Ben più corposa la serie retrospettiva di album dei Pere Ubu che negli anni scorsi David Thomas ha riproposto in ordine logico/cronologico in forma di box contenenti LP, singoli, inediti e riproduzioni di materiali d'epoca, andati tutti ben presto esauriti. I volumi stanno ora per vedere nuovamente la luce, ma in diverso formato, stavolta in CD e libro: si inizia il mese prossimo con Elitism For The People 1975-1978 e Architecture of Language 1979-1982.
‘Elitism For The People 1975-1978’ is a four-disc ‘bookback’ set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the seismic debut album ‘Modern Dance’, it’s follow up ‘Dub Housing’ and ‘The Hearpen Singles’ and the incendiary ‘Live At Max’s Kansas City’. The set collects the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devasting one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends.
‘Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’ is a four disc CD bookback set with excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the ground-breaking ‘New Picnic Time’ described by one critic as the “scariest album ever recorded”. Plus ‘The Art Of Walking’ featuring Mayo Thomson of Red Crayola, ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ and a further CD of glorious out-takes and oddities, ‘Architectural Salvage’. This release features Ubu approved notes and memorabilia.