''Junior Relaxer'' is the third album by
Canadian
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alternative rock band
, released in 1997. The album's main single "Rational", a tribute to Nigerian activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerians, Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland ...
, was the band's biggest hit.
Prior to the album's release, the band had played several live shows of
improvisation
Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means un-foreseen. Improvis ...
al music using Junior Relaxer as a pseudonym.
[Nick Krewen, "Off in a different direction: King Cobb Steelie explores new musical possibilities on their new CD Junior Relaxer". '']Waterloo Region Record
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'', April 9, 1997.
Guest musicians on the album include
Kinnie Starr
Alida Kinnie Starr (born 1970) is a Canadian multidisciplinary singer and rapper.
Early life
Starr was born and raised in Calgary, where she attended Western Canada High School. Her ancestry is French, German, Irish. She is trilingual ( Englis ...
,
Nic Gotham
Nicholas Ivor Gotham, known as Nic Gotham, (27 September 1959 – 25 July 2013) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer. His 1992 chamber opera, '' Nigredo Hotel'', won two Dora Awards and was nominated for the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play ...
, DJ Serious and
Don Pyle
Don Pyle is a Canadian record producer and musician, who has also been a member of multiple bands. Pyle is openly gay.
Life and career
Pyle's first group was a punk band called Crash Kills Five, which was active from 1979 to 1981. Crash Kills F ...
.
Track listing
# Starvo
# Pass the Golden Falcon
# Rational
# Functions and Relations
# Power of Love
# Champion of Versatility
# You Should Be Getting Something
# Highly Conductive
# Doomed Thinking Man vs. Stupid Action Man
# Swiss Crumb
# Quo Vadis
# Irrational (Incarnate Perspective)
References
1997 albums
King Cobb Steelie albums
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