PATAPHYSICAL REVUE

Raudelunas , PATAPHYSICAL REVUE . Say Day-Bew Records 01 lp. Recorded 1975. USA Pressing. Subtitled Starring Ron Pate's Debonairs featuring Rev. Fred Lane.

recording features Davey Williams , LaDonna Smith , Anne LeBaron , Adrian Dye and many others.

Raudelunas 'Pataphysical Revue was an improvisational musical/stage event performed in March 1975 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. While the show itself was sparsely attended, it did launch the careers of several noteworthy musicians. Since its release, the recording of the event has created a minor cult following.

The Revue was a one-off concert in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1975 - part of the second Raudalunas Exposition - trapped on tape by chance or no one would have believed it. A revue that remains consistently outside any genre, culture or canon of taste: from breathtaking versions of 'My kind of Town' and 'Volare' - Las Vegas style, feat. the delirious and scary Debonairs Bigband - through Anne Lebaron's score for taped frogs, oboe, voices and guitar (Davey Williams). Then there's The Captains of Industry, who play domestic appliances, the legendary Blue Denim deals without the Arms; and Neo Roman combo Nubis Oxis Quarum - with their hit 'The Chief Divisions of the Peoples of Gaul. All this is tied veeringly together by ubiquitous MC Fred Lane - master of bad taste. Performed by a large company (including LeBaron, Williams, laDonna Smith and Craig Nutt) to an audience who have to make themselves heard during rather than after the pieces. Taking no chances, the company piped in their own hysterical applause through the PA. This was and is an adamantine gem.

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