Test Dept "Materia Primera" Invisible Records INV084CD (40:44)
Landrites (10:16)
Firedance (8:07)
Pipe and Didgeridoo (2:08)
More of Everything (6:57)
Apocalypse (7:16)
Funeral (6:00)
Overall impression: blah. "Materia.." is comprised of recordings taken from the soundtracks to the shows "Materia Primera", performed in Holland, Italy, Finland and Denmark 1988-89, and the "Unacceptable Face of Freedom", performed in London in 1986. Unlike "Proven in Action", the music on this disc is much more dark and subdued ... there's nothing in the way of percussive fury here like on "Proven..". Most tracks are heavily reverbed, muddy mish-moshes of percussion, samples, piano, orchestral bits and other misc sounds, all instrumental. Unfortunately, it's a rather boring and unevenful listen ... "Pipe and Didgeridoo" is just that, and it's the most interesting 2 minutes of the disc. Pick up the Invisible Records live comp "Drug Test One" instead for some great live Test Dept ...
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Where did I get this cd? - borrowed it from a local library for 2 weeks.