Taps, by Lester Square and Friends

Taps

by Lester Square and Friends

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1.	Badly Shaved Vaginas 08:56	info	buy track
2.	The Thing is...There is no Thing 06:03	info	buy track
3.	Pandora's Box 09:04	info	buy track
4.	Stupid Cows (a gig in 1979) 04:42	info	buy track
5.	Wise Old Man 06:31	info	buy track
6.	Just as if 04:55	info	buy track
7.	Killing Rock and Roll 04:21	info	buy track
8.	Barry Manilow? 04:28	info	buy track
9.	School for Fools 05:59	info	buy track
10.	The Space Between the Notes 08:12	info	buy track

about

The English affection for portrait miniatures has a long history: Nicholas Hilliard, John Hoskins and Samuel Cooper to name but a few. In the world of literature, critic Colin Manlove observed “The growing pleasure of English writers in creating fantastic miniature worlds which work on their own.”

It may be that those who live upon a small island take a delight in small things.

In 2022, having tired of a solitude born of Covid 19, Lester Square emerged blinking into the light and laid down a challenge to a number of eminent authors of his acquaintance to provide a short story intriguing enough to elicit full immersion in a pocket otherworld: as William Blake would describe it, seeing “a world in a grain of sand.”

The process couldn’t have been simpler, collaborators merely sent in a sound file of their reading recorded on a phone. The challenge then for Lester was to set them to music and sound collage which complemented and amplified the mood conjured up by the written word. Sometimes literally - the rhythmic headboard banging as the neighbours have sex next door to Andrew Gallix; sometimes through counterintuitive juxtaposition – the jolly counterpoint to a skinhead attack in Lucy O’Brien’s memoire.

The collision and interplay of genres has resulted in 13 evocative vignettes - some magical, some comical, some foreboding - that have become more than the sum of their miniature parts

…but which leave you wanting more.

credits

released May 30, 2023

Music: Lester Square, guitars and keyboards. All other instruments
Sam Pelling and Cynthia Sizemore,

All authors read their own short stories except for School for Fools read by Bid

Recorded at Liberal Elite Studio, Islington and Premises Studio, Hackney
Engineer, Neil Goody

Cubist Records 07

Published by Cherry Red Songs

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Lester Square London, UK

The original guitarist in Adam and the Ants before co-founding The Monochrome Set with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums.

"Guitarist Lester Square sprinkled sharp-edged fills into the sprawling melodic arches."
Die Welt

"Lester Square's guitar style influenced The Smiths, the Glasgow and Edinburgh Post Punk scenes, and then their successors, Franz Ferdinand."
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discography

Taps

May 2023
Invisible Man

Feb 2022
Miniatures 2020

Mar 2021
Ricochet

Jan 2021
Nuevo Laredo

Jan 2021
I Come and Stand at Every Door

Oct 2020
Cuts

Apr 2020
Chautauqua

Apr 2019
Serotonin

Jan 2018
Carcass

Jun 2017

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