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Family Fodder released two extremely obscure but oddly delightful albums in the early '80s, Monkey Banana Kitchen and All Styles. With the blessing of the loose-knit London-based group's leader (and sole constant member), Alig Pearce, the New York indie Dark Beloved Cloud gathered the best of those two discs, plus some singles and previously unreleased tracks, onto the 16-track Savoir Faire: The Best of Family Fodder. Kicking off with the title track, a brilliant organ-based pop song with bilingual verses sung by Dominique Levillain, the album proceeds to try to encapsulate this collective's curiously wide-ranging pursuits (that album wasn't called All Styles for nothing), but ends up sticking mostly to the group's quirky pop songs rather than its dub or musique concrète experiments. Of course, it takes a certain artistic fearlessness to cover Blondie (a weird and ultimately unsuccessful deconstruction of "Sunday Girl" with coy electronically processed vocals and a middle eight sung by a child), Franz Schubert, and Erik Satie (done inna reggae stylee, yet) on the same album.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Levillain, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - D Levillain, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Shubert arr. Fiedorowicz, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Copyright Control (PRS-ASCAP), MusicPublisher - arr. Felix Fiedorowicz, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Carter, Composer - Hill, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Ian Hill, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - Judy Carter, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
SMITH, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - Fodder, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Stein, Composer - Chris Stein, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - Family Fodder, MainArtist - EMI Music, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
SMITH, Composer - Hill, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - Fodder, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - Hill Ian, Composer - Raymond Leslie Smith, Composer - Henry Fodder, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Alig Fodder, MainArtist - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Levillain, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - D Levillain, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
SMITH, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - Fodder, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Levillain, Composer - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - D Levillain, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Wilson, Composer - Carter, Composer - Hill, Composer - Hobbs, Composer - Rick Wilson, Composer - Alig Fodder, MainArtist - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Ian Hill, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher - Mick Hobbs, Composer - Judy Carter, Composer
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Alig Fodder, MainArtist - JR Pearce, Composer - Family Fodder, MainArtist - Pearce, Composer - Jungle Music/Conexion Media, MusicPublisher
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
Album review
Family Fodder released two extremely obscure but oddly delightful albums in the early '80s, Monkey Banana Kitchen and All Styles. With the blessing of the loose-knit London-based group's leader (and sole constant member), Alig Pearce, the New York indie Dark Beloved Cloud gathered the best of those two discs, plus some singles and previously unreleased tracks, onto the 16-track Savoir Faire: The Best of Family Fodder. Kicking off with the title track, a brilliant organ-based pop song with bilingual verses sung by Dominique Levillain, the album proceeds to try to encapsulate this collective's curiously wide-ranging pursuits (that album wasn't called All Styles for nothing), but ends up sticking mostly to the group's quirky pop songs rather than its dub or musique concrète experiments. Of course, it takes a certain artistic fearlessness to cover Blondie (a weird and ultimately unsuccessful deconstruction of "Sunday Girl" with coy electronically processed vocals and a middle eight sung by a child), Franz Schubert, and Erik Satie (done inna reggae stylee, yet) on the same album.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:45
- Main artists: Family Fodder Alig Fodder Dominique Levillain
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Jungle Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
(C) 1998 Dark Beloved Cloud (P) 1998 Jungle Records
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