Penny's L'Academie Des Vanités Rimbaud: Yes Sir,The Truth Of Revolution (CD)

Penny's L'Academie Des Vanités Rimbaud

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Label:: Cold Spring
Artikelnummer:: 3367653
UPC/EAN:: 0641871744749
Erscheinungstermin:: 28.11.2025

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Crass was then – This is now. Wake up to it
Crass' album, »Yes, Sir, I Will«, was possibly the most angry and hard hitting attack on the political / military / industrial complex ever consigned to vinyl. Written by Penny Rimbaud in 1982 at the height of the Falklands conflict, it seethes with righteous indignation over what he saw as a pointless but vicious exercise in vote catching by a government whose popularity was severely on the wane. So powerful was this critique that it led to threats of prosecution by that very same government, threats which were typically used by Crass to further their attacks on it and its tyrannical leader, Margaret Thatcher.

Over thirty years later, in 2014, Rimbaud was asked to participate in the Rebellion Festival, a yearly punk gathering held in Blackpool, UK. Realising that the opening date of the festival closely coincided with that of the euphemistically named »Great War«, Rimbaud and the festival organisers agreed that as an appropriate response they should open the event with a performance of »Yes, Sir, I Will«. For the Rebellion performance of the now retitled »Yes, Sir, the Truth of Revolution«, Rimbaud was joined by Crass' lead vocalist Eve Libertine plus a group of leading musicians from the London jazz scene with whom they'd worked extensively in the past.

Named »L'Académie des Vanités«, the band consisted of Eve Libertine / vocals, Penny Rimbaud / vocals, Louise Elliott / sax, Kate Shortt / cello, Jennifer Maidman / guitar, Phil Robson / guitar, Thad Kelly / bass and Gene Calderazzo / drums. The live recording of that show, presented here, captures all the tense excitement created by presenting a primarily punk audience with complex poetics of love, accompanied by equally demanding freeform, improvised jazz. However, as had generally been the case with Crass' output, wild, willing and worrisome, it would be wise to expect the unexpected.

Equally, through its progressive and colourful imagery, the vibrant packaging designed by Gee Vaucher shows a refusal to harp back to the illusory golden past of punk dreams and conceits. »We are poets, armed with the cobblestones of love, unconditional, uncompromising, beyond need of proof.« However, if proof is needed, it will most surely be found in the content of this radical, imaginative release.