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it owes as much to the busted waltzes of Lambchop and the homespun lo-fi folk of Little Wings (whose Kyle Field appears on the album via a spoken intermission) as it does to the songwriters and performers who provide its source material

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Are we convinced we compete in a playing field so fundamentally and institutionally unleveled

CARAMBOLAGE - s/t LP Funeral Doom After nodding off to theWith the first demo tapes in circulation, Burkhardt Zensor Seiler organized a gig for Carambolage in the hip Kreuzberg club SO36. At a time when anything that could be labelled Neuen Deutschen Welle (German New Wave) was stamped accordingly, the trio played by their own rules. The eponymous debut album Carambolage, produced by Rio Reiser and R. P. S. Lanrue in the summer of 1980 and released on the Scherben label David Volksmund Produktion, could not