Cooks

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Album Info

Release Date: 2007

Label: Radbab Records

From the rear of the custom-made sleeve:

"There were billions of human beings on the planet, and most of them didn't even speak a word of English. They spoke to machines, they spoke through machines, you could say they lived through machines. Even when they listened to music, it was most of the time only recorded music, that was made life food according to the taste of the season by people with no talent whatsoever. If they ever loved someone apart from their own image on a screen, it had to be only one person, and they would systematically make children together.

They ate other animals, sugar, and deadly chemicals that made them nervous, aggressive and slow. Sometimes a football game was broadcast, and entire nations would just sit at home and go through very strong emotions just watching it. Everything was big, ugly, and homogenous: the houses, the roads, the landscapes.

There was no night because they had electric lights on all the time. They used petroleum and atomic energy for thousands of other strange purpsoses too. They really liked plastic, they put plastic everywhere.

They believed some supernatural entities arbitrarily made the rules of physics and social life. They lived in an almost potetical delirium where fantasy, whim and mass movements made them take completely irrational decisions, constantly putting their lives and the lives of others in jeopardy. They went to war in the name of peace, and to work in the name of happiness."

All songs written by Stanley Brinks.
Stanley Brinks: voice, guitar, prepared guitar, upright bass, recorder.
Clemence Freschard: percussions, baroque recorder.
Recorded and mixed by Kemo in June 2007 at Dresdner Studio.
Thanks to Holly Herndon, Clemence Freschard and Dave Tattersall.

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