Pere Ubu - Long Live Pere Ubu (CD)

All hail the survival of the UNfit. Brutal, lacking charm, no redeeming virtues - an album for our times. The Story So Far...This project, taken altogether, is a ridiculously ambitious effort. It started in the summer of 2007 as a series of songs to be inspired by Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi.' One early goal was to approach the space between songs in a new way, using connective dialog and ambient noise as bridges, while remaining true to Jarry's anti-theatrical methods. This led directly to the notion of a live 'radio play'that would unify the concert set. The motivation was not so much a 'concept' performance but a way to manage the 'silence' between songs so that the spoken word is manipulated with a jazz sensibility. [Sorry... what we wanted to do is only what we have always tried to do, which is nothing more than to make a cool mess. Lots of people don't understand this concept and so we feel obliged to tart up the language.] David Thomas planned to sing all the cast characters himself