''The Michel Publicity Window E.P.'' is a CD by

Thighpaulsandra Timothy Lewis – best known by the stage name Thighpaulsandra – is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. He began his career working with Julian Cope in the late ...

. The title track is a radio-friendly edit of the 27-minute epic from '' I, Thighpaulsandra'', excising the ambient suites that bookend the rock midsection. The rest of the EP features forays into

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

and

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...

, and remains Thighpaulsandra's most commercial-sounding record to date. A limited edition of 500 copies were pressed on transparent amber vinyl.

Track listing

7" pressing

Personnel

*Thighpaulsandra: Vocals,

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a Capstan (tape recorder), capstan, which pulls i ...

, synthesizers * Martin Schellard: Guitars and bass *

Malcolm Cross Malcolm Cross was a Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p136 Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for Merchistonians. Provincial career Cross was capped by Glasgow District to play against Edinburgh District in the int ...

: Drums on "Michel Publicity Window" * Michael Mooney: Gibson

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of pla ...

on "Michel Publicity Window" *

Siôn Orgon Sion is a name used in Wales and in other nations. Welsh name Siôn () or Sion is a Welsh form of the Anglo-Norman ''Jean'', pronounced in English similarly to the Irish name Seán. Notable people with the Welsh name include: People with the sur ...

: Vocals on "Paralysed"; drum kit and percussion on "Fouled" * Butros Müller-Staal: electronic percussion on "Hovercar Von Düsseldorf" *

John Balance Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder ...

: Vocals and text on "Fouled"

References

CD entry at discogs.com7" vinyl entry at discogs.com
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