Bagpipe Music [Bonus Tracks]

Personnel: Ian Kearey, Robin Key (guitar); William Kelly Stair (electric bass); John Langley (drums); Charlie Llewellin (percussion); Wojtek Dmochowski (dancer).Liner Note Author: Steve Bush.Recording information: Crescent Studios, Bath, Somerset, England; The Bunker.Photographers: John Swan; Paul Graham.Unknown Contributor Role: Gerard Langley.Originally released in 1981 on the tiny U.K. indie Heartbeat, Bagpipe Music is the sole full-length release by Bristol new wavers the Art Objects. Though fairly obscure at the time, Bagpipe Music has developed a strong cult following over the decades since its release, since a rejiggered version of this band -- singer Gerard Langley, drummer John Langley, and non-musician dancer Wojtek Dmochowski, with a new guitarist and bassist -- re-emerged as the Blue Aeroplanes shortly after the Art Objects disbanded. Though especially in their early days, the Blue Aeroplanes were noted for an experimental bent and poetic attitude, the later group was far m