The Red Krayolas with Art and Language - Kangaroo
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1981 Housekeeping
The Red Krayolas with Art and Language
Kangaroo
Genre: Semi-accessible art rock that isn’t really rock but has rock instruments.
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollack 1 & 2
I don’t know much about either of these projects but they hooked up with each other and put out a weird-ass record that, unfortunately for you, dear reader, requires more attention to content than I have the bandwidth.
I’m not a lover of post-modern music. I used to love the genre in art. I was a huge fan of Dadaism. I did a musical in college about the movement. I played Tristan Tzara. It was weird. I dry humped a female impersonator on stage and air guitared like Pete Townshend. I almost got tossed out of NYU for being in it as a Freshman. My 60something grandmother from Poland who escaped Hitler saw that show. I don’t begin to imagine I know what went through her mind when she saw that.
But my mother thought it was just fine and dandy, 60s radical artist, she.
It was the singular most important performance experience of my college life.
There was a crazy actress who was in it and was JUST getting divorced so she wanted to screw all my roommates, except that 3 of them were gay.
I have no idea what we were doing. It was an insane project. I got it because I was an usher for Fool For Love at Circle in the Square so I could see the show and the other ushers were the director and 2 performers in the show. They needed someone to play Tzara.
I did a LOT of research on him and the movement. I still have my dog eared copy of Seven Dada Manifestoes and Lampisteries.
I grew out of that movement over the last 30 years even though it’s complete ridiculousness informed my worldview for the rest of my life. And, no, I am not a big Surrealism fan, which was sort of an outgrowth of Dada.
Duchamp. Ball. Ray. I loved those guys.
And I think these guys would have fit in perfectly with that movement.
This is Dada-Rock. And the more I listened the further down the rating fell.
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