PHILIP SANDERSON - SHARK FIN SOUP

• Philip Sanderson: Shark Fin Soup
      (2025, cd, Austria, klanggalerie gg533)

"From a secret mountain top location a number of tracks by the Residents were broadcast into the far reaches of outer space with the hope that they might be received and understood by an Interplanetary Intelligence (IPI). As the tracks traveled across space and time the signals collided and combined with other musical broadcasts: opera, swing, fuzz rock, barbershop, etc till by the time the broadcast was received it was a veritable Shark Fin Soup – a mutant musical cornucopia played in ways even the Residents might not expect. The whole thing was reflected back to earth and captured one night on short wave by Philip Sanderson (Snatch Tapes/Storm Bugs). The tracks were then dis-arranged and with the help of the The Snatch Tapes Swingers, The Brontochorus and not least Chef D’Orchestre Arthur Ingot put down on disc for your listening pleasure."

I had to read it twice, but these liner notes do tell us what to expect: songs by The Residents, but reworked in quite surprising musical styles.
Great fun and an impressive example of musical craftmanship by Philip Anderson !

Packed in a beautiful fold-out cardboard sleeve. Another fine Residents related release on the Klanggalerie record label.