Mecano rare Dutch DARK WAVE LP Autoportrait on TORSO EX minimal synth post punk

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Band/Record: Mecano - Autoportrait

Label/Matrix: NL 1982 TORSO 337

Condition Record/Sleeve: EX/VG++ (record a few very light hairlines only, top audio. Cover clean and unwritten, with corners only tiny "eaten", light wear on edges, light aging wear)

Extra Info: Fantastic Album .... Dark Wave \ Minimal Synth MONSTER !! Original Dutch 1st press on TORSO + inner ..Wow ...VERY RARE album.... 

~~ Emerging from the punk-era, Mecano is best described as new wave, leaving raw punk behind, adding poetry and remarkable arrangements, colored with unusual guitar harmonies, combining Allen Ravenstine-like squeeks with time experiments, sonicly floating as one, with brashness and provocation, converting into an ashtonishing electric blend.
Dirks' lyrics, influenced by such artists as Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and above all Russian poet Maiakovski, are overall cryptic and along the way Dirk added his own grammar like “lack of joie de vivre” or “globeold”.

Early 1980 newly founded Torso Records had released the mini-lp Untitled and in that same year Subtitled, both nowadays reaching high prices amongst collectors. The next year Torso released two singles, Escape the Human Myth b/w History Landmark and Robespierre's Remarks b/w Room for Two, heading for hunters to collect. After that the band split up, to be reunited in 1982 without Ton Lebbink and Pieter Kooyman and a smaller size Mecano started recording Autoportrait, which came out early ‘83 and on which Pieter Kooyman is present on Suggestive Sleep and To Life's Reunion .

Tracklisting:
A1   Profile A2   The Suggestive Sleep A3   Entr'acte B1   ???????????e B2   Autumnmatic Play B3   The Mutant Jasz B4   To Life's Re-Union

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