![]() ![]() ![]() It's a record that never stoops to sentimentalize. The secret is the unflinching and uncompromising eye that Sullivan has for the ugliness and absurdities of the expat life - married to a powerful and percussive sound built on beats and loops. That Happy Clinic transforms this familiar territory into terrain that is strange and dangerous is the magic of Memory Mound. The duo's first record, Memory Mound, is a Baedeker to the dark underbelly of the expatriate life: the sex, the drugs, the alcohol, the hipsterish intellectual wisecracking and the deep loneliness. ![]() Perhaps that's why I'm so taken with his collaboration with veteran Berlin drummer and Tiger Lillies soundman, Claus Buehler in the ensemble Happy Clinic. "Writer musician and philosopher (Marx for a Post-Communist Era: On Poverty, Corruption and Banality) Stefan Sullivan has taken a few rooms in this palace over the years - from London to Paris to Moscow to Bangkok and on to Washington, D.C. Gregg Robins (Saxophone on Chickity Black) Scott Albert Johnson (harmonica on Belly) Keys & Guit + Sound-Engineering)Ĭecilia Arellano (Female Vocals on 64 Squares) ![]()
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