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Doomed Shop! (Part One)

by THF Drenching

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    THE FIRST INSTALLMENT of Drenching's preposterous Proletarian Collage-Oratorio is a setting of the first part of Marx's "The Class Struggles In France, 1848-1850".

    Sort of like a really cheap kind of Marxist high school play composed by Elliott Carter and orchestrated by Queen and Roscoe Mitchell, "Doomed Shop!" plunges into a world where newly-nationalised banks accumulate private profit, the rule of the finance aristocracy is maintained at the direct cost of the poor, and liberal politicians denounce rioters and looters whilst propping up a pro-cuts government which is "nothing other than a joint stock company for the exploitation of France's national wealth".

    DISCOVER the essential points of Lamartine's dispute with the barricade fighters, UNCOVER the true class nature of the Finance Aristocracy, APPREHEND the main object of the ruling faction’s speculation, and the chief source of its enrichment, and WINCE under the previously-unknown pressure of the unreified amateur aria.

    Drenching's virtual chamber ensemble of recorders, Casios, Monotrons, violins, Sony TCM-400-DVs, ukuleles, electric guitars and massed tin whistles striate and plainchant through the score with ramshackle precision, whilst his wobbly tenor and trusty overdub-choir lays out the text.

    Your own inchoate bathtime ditties have been TAKEN SERIOUSLY, lifted and orchestrated for electric noh theatre. A "soundtrack to the struggle" for sure, but, y'know, the OPPOSITE of jiggy.

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" From now on the bankers will rule." 04:55
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"It was not the French bourgeoisie..." 03:48
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"The industrial bourgeoisie proper..." 04:04
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"Owing to its financial straits..." 04:37
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"But the state deficit..." 03:52
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"The July Monarchy was nothing other than..." 04:27
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"Crapuleux, money, filth, blood!" 05:12
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"Potato blight 1845..." 06:20
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"It is well known how..." 06:05
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"A republic by force of arms!" 03:09
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"All classes of French society..." 03:53
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"Decree on the Right to Work..." 04:15
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"Only under bourgeois rule..." 04:08
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"With the introduction of the republic..." 07:52
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"Public credit shaken..." 02:12
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released November 1, 2011

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THF Drenching is an improvisor, & a composer. Here are all his albums since 1998.

He is half of the duo Sippy Cup.

"The morality of idiots and their believe in genius gives me the shits"

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