Dirty Forums - youtube: amorphous androgynous live in moscow

a few years ago...

honestly - their albums are MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than what you'd think if you only heard this live performance

seriously.

MUZIK (r.i.p.) magazine actually gave their first 'hippy' album - "The Isness" SIX out of five stars...

then like total idiots, they re-did a few of the tracks and changed the sequence, and released a (lesser) version of that album. Only a few thousand copies of the "perfect" album were pressed. If memory serves me, that (perfect) version only exists on a few promo's and like 2,500 (at most) were released in the US (I have one, YAY!)

oh yea - and there was an EP for the track "Mello Hippo Disco Show", which had multiple translations/versions of the title track (similar to how they'd release EP's for like... "My Kingdom" , "Cascade", "Lifeforms" etc etc

then later more of the songs / versions of songs from the better version were released on a disc called "The Otherness" ... then about a year or so went by and FSOL released another album called "Alice in Ultraland" (or something to that effect) which had more new material, and some stuff still left from the "Isness" sessions

...THEN...

ANOTHER album came out - again consisting of both new material and stuff from the original Isness Sessions which were incredibly prolific. That album is called "The Peppermint Tree"

oh - I forgot ...
before "The Isness" they released "Papua New Guinea Translations" which was an EP that was sort of a bridge between the sound/vibe of their previous album (which I think was Dead Cities, right?) and "the Isness" - you still had some overt electronic elements, but there were definite analogue and psychedelic aspects creeping in.