The untitled album by Zoviet France, also known as hessian, the hessian album, the burlap album or OK Boys, is the second commercial
music album
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release by the British
avant-garde
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music group
Zoviet France
Zoviet France (also known as :$OVIET:FRANCE:, Soviet France, :Zoviet-France: and latterly usually written as :zoviet*france:) are a music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textu ...
. Recorded in December 1981,
[CD edition booklet notes.] it was the first released in
1982
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in 12-inch
vinyl album
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format by the British
record label
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Red Rhino Records
Red Rhino Records, also known as Red Rhino, was a British independent record label which was developed by the independent record shop and wholesaler of the same name, all formed and run by "Tony K" (Tony Kostrzewa) and his wife Gerri. It was part ...
. A re-edited version was released in
1985
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* January 1
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by Red Rhino Records, and then re-released by the British label
Charrm in 12-inch vinyl album and
CD formats (
UK,
1990
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). The vinyl album versions are significant for being packaged in custom made
screenprinted hessian (
burlap
Hessian (, ), burlap in the United States and Canada, or crocus in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant or sisal fibres, which may be combined with other vegetable fibres to make rope, nets, ...
) bags. The CD version is different from the vinyl versions in featuring an extended version of the last track, "Ji Boys".
Production details
1982 edition
*Label:
Red Rhino Records
Red Rhino Records, also known as Red Rhino, was a British independent record label which was developed by the independent record shop and wholesaler of the same name, all formed and run by "Tony K" (Tony Kostrzewa) and his wife Gerri. It was part ...
(
UK)
*Catalogue number: RED12
*Format: 12 inch
vinyl album
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near ...
with hand made sleeve (manually
screenprinted hessian
A Hessian is an inhabitant of the German state of Hesse.
Hessian may also refer to:
Named from the toponym
*Hessian (soldier), eighteenth-century German regiments in service with the British Empire
**Hessian (boot), a style of boot
**Hessian f ...
bags)
*Artwork: original artwork and design by :$OVIET:FRANCE:
*Total running time: 00:25:17
1985 edition
*Label: Red Rhino Records (UK)
*Catalogue number: RED12
*Format: 12 inch vinyl album with hand made sleeve (manually screenprinted hessian bags)
*Artwork: original artwork and design by :$OVIET:FRANCE:
*Total running time: 00:25:17
1990 edition
*Label:
Charrm (UK)
*Catalogue numbers: CHARRMLP2 (12 inch vinyl); CHARRMCD2 (
CD)
*CD
EAN Ean may refer to:
People
* Ean Campbell (1856–1921), Anglican bishop in the early 20th century
* Ean Elliot Clevenger, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter
* Ean Evans (1960–2009), bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2001 until his de ...
: 5016266900225
*Formats: 12 inch vinyl album with commercially manufactured sleeve (screenprinted hessian bags); audio CD with commercially printed inlay and traycard
*Artwork: original artwork and design by :$OVIET:FRANCE:
*Total running time: 00:32:30
Track listing
Side one of 12-inch vinyl formats
# "Ritual"
# "Mudbast Boys"
# "Sem Boys"
# "Bring Hessa"
Side two of 12-inch vinyl formats
# "Mounw"
# "Ji Boys"
References
1982 albums
1985 albums
1990 albums
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