Excellent 7” reissue of an obscure UK avant/DIY side from the duo of Anne Bean and Paul Burwell, originally self-released in 1979. Pulp Music may ring some bells as a name that turned up on the bill at The Final Academy, the William Burroughs celebration that featured Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, 23 Skidoo et al… and they were also involved with a group of English experimental musicians that included Bob Cobbing and David Toop before going on to found the Bow Gamelan Ensemble. But this single sounds quite unlike any of that, with Bean and Burwell’s vocal screams, grunts and rants backed up with a mountain of free percussion in a way that resembles something somewhere between The No-Neck Blues Band, The Pop Group and some ultra-stripped down No Wave pugilism

Amazing single from this brief-lived duo that united two of the key underground avant/garage conceptualists to come out of the French underground, Thierry Muller (Ilitch/Ruth et al) and Philippe Doray. A fantastic follow-up to the Ruth single that floored so many people last year. “Early 80, years after the release of Nouveaux modes industriels and 10 suicides while I was working on the first recordings of Polaroid/Roman/Photo, Philippe Doray and myself decided to work jointly on a project for concerts: Crash (both great readers of JG Ballard) was born. This project included new songs, tracks' adaptations of each and improvisations. We made some concerts in France and the Netherlands.” – Thierry Muller. Both tracks are taken from rehearsals recorded in 1984. Pile ou Face has been released within a different mix on a single sided 7” which was given away with the first issue of Inaudible magazine (this version can be found on CD format on the excellent Thierry Müller compilation Rare & unreleased 1974-1984). Vaughan's Ballad is previously unreleased.