Gondwanaland (Steroid Maximus album) explained

Gondwanaland
Type:	Album
Artist:	Steroid Maximus
Cover:	Steroid Max Gondwanaland.jpg
Released:	December 1992
Recorded:	Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn (Summer 1989–Summer 1990)
Genre:	Jazz, avant garde
Length:	54:52
Label:	Big Cat
Producer:	J. G. Thirlwell
Chronology:	J. G. Thirlwell
Prev Title:	Male
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Vice Squad Dick
Next Year:	1994

Gondwanaland is an album from Steroid Maximus. It was released in 1992 by Big Cat Records.

Gondwanaland is Ectopic Entertainment #ECT ENTS 003.

The album is the second Steroid Maximus album of instrumental soundtrack music to an imaginary film.^[1] Ira Robbins of Trouser Press called the music "stunning in its mischievous diversion of traditional concepts", describing the music as "Wagnerian orchestration, exotic ethnic elements, blaring big-band swing, continental drift and found-sound constructions".^[2]

Reviews:

• Web site: Satan Stole My Teddy Bear. https://web.archive.org/web/20080409165743/http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/artist/steroid.html. 2008-04-09. John Chedsey. 30 January 2000. Alt URL
• College Music Journal text at foetus.org
• Sputnik Music review

Track listing

1. "¡Quilombo!" (J. G. Thirlwell / Raymond Watts) – 4:22
2. "Radio Raheem" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:25
3. "First Movement: The Trojan Hearse" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 2:38
4. "Second Movement: The Auctioneer of Souls" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 4:36
5. "Third Movement: Crawling Goliath" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:42
6. "Fourth Movement: Erupture" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:13
7. "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" (Thirlwell / Lucy Hamilton) – 5:52
8. "I Will Love You Always (Wild Irish Rose)" (Thirlwell / Don Flemming) – 6:14
9. "Cross Double Cross" (Thirlwell / Mark Cunningham) – 4:08
10. "Destino Matar" (Thirlwell / Away) – 3:32
11. "Volgarity" (Thirlwell) – 2:36
12. "Öl (Kwik-Lube)" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 1:56
13. "Powerhouse!" (Raymond Scott) – 4:06
14. "Homeo" (Thirlwell / Away) – 2:34

• Tracks 3–6 are collectively titled "The Bowel of Beelzebub: A Symphony in Four Movements."
• "¡Quilombo!" and "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" are taken from ¡Quilombo!.
• "Powerhouse!" originally released in 1990 by Thirlwell's Garage Monsters project.

Personnel and production

• J. G. Thirlwell – Performance, production, arrangements, engineering, mixing
• Raymond Watts – Featured (1–6)
• Lucy Hamilton – Featured (7)
• Don Flemming – Featured (8)
• Mark Cunningham – Featured (9)
• Away – Featured (10, 14)
• Roli Mosimann – Featured (12)
• The Pizz and Buttstain – Featured (13)
• Lin Culbertson – Flute (1)
• Hahn Rowe – Violin (9)

External links

• Discogs
• Gondwanaland at foetus.org

Notes and References

1. Bogdanov, Vladimir (2001) All Music Guide to Electronica, Backbeat,, p. 187
2. Robbins, Ira "Foetus", Trouser Press, retrieved 2011-07-25