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A legendary underground album of uncompromising, experimental proto-punk that was far ahead of its time, created by a trio in rural central southern USA, surrounded by agriculture and livestock farming? As unbelievable as it sounds, there is hardly a band in American music history where the clash between artistic vision and geographical reality was so extreme. Charles „Chuck Poison“ Ivey and Oliver „Rectomo“ Powers, both multi-instrumentalists with experience in local bands, formed the band Debris' with drummer Johnny Gregg in the summer of 1975 in Chickasaw, a provincial town in the state of Oklahoma. After a few provocative live concerts, they obtained a promo package from Benson Sound Studios in Oklahoma City worth $1,590, which included ten hours of studio recording time and the pressing of 1,000 LPs. The recordings took place in December 1975 and January 1976 in two sessions with the support of a saxophonist, a percussionist and a backing singer.
Their only self-titled album was released in April 1976 on their own label and presented a completely new and radical fusion of aggressive garage punk with avantgarde experiments. The mixture of raw hard rock and psychedelic guitars, wild loops from analogue synthesizers and modulators, and free jazz textures from the saxophone form the backdrop for vocal experiments with disturbing lyrics. Faced with a lack of support and devastating reviews, they gave up after less than six months. It is the seminal album of the 1970s to emerge from the American private press scene and inspired numerous artists worldwide. The rare US originals now fetch high collector's prices.
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