Philip Brophy – Salt Saliva Sperm And Sweat [LP] (1989, Present Records)

 

Philip Brophy, born in Reservoir, Melbourne 1959 is an Australian musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, graphic designer, educator and academic. In 1977, Brophy formed the experimental group → ↑ → -more often written (though wrongly) as Tsk Tsk Tsk or Tch Tch Tch, (pronounced tsk tsk tsk)- with Ralph Traviato, Alan Gaunt and Leigh Parkhill. Sometimes compared to Andy Warhol's Factory, the group produced experimental music (Brophy on drums or synthesiser), films, videos, and live theatrical performances exploring Brophy's aesthetic and cultural interests, often on a minimal budget.

 

Over the ten years of the group's operation it involved over sixty of Brophy's friends and acquaintances including musician David Chesworth, and visual artists Maria Kozic and Jayne Stevenson. They performed in a wide range of Australian venues including pubs, galleries, university campuses and the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre. They also performed or exhibited in Europe, including London's ICA. Brophy dissolved the group in the late 1980s, issuing a retrospective book "Made by → ↑ →", but continued to work with Kozic for some time. 

 

In 1980, he founded the Innocent Records label with fellow Melbourne musician David Chesworth. Throughout the early 1980s, Brophy wrote numerous compositions and multi-media pieces. In the late 1990s, Brophy founded the Sound Punch label, and released both solo works, and collaborations with Maria Kozic, Bill McDonald, and fellow RMIT academic Philip Samartzis. 

 

After the dissolution of → ↑ →, with whom Brophy had made numerous collaborative film and video works (including Super-8 and 16mm versions of "No Dance"), he set his ambitions on making higher budget films, and became more involved in sound design. In 1988 he made an experimental short film "Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat". His first feature film, "Body Melt", was released in 1993, and was funded by the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria. Two short films were produced in 2004, "The Sound Of Milk" and "Words In My Mouth - Voices In My Head (Anna)". [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]

 

 

Label: Present Records – PRE-010, Present Records – MX303123 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Australia 

Released: 1989 

Style: Abstract, Experimental, Industrial

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Sensation 

A2 Sedation 

A3 Suggestion 

A4 Secretion 

A5 Suspension 

B1 Suspicion 

B2 Subjection 

B3 Seclusion 

B4 Submersion 

B5 Summation 

B6 Seduction 

 

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