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Released
  
December 1992

Gondwanaland (1992)
  
Vice Squad Dick (1994)

Release date
  
1992

Label
  
Big Cat Records

Length
  
54:52

Artist
  
Steroid Maximus

Producer
  
J.G. Thirlwell

Genres
  
Jazz, Avant-garde music

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Recorded
  
Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn (Summer 1989–Summer 1990)

Similar
  
¡Quilombo!, The Radiolari, Ectopia, Rife, Boil

Gondwanaland is an album from Steroid Maximus. It was released in 1992 by Big Cat Records.

Contents

Gondwanaland is Ectopic Entertainment #ECT ENTS 003.

The album is the second Steroid Maximus album of instrumental soundtrack music to an imaginary film. Ira Robbins of Trouser Press called the music "stunning in its mischievous diversion of traditional concepts", describing the music as "Wagnerian orchestration, exotic ethnic elements, blaring big-band swing, continental drift and found-sound constructions".

Reviews:

  • John Chedsey (30 January 2000). "Satan Stole My Teddy Bear". Archived from the original on 2001-07-11. 
  • College Music Journal text at foetus.org
  • Sputnik Music review

    • Track listing

    1. "¡Quilombo!" (J. G. Thirlwell / Raymond Watts) – 4:22
    2. "Radio Raheem" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:25
    3. "First Movement: The Trojan Hearse" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 2:38
    4. "Second Movement: The Auctioneer of Souls" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 4:36
    5. "Third Movement: Crawling Goliath" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:42
    6. "Fourth Movement: Erupture" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:13
    7. "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" (Thirlwell / Lucy Hamilton) – 5:52
    8. "I Will Love You Always (Wild Irish Rose)" (Thirlwell / Don Flemming) – 6:14
    9. "Cross Double Cross" (Thirlwell / Mark Cunningham) – 4:08
    10. "Destino Matar" (Thirlwell / Away) – 3:32
    11. "Volgarity" (Thirlwell) – 2:36
    12. "Öl (Kwik-Lube)" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 1:56
    13. "Powerhouse!" (Raymond Scott) – 4:06
    14. "Homeo" (Thirlwell / Away) – 2:34
  • Tracks 3–6 are collectively titled "The Bowel of Beelzebub: A Symphony in Four Movements."
  • "¡Quilombo!" and "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" are taken from ¡Quilombo!.
  • "Powerhouse!" originally released in 1990 by Thirlwell's Garage Monsters project.

    • Personnel and production

  • J. G. Thirlwell – Performance, production, arrangements, engineering, mixing
  • Raymond Watts – Featured (1–6)
  • Lucy Hamilton – Featured (7)
  • Don Flemming – Featured (8)
  • Mark Cunningham – Featured (9)
  • Away – Featured (10, 14)
  • Roli Mosimann – Featured (12)
  • The Pizz and Buttstain – Featured (13)
  • Lin Culbertson – Flute (1)
  • Hahn Rowe – Violin (9)

    • Songs

    1Quilombo4:23
    2Radio Raheem3:25
    3The Bowel of Beelzebub: A Symphony in Four Movements First Movement: The Trojan Hearse2:39

    References

    Gondwanaland (album) Wikipedia
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