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Label:WRWTFWW
Cat-No:wrwtfww032
Release-Date:26.10.2018
Configuration:Vinyl Album Excl
Barcode:4260544824319
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Label:WRWTFWW
Cat-No:wrwtfww032
Release-Date:26.10.2018
Configuration:Vinyl Album Excl
Barcode:4260544824319
NO SALES TO JAPAN- Beautiful 1 LP Edition 140g Vinyl, Heavy 350gsm Sleeve, Sticker

WRWTFWW Records is extremely excited to present the official reissue of cult album Lingua Franca-1 (originally released in 1983) by groundbreaking Kyoto band EP-4, available on vinyl housed in heavy 350gsm sleeve and digipack CD.

Straight from the delirious minds of unconventional geniuses Kaoru Sato (who had previously released an album as R.N.A. Organism on legendary Osaka label Vanity Records) and Yuji "Banana" Kawashima, Lingua Franca-1 is a seamless voyage of spellbinding mutant funk grooves, joyful post-punk explorations, synth fantasies, sexy distortions, and fluid cool-no-sweat vocals. Constantly mutating in an almost biological way (similarly to Colored Music's self-titled album), always mysterious and seductive, sometimes reminiscing of a freaky cross between PiL, Liquid Liquid, Bowie and Yello, EP-4's debut is hard to label, although "Debonair Wave" could be a legitimate way to describe this Japan's best-kept-secret of an album.

Defying the rules wasn't limited to sonic experimentations for band leader Kaoru Sato. To promote Lingua Franca-1, he and his crew plastered gigantic (illegal) billboards all over Shibuya and Harajuku, announcing performances in four different cities on odd hours of the same day (May 5th 1983). Other of his notable antics included originally sub-titling the album Death to the Emperor Showa causing a controversy (which led to censorship and a title-change), trying to release two albums on the same day without the concerned labels being aware of the plan or, in the R.N.A. Organism days, fooling Vanity Records into believing the demo he sent them came from a foreign band (it worked). Unique personality, unique music!


Tracklisting LP
A1. Robothood Process
A2. The Frump Jump
A3. Similar
A4. Coconut
B1. E-Power
B2. Talkin' Trash
B3. Broken Bi-Psycle
B4. Tide Gauge

- For fans of electronic, post-punk, new wave, no wave, industrial, experimental, mutant funk, proto-techno, R.N.A. Organism, Liquid Liquid, PiL, Talking Heads, Colored Music, Grauzone, David Bowie, Yello, wonderful weirdness, unique personalities, unconventional minds.

- Official reissue of cult album Lingua Francia-1 by Japan's best kept secret EP-4 aka RNA Organism.
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