Name: Lingua Franca-1
Brand: EP-4

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WRWTFWW032

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-11-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4260544824319

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

WRWTFWW032CD

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4260544824326

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

EP-4   

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records

The official reissue of cult album Lingua Franca-1 (originally released in 1983) by groundbreaking Kyoto band EP-4, available on vinyl housed in heavy 350 Gram sleeve and digipack CD. For fans of electronic, post-punk, new wave, no wave, industrial, experimental, mutant funk, proto-techno, R.N.A. Organism, Liquid Liquid, PiL, Talking Heads, Colored Music, Grauzone, David Bowie, Yello, wonderful weirdness, unique personalities, unconventional minds Straight from the delirious minds of unconventional geniuses Kaoru Sato (who had previously released an album as R.N.A. Organism on legendary Osaka label Vanity Records) and Yuji "Banana" Kawashima, Lingua Franca-1 is a seamless voyage of spellbinding mutant funk grooves, joyful post-punk explorations, synth fantasies, sexy distortions, and fluid cool-no-sweat vocals. Constantly mutating in an almost biological way (similarly to Colored Music’s self-titled album), always mysterious and seductive, sometimes reminiscing of a freaky cross between PiL, Liquid Liquid, Bowie and Yello, EP-4’s debut is hard to label, although Debonair Wave could be a legitimate way to describe this Japan’s best-kept-secret of an album.

Defying the rules wasn’t limited to sonic experimentations for band leader Kaoru Sato. To promote Lingua Franca-1, he and his crew plastered gigantic (illegal) billboards all over Shibuya and Harajuku, announcing performances in four different cities on odd hours of the same day (May 5th 1983). Other of his notable antics included originally sub-titling the album Death to the Emperor Showa causing a controversy (which led to censorship and a title-change), trying to release two albums on the same day without the concerned labels being aware of the plan or, in the R.N.A. Organism days, fooling Vanity Records into believing the demo he sent them came from a foreign band (it worked). Unique personality, unique music!

Lingua Franca-1

Music GB