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  This is not just a collection of covers. Neither is it "music" or "art". This is the first album from the détournement unit pro et contra. Recorded on February 23 this year and now being rush-released.
  From the north to the north, gifts from the North, castle to castle, flying down from the north...
  For our four Brothers Karamazov lunatic performance this time, we are joined by Koichi Nakaya, of Kansai favourites Nasca Car and Hijokaidan. Itsuro's sampled rhythms create the still eye around which Nakaya's theremin and synth cyclones whirl and turn. Meanwhile Louis Inage, who dares to drive part-time for right-wing lunatics and electioneering politicians as they pollute Japanese streets with amplified rhetoric, brings the most solid of low-end bass. Over all of that hot mess, Fukuoka Rinji, armed just a handheld mic and a cymbal, declaims his poetry.
  Nearly 150 years after that chance meeting on an operating table of a sewing machine and an umbrella, and exactly 50 years since that Paris festival where we felt a sandy beach hidden beneath its paving slabs.
  Rhythms locked into a circle of repetition, layered experiments with language, with the occasional simultaneous shouted phrase. These are the means we choose to strip bare contemporary "music" and "art" that continue their eternal usurpation by the smoothly self-driving machines of capitalism, to loudly challenge this reality.
  Twenty-first century punk rock. Let us connect you to an acoustic machine, one driven by the respiration of poetic oscillation.
  
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