Canard

'Canard' by This Window was released in Belgium in 1989 and appears on the album 'Extraction' released by eetapes(Catalog#: ET06). The movie was created between 1987 and 2008.

Q U E S T I O N S - below is the original press release from 1990.

EXTRACTION.......now this is a really fine kettle of fish.

Q. What do four people do in a bathroom with copious quantities of fine French champagne?

A. They get very drunk, take all their clothes off and get into the over-filled bath, drink more shampoo and record a cassette for EE Tapes of Belgium.

That above statement is true for the tracks, 'The Works of William Shakespeare,' 'There's Not Enough Champagne; and "Salle de Bain" The rest of the C40 is This Window at its most serious and radical. Brutalism, no slick editing here (it is really hard to get a butchered edited feel without sounding as though the person in control is a DORK - the raw edges of Extraction took a lot of work.)

The main difference between this tape and the previous tapes is that we forgot most of our rock! folk/punk roots and got on with the problem of recording a new cassette.
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R E V I E W

GAJOOB:Unlike Jude the Obscure, which mixes 'songs' with its concrete music imagery, Extraction is total imagery. It doesn't work nearly as well. There are titles for different pieces; but wherever these separate pieces might end and another one begin is unrecognisable. This is ultimately an outstanding sound collage tape, executed with artistry; but the interplay I loved so much on Jude the Obscure is not present here.

SOUND: good to excellent.

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