A track-for -track reimagining of Van Morrison's contractual obligation album, recorded to end his contract with Bang records in 1967. Although never officially released until the Complete Bang Sessions compilation in 2002, the music was widely bootlegged and had a kind of legendary status among lovers of the marginal and all things wonky. Thirty one hot slices of spite for your delectation. Enjoy!

Bang and the Bert is Gone! An Open Letter to Van Morrison

Scream And Holler

Stomp And Scream

Shake And Roll

Twist And Shake

Jump And Thump

Calling All A - Holes (Tremendous Version)

Star Family - Meine Elend

ATMO

There Will Always Be ****** (Diarmuid Mac Diarmada on Drums)

lamentations tango

Sound of the fire.
A deep and deliberate dissonance.
A flash to those already there.
Friends of minds entwined.

Samhain - Sound Of The Fire

Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene
Book 5 Canto 6 verse 5

As if before she had not counted trew.
  For houres but dayes; for weekes, that passed were,
  She told but moneths, to make them seeme more few:
  Yet when she reckned them, still drawing neare,
Each hour did seeme a moneth, & euery moneth a yeare


10/8 [akin to Armenian Jurjina rhythm] with emphasis on 1[3]468
and some 3/4 or 3/8 and 4/4

Twist And Shake

Diarmuid MacDiarmada

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