE download.

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

I've met some sexy archaeologists, but can't remember any clearly from Time Team. :)  Not that I can clearly remember the others, either .....

Cheers,
Carl

On 19 Jan 2011, at 08:19 , Steve Pond wrote:

> Cheers Jon!
> 
> I'm forwarding your note to the author of Sexy Archaeologist, because
> my accusation that he'd ruined Time Team for a generation wasn't what
> he wanted to hear!
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:02:18 +0000, you sent through the ether:
> 
>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Steve Pond wrote:
>> 
>>> Just before Christmas Krankschaft held a competition which entailed
>>> people sending in their song lyrics or poems and we'd turn the best
>>> one into a recording.
>>> 
>>> Well, we got carried away and turned the best 10 into an album.
>>> 
>>> So to celebrate the New Year and to counteract the slow slide into
>>> recession we're making it available for free via our website.
>>> 
>>> It's got everything from Space rock to Edwardian music hall and we had
>>> great fun making it. So make the most of the ridiculous price and nab
>>> a copy of Krankschaft's Song Poem album for yourself at:
>>> 
>>> www.krankschaft.com
>> 
>> 	I have done this, and it's been on surprisingly heavy rotation, 
>> surprising I mean only because the whole thing was thrown together in two 
>> weeks, says the website. Doesn't show! Okay, not all of it is sparking my 
>> interest, but I would especially recommend `Commotion', which shows how 
>> much difference interesting (and, okay, a bit dramatic) words can make to 
>> space-rock, `Brundlefly', which is compellingly creepy electro again more 
>> or less made by the *odd* words, and `Sexy Archaeologist', a frank and 
>> gritty excursus[1] on a dilemma that has probably faced any of us who work 
>> on the distant past at some point, I know it has me. For the rest you 
>> probably have to make up your own mind, but it's certainly worth trying. 
>> Congratulations, Steve and via you Fred and also Mick (hurrah for whose 
>> return to the drums!) for making producing an album of new music in about 
>> ten different styles in a fortnight look so easy! Yours all,
>> 							     Jon
>> 
>> 
>> [1] Actually, all three of the words `frank',`gritty' and `excursus' are 
>> lies; it's more of a smuttier rewrite of the Bonzos' `Tent' to the tune of 
>> `The Intergalactic Laxative'. But none the worse for that! as I'm sure Viv 
>> Stanshall's ghost would agree.
>> ObCD: Star One - _Space Metal_ (because the taste barriers are already 
>> down now)
> 

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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