Yellow Letter Day
Orchestre Rouge - Yellow Laughter [PL 37623 FRA 1982 24-Bit FLAC] I have posted the CD version of this album elsewhere before, when I longed for an original vinyl to hear how it was supposed to sound. Finally, I have tracked down a rare near mint original vinyl pressing and am sharing this with you today. Theo Hakola emigrated from his native Spokane, WA to Paris via New York, Central America and Spain. After brief sorties as a waiter, a club DJ and an English teacher, he founded Orchestre Rouge in 1980. The band recorded their debut album Yellow Laughter at Strawberry Studios in Stockport near Manchester with Martin Hannett and Chris Nagle. The album was only released in France and Spain by RCA, so therefore had little reach beyond those markets. These tracks are complex new wave and post-punk held together by a superbly crisp Hannett production which I think is up there with his best album work. Soon Come Violence was the only single, again released only for the Frenc...