Sweet and S'Ours

by MAGGIE NICOLS | JULIE TIPPETTS

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Owen Keenan I have this on LP. Had to get a friend in Switzerland to travel to a different city and buy it for me, then fly to Australia to hand deliver it, nursing it on the plane like a small child to ensure it arrived in one piece.

If Monty Python were talented free jazz musicians who decided to make an avant garde sketch "pretending" to be talented free jazz musicians (the joke being it's amazing free jazz despite at times sounding like a parody) it might have sounded something like this.

Essential. Favorite track: Ooh - Me Poor Feet.

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As idiosyncratic an album as any in the full FMP/SAJ canon, this unfairly unheralded LP delivers surprise, whimsy, and musicality in equal measure. Join the unique sound-world of these two woman and your life will be the better for it.

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	1.	Rabbiting 03:29
	2.	Ooh - Me Poor Feet 05:58
	3.	Wind Forest 06:17
	4.	Moon Fire 06:01
	5.	Riverside 01:20
	6.	What's This 09:56
	7.	Whaling 09:09

about

All compositions by Maggie Nicols and Julie Tippetts.

credits

released October 26, 1982

REVIEWS

"The duo’s range and moods throughout is somewhere between the very earthy work of Jeanne Lee and the more pyrotechnical expression of Jay Clayton. Nichols and Tippetts work through chants, drones and natural intertwining of souls that belies their friendship, often accompanying themselves with various percussion instruments and junk. Intimate and pleasing." -- Milo Fine, Cadence

"Where 'Sweet And S’Ours' scores is in its diversity of emotion; from the hysterical opener 'Rabbiting' (just that) to more serious pieces ('Wind Forest' and 'Whaling') which make extensive use of multitracking and sundry instrumentation, not all of it conventional." -- City Limits (UK)

Maggie Nicols: voice, recorder, bongos, lammer, pipe, blowing into vacuum cleaner tubes
Julie Tippetts: voice, recorder, bottles, cymbal bells, bongos, concertina, blowing into vacuum cleaner tubes

Recorded by Keith Beal in June 1978 at the Riverside Studios in London.

Album produced by Jost Gebers.

Cover design by Julie Tippetts.
Photographs by Anita Corbin.