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• Limited edition Vinyl LP

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  Format: 140 gram vinyl LP
  Cat: PLA031 / MNQ112
  
  The second album to be reissued by Mannequin and Platform 23 Records of the music from Bourbonese Qualk, Hope saw the politically active musical entity expand on their mix of music, art and politics.
  
  Staunchly independent, doing the recording and design via their Recloose Organisation label, by 1984 the group had occupied a large disused building on the Old Kent Road, becoming the base for the band's activities as well as other creative and political activism.
  
  Recorded at the Ambulance Station, Hope is full of unceasing drum machine rhythms, electro pulses, echoing samples and lo-fi synths matched with strummed guitars and dub bass. The accompanying drones and snarled vocals go beyond any early 80's industrial tag to be something more unique, with the uncompromising, conceptual and avant flashes showing a more experimental buzz, an awkward quasi-funk noisy nuisance.
  
  This is music as much for then and today, a radical, revolutionary cultural force that acts as a positive social charge. Written and recorded by the group during 1983-1984 at their newly occupied headquarters, the notorious "Ambulance Station".
  
  Bourbonese Qualk line up: Drums – Steven Tanza / Guitar – Simon Crab / Voice – Julian Gilbert
  
  Remastered by Rude 66.
  
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• 'Hope' CD. Limited edition compact disc with three bonus tracks

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  CD Re-issue of the revolutionary LP 'Hope' album by Bourbonese Qualk written and recorded by the group during 1983-1984 at their newly occupied headquarters, the notorious "Ambulance Station".
  
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