Le Grand Magic Circus Et Ses Animaux Tristes ‎– Le Grand Méchant Cochon Et Les Trois Gentils Petits Loups (1974, LP, France)

Created by Jérôme Savary in Paris in 1965, The Grand Magic Circus (and its sad animals) is an offbeat theatrical company which has benefited from the participation of authors such as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal or Roland Topor ... At the borders of the theater, from the circus and the music hall, Jérôme Savary and his troupe have designed surprising, delirious, poetic shows bordering on surrealism. Whether they seize on great classics like La Périchole (Jacques Offenbach), Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi), The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini) ... or contemporary creations like Cabaret (Joe Masteroff), La Légende de Jimmy ( Michel Berger & Luc Plamondon), Zazou (Jérôme Savary), Y a d'la Joie (Jacques Pessis & Charles Trénet), Marylin Montreuil (Jérôme Savary & Diane Tell), it is always with as much fervor, generosity, imagination, delirious fantasy and an invigorating sense of celebration.

Commuters (Dagmar Krause, Harold Schellinx, Ronald Heiloo) – Commuters (1982, CD, England)

Tracklist:
A1 The Ventriloquist 1:27
A2 The Young Lieutenant 0:46
A3 The Architect 1:50
A4 The Poet 1:43
A5 The Man On The Island 1:34
B1 The Acrobat 1:36
B2 The Organist 1:08
B3 The Philosopher 1:34
B4 The Gentleman On The Stairs 0:48
B5 The Priest 2:11

Musicians:
Music By – Harold Schellinx, Ronald Heiloo
Piano – Ronald Heiloo
Vocals – Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause, Harold Schellinx, Ronald Heiloo

Recorded 28th September to 5th October 1982 at Ark Studio, Kingston-upon-Thames. Cut November 1982 at Utopia, London.

The EP Commuters, a one-time collaboration between Slapp Happy vocalist Dagmar Krause and Amsterdam avant-garde composers Harold Schelinx and Ronald Heiloo, was first released as a limited pressing on Amphibious Records in 1983. Soon deleted, it quickly became the Holy Grail fans of Krause were all after. The album was reissued in 2000 on La Cooka Ratcha (a Voiceprint imprint). Although it runs for only 16 minutes, Commuters contains ten songs and really should be perceived as a full album. Schelinx's short stories are set to dense piano pieces taking elements from Erik Satie, Charles Ives, and Kurt Weill. Krause's voice delivers the text in angular melodies in a way similar to her work with News From Babel (on Work Resumed on the Tower). These 60- to 120-second half-cabaret/half-atonal pieces are as complete as can be and the listener comes out of them as if the experience had taken an hour. The simplicity of the piano/voice setting is constantly challenged by the obscurity of the lyrics, the complexity of the melodies, and the sparse but very concentrated piano parts.