MONOFONIC ORCHESTRA-FRIENDS' PORTRAITS, 12" EP, 1981, ITALY

Awesome mutated avant synth wave into quasi-R.I.O. of an exceedingly ZNR-like sort. What Monofonic Orchestra share with Hector Zazou and Joseph Racaille's ZNR (specifically their antically eccentric Barricade 3 album) is a propensity for wedding Satie-esque piano-led delicacy with with sudden surges of giddy, circus-y avant electropop. Just beautiful.

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