The Art Of Gentle Revolution

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Album Info

Release Date: 2005-09

Label: Contempo Records

This luxury edition boxset contains the artist cut of all four of Pankows fab albums "Freiheit Für Die Sklaven" (1987), "Gisela" (1989), "Omne Animal Triste Post Coitum" (1990) and "Treue Hunde" (1992) on double-folded digipack CDs, plus a bonus CD in a cardboard sleeve featuring 4 tracks originally released only on the 12-Inch "69Sixtynine69" that accompanied the ultra-limited (100 copies) marble cover edition of "Gisela" (aka "Marble Album"). The box also includes an 80-page book called "Pankow - The Movie" featuring lyrics, pictures, notes and US and German tour memorabilia as edited by original frontman and singer/dancer Alex Spalck. In the box there is also a CD-box sized one-side printed card with artwork and label "explicit original artwork under this seal".
Re-elaborated by the band mastermind, Maurizio FM Fasolo.

The CDs contain bonus tracks and partly different tracklistings to the original releases.

1: "Freiheit Für Die Sklaven" (Conte 2K113 CD)
Recorded in June 1987 at Transeuropa, Torino.
Mixed in September 1987 somewhere in Florence.
Artwork created at SSS.
Sleeve lists an additional Gimme More (Much More) as track 1-02; but that track is missing from the disc itself. This is the actual content.

2: Gisela (Conte 2KC131 CD)
Mixed in winter '88 - spring '89.
Graphics created at SSS.
Cut in Rome.
2-01, 2-03, 2-05, 2-10 recorded in Florence.
2-02, 2-04, 2-06, 2-07, 2-08, 2-09 recorded in Turin.
"Warm Leatherette" originally performed by The Normal.

3: Omne Animal Triste Post Coitum (Conte 2KC161 CD)[
2: Helter Skelter, Los Angeles, CA.
3: Unit, Hamburg, BRD.
4: University Union Sound Pomona, L.A., CA.
5: Respectable St. Cafe W., Palm Beach, FL.
7: Masquerade, Atlanta, GA.
8: JKH, Rostock, DDR.
10: The Shadow, Kansas City, MO.
11: Unit, Hamburg, BRD.
12: Kassel, Factory, BRD.
13: 1st Avenue, Minneapolis, MN.
Graphics created at SSS.
"Warm Leatherette" originally performed by The Normal.
"Der Mussolini" originally performed by DAF.

4: Treue Hunde (Conte 2KC171 CD)
Produced at SSS and Blue Velvet in Florence.
Mixing & additional production at Unit 3, London, except 4-07 mixed at Blue Velvet, Florence.

5: "69Sixtynine69" (Tempo 2K123 CD)
Artwork created at SSS, Florence & Buenos Aires.
"Warm Leatherette" originally performed by The Normal.

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