Dark Day – Window
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Dark Entries – DE-006 |
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Vinyl
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US |
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Electronic |
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Minimal |
Tracklist
A1 | Window | 6:26 | |
A2 | Don't Bother | 2:42 | |
A3 | The Metal Benders | 2:48 | |
A4 | Mr. Potatohead | 3:04 | |
B1 | Nudes In The Forest | 2:55 | |
B2 | Sleep | 4:10 | |
B3 | Danger/Dancer | 3:38 | |
B4 | Eternal Return | 2:57 | |
B5 | Second Warning | 2:24 |
Credits
- Design [Cover] – Marc Nasdor
- Engineer – John Rhodes
- Keyboards, Percussion [Electronic], Composed By – Bill Sack
- Layout – Eloise Leigh
- Remastered By – George Horn
- Vocals [Additional] – Bunny Lake (2)
- Vocals, Keyboards, Bells, Toy Piano, Percussion [Electronic], Producer, Design Concept [Cover], Composed By – Robin Lee Crutchfield
Notes
This first edition re-issue also includes a 24-page newsprint zine "Darker Days As I Recall Them" by Robin Crutchfield with silk screened cardstock jackets and is hand-numbered to 500 copies.
Other Versions (5 of 8)
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Window (LP, Album) | Plexus | KMH709230, KMH709330 | US | 1982 | ||
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Window (LP, White Label, Promo) | Plexus | KMH 709230 | US | 1982 | ||
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Window (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Repress) | Dark Entries | DE-006 | US | 2010 | ||
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Window (LP, Test Pressing) | Dark Entries | DE-006 | US | 2010 | ||
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Window (LP, Album, Remastered, Repress) | Dark Entries | DE-006 | US | 2012 |
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Following the first few incarnations and various lineups of r.l. crutchfield’s Dark Day, 1981 saw the direction of the project morphed into an electronic keyboard duo of Robin Crutchfield and Bill Sack with an album of nine songs released on Plexus Records. Lyrics were inspired by various sources including occult texts by Colin Wilson and art by Leger, Bruegel, Malevich, Man Ray, Duchamp and Jean Cocteau. The mechanized sound of “Window” is less one of the man machine robots in charge of Kraftwerk than man at the mercy of his machines. The infectiously-engaging toy-like instruments captured the ears of fans worldwide with popcorn drum rhythms. A Synare borrowed from Jeff and Jane Hudson lent a “Bette Davis Eyes” homage and crack to the percussion on the percolating tracks. The instant polaroid images, an homage to Japanese recording artist Susan of “The Girl Can’t Help It,” adorned the album sleeve in two stark headshots of musicians at work, haunted by the unseen. The front cover, a Crutchfield-designed collage in two tones of salmon flesh and Mediterranean watery blue show a string of rickety children in diaper togs, forced much like the children of “Cat In The Hat” to spend a dreary day indoors. The look on the children’s faces asks you to determine whether they are needing to be rescued from their enclosure, or inviting you to and play. Is the window something you look out, or in? You must answer that question.
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