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Liof Munimula

The Jonah Syndrome (LP)

Label: Garlic Records

Format: LP

Genre: Jazz

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Original and sole edition on Garlic Records of the 1988 album. Never re-issued on either vinyl or CD.

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (creased corner)

Read the name backwards and you have the joke, which tells you most of what you need to know about the sensibility. Liof Munimula have been playing collective free improvisation in Ohio since the mid-seventies, without a fixed instrumentation, without any interest in a career, and without stopping, which makes them one of the longest continuously operating improvising groups in the United States. The Jonah Syndrome was self-released on their own Garlic Records and it sounds exactly like what it is: unhurried, argumentative, occasionally very funny music made by people who play together because they want to.

Original private pressing. Midwestern free improvisation entirely off the map, and almost never seen.

Details
File under: Free Improvisation
Cat. number: GLP1
Year: 1988
Release notes:
Released through Garlic Records, which was set up for the release. More information at http://www.michaelzerang.com/reviews/ensemble/liof_munimula.htm Recorded Live at Club Lower Links, Chicago IL. June 14th & 15th 1988. Live-mixed directly to 2-track Sony 510 F-1.
Tracklist
A1Bad Shave At The Zanzibar Hotel5:30
A2Electric Leprosy4:17
A3The Terrorism Of The Code10:50
B1Lost Dog On A Dirty Beach5:46
B2A Dream In A Time Of Drought13:20
Credits
Daniel Scanlan
Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Cornet, Violin
Don Meckley
Kalimba [Hydro-kalimba], Kalimba [Electric Kalimba], Other [Shortwave Radio], Guitar [Shortwave Radio Guitar]
Michael Zerang
Percussion [Multiple], Metallophone [Tubaphone]