Ile-_c-o_1'do ENIGMA. PERE UBU ln 1975, Pere Ubu was organized as a one-off recording project. lts horizons soon broadened- Four self-produced singles, released betweeo 1975 and 1977, led to major iabel releases in 1978- The first album, enlitled The Modern Danôe, and lhe later Dub Housing were bolh considered important albums and lound their way to several crilics' "don't miss' lists. Over the cburse of the next four years; Ubu:co'ntinued to experiment with lhe lorm of rock music, pursuing the way of the avant-garage;recording three more studio LPs: 1980's controversial The Art Of Walking;'Nèw Picnic Time and:The Song Ol The Bailing Man- By 1982, Pere Ubu had exhausted ltself. "We were all so tangled up Ity quii!É. create together had gotten mired," said Allen Ravensli rnt intervii we reached a point like that we'd try difierent cu music somewhere new. By the end, we'd exhausted There were no melodramatic scenes or mply stopped working. Weeks turned into months (and then years) while members group busied themselves in other fields. Allen worked with Mayo Thompson's Red Crayola before dropping out of music altogether lor a time. Scott Krauss ony Maimone founded Home & Garden. David Thomas fronled a succession and poetry troupes; first The Pedestrians, then The Wooden Birds. : ln 1986, however, the way was clear lor a revitalization of Reconcilialions had _U9tl,Proie.x. been accomplished and evênts began to suggest thsinevitability of it. Thomas, Ravenstine and Maimone were working together as The Wooden Birds and planning a rock pro.iect with guitarist Jim Jones (an Ubu associate lrom the days of the Cleveland underground) aid drum- mer Chris Cutler, Ubu friend and tormer member of '70s avant-rock pioneeÉ Henry Cow. Ubu art designer John Thompson had also re-surfaced and was involved. ln September of that year, Scîtt Krauss sat in with The Wooden Birdé for ân impromptu set ol Ubu songs at a concert in Cleveland. Between encores he agreed to join up- ''fhe more we talked about the next project and sat there looking al each other," recalled David Thomas, "the more it became obvious thal what we were lalking about was Pere Ubu-" A year later the group gathered in Cleveland'to begin work on ltre Tenement year, their first sludio album in six years- This is Pere Ubu's first release tor Enigma in America. FÀ,rrCM4 RECORDs it.i0 t^t Ilotty Au"4,..t t:'g'ddo.(otl.mûaûa5. a.'s rpi 2lllb40 6Sôq rr, ?l l/b40.À141 Ir^_rGMA c^NAD^ 2163 Dunui-n Driæ. Missiseusur, Ontatio LsL 353 tcl 414,/828'a,l2l fa\ 416/aZA!'124 ENIcÀ{^EUIaOPED.Àuyl.rltn.41-43.1012A,4AÆtcdâ.TltN.th.rbùdsrlxI2i39IAOUD^{,vLlfâr020/247-cOr tà ,__,-t- - - < =>- -o i- - - - Ë i!? - ,L P \*- tE 1fË.