Rub
Wrongways is a record label.
No, it’s not.
For several months at a time, laconic lanky lad Henning Ohlenbusch will keep poking that red button on the screen, clogging his hard drive with wistful words and melodic music, until the electronic beast has had enough, whereupon it rears its head back and belches out another Rub Wrongways product in the form of a School For The Dead release, Ohlenbusch solo collection, or Fawns disc, the latter courtesy of the lovely, lilting, lyrical Lesa Bezo’s notebook of tuneful tunes.
On the other hand, it might be the muse of Ari Vais arm-wrestling its A.D.D.-addled owner into whipping off another EP of hooky punky pop nuggets via his Pelicans project. Speaking of A.D.D., ….As I said, speaking of dots of ellipsis… which suggest hesitation… and/or omission… someday Anthony Westcott will perhaps maybe probably complete a musical project of his own since cobbling together his Imaginary Discography in 2001. Lapping him in the meantime is fellow School For The Dead and Humbert bandmate Brian Marchese, who has bashed out two solid solo discs of trippy traps-happy pimpin’ pop in the last four years.
In other news, Rub Wrongways Records keeps the venerable Humbert catalogue in stock, boasts the third and final Aloha Steamtrain album among its wares and has even opened its arms to accommodate the masterfully sculpted oeuvre of the Bourgeois Heroes.
This compilation assembles one highlight per proper release from the first five years of the existence of the Rub Wrongways Records recording label (no, it’s not). Reduced to the simplest idea, Rub Wrongways serves as a collective clearing-house for musical projects indulged in by the former members of the band Humbert in its final incarnation (Ari Vais, Anthony Westcott, Henning Ohlenbusch and Brian Marchese). And yet it’s so much, much more.
No, it’s not.
Track
Listing:
1.
Snow Day The Fawns A Nice Place To Be
(2006)
2. Photobooth Curtain School For The Dead The
New You (2004)
3. Green And Fur Sitting Next To Brian Polite
(2007)
4. Summertime Is Calling You Bourgeois Heroes Come
Out And Play With The Bourgeois Heroes (2007)
5. Summer Jingle The Pelicans Dangerous
Love (2004)
6. Mouth To Mouth Humbert The Great White
Lunchroom (1997)
7. Something European Anthony Westcott Imaginary
Discography (2001)
8. Carnival Henning Ohlenbusch Looks Like
I’m Tall (2006)
9. Please Please The Aloha Steamtrain The
Aloha Steamtrain (2004)
10. Like A Flood The Pelicans London Crawling
(2003)
11. I Wouldn't Know Humbert The Great White
Lunchroom (1997)
12. First Step Down The Fawns Smiling
(2003)
13. One Lady Dancing School For The Dead The
Chain CD (2002)
14. Heroic Audio Display (Ain’t Love Strange?)
Ari Vais Winter Wonderland (2002)
15. Familiar Old Sugar Sitting Next To Brian A
Cartoon, A Joke (2003)
16. Mallcop! Humbert Are You Still Dancin’,
Darlin’? (1994)