Cor Gout is no unknown Person in the Dutch leftfield arts & musicscene due his main job as singer, lyricist & composer withTrespassers W, a unfortunately often overlooked outfit when it comes toremarkable independent music. Here, various sidesteps are compiledcarefully - some live, some studio, most are sung in Dutch but a fewalso in English. The recordings, made between the late 80's and thelate 90's, are all remastered and mostly remixed for this limitededition of 200 CD-Rs and packed neatly in an oversized artprint folder.This nearly one hour-long compilation offers a wide range of musicalstyles: CG + Dodo Band offer nearly cabaret like jazz, CG + de R:IPdrop the cabaret part, CG + Dull Schicksal dive with "Singalong Song"into the guitar pop realms of the early Monochrome Set, CG + Wim Oudik(ex- Trespasser W.) and CG + Frank van den Bos (still- Trespassers W.)tend to jump into altered chansons, CG + Luc Houtkamp do a nearlyspoken word piece originally recorded for a radio show, CG + AlainNeffe (Insane Music, Belgium) get a little bit creepy, not very faraway from The Legendary Pink Dots, and the final piece "Gemobiliseerd"with Moebius & Haks & De Joode is a live excerpt that evolvesnearly into a dancefloor track, with contra bass set against akeyboarder and drum programmer.
More Contributors are involved but I guess I'll stop for now andrecommend this release to anyone who likes true alternative music waybeyond any marketing targets and stylistic limitations. Get hold of itif you can.
samples:
- Betrail (with Alain Neffe)
- Singalong Song (with Dull Shicksal)
- Tears of the Dodo (with the Dodo Band)
