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BLURT: Eccentric Post-Punk Phenomenon!
Somehow longevity suits Blurt.
When they first appeared on Factory Records all those years ago they looked and sounded beyond time. Their free jazz punk skronk was energising and visionary and they made a great fuss and become an underground staple especially in Europe. ... Still fronted by the charismatic Ted Milton the band are on fire and suddenly in the right place at the right time. The deserved fuss about the likes of the brilliant Colin Stetson and Shabaka Hutchins taking the sax into new places lets not forget Blurt were there first and are still there now....time for this genius band to get some love...
BLURT (UK)
Experimental post-punk combo founded in 1979 in Stroud, Gloucestershire (UK) by poet, saxophonist and puppeteer Ted Milton, aged 82 now. Milton grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He started his artistic career with poetry publications. In the mid-1960s, he began performing as a puppeteer, participating in numerous international festivals and TV performances.
punk, jazzpunk, no wave, post-punk, London
Always breaking all the rules, Ted Milton’s Blurt have been existing on their own trajectory for decades. The band’s free form poetry and jazz blurts over post punk funk grooves was no wave before no wave existed, and jazz revival before any of that generation was born. It was free spirited, thrilling, and you could dance to, and somehow decades into their journey, they have come up with what is arguably their greatest single yet. There is a film about Ted Milton getting made right now, and this single is also a hint of the indescribable brilliance of the underground legend.
The Meccano Giraffe grooves along with a perfect groove, some of kilter guitar, shrapnel, and that sax appeal, and Ted’s unique poetry.
It’s catchy as fuck and needs to be heard by more people...please share! – By johnrobb
The Mecanno GiraffeFollowing their rattling 45; Cry / I’ll Be There Now and the wiry full-length My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People, Blurt returns to All City with Mecanno Giraffe -a new 12′′ capturing Ted Milton’s band of beat-punk absurdists in full, surreal stride.
The A-side delivers the title track: Mecanno Giraffe, a spiky, off-kilter groove threaded with Milton’s un-mistakable bark, rhythmic sax blurts, and angular momentum that feels both mechanical and oddly ani-mal. It’s Blurt as always: driving, dry-witted, and defiantly out of sync with any prevailing trends.
On the flip, Milton shifts gear with a number of spoken word pieces. Stripped bare, intimate, incantatory. More Artaud than Allen, these pieces reveal another facet of Blurt’s singular frontman, echoing threads found in recent interviews tracing his ongoing collision of poetry, punk, and performance.
Third strike on the label and still no sign of softening. Mecanno Giraffe proves that Blurt still remains gloriously out of step, part animal, part machine!.
File under: Post-punk / Art rock / Spoken word
RIYL: The Pop Group, James Chance, Pere Ubu
