{"title":"Savage Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSavage Republic is an independent band from Los Angeles that was formed in the early 1980s and is still active today. The band was originally named [a916144] but changed its name shortly before releasing their debut album in 1982. Founded by UCLA students Mark Erskine and Bruce Licher, along with Philip Drucker (a.k.a. Jackson Del Rey), Jeff Long, and Robert Loveless, Savage Republic has experienced several lineup changes over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite creative tensions leading to a split in 1989-1990, the band reformed in 2002 for a reunion tour and has remained active ever since with a different lineup than the original one. Some of their current members include Mark Erskine on drums, percussion, bongos, and vocals; Jackson Del Rey on vocals, guitar \u0026amp; percussion; Thom Fuhrmann on bass, trombone, keyboards, and vocals; Greg Grunke on guitar, bass, dulcimer, and vocals; Bruce Licher on guitar, bass percussion,and vocals; Jeff Long on vocals,bass \u0026amp; guitar; Robert Loveless on keyboards,bass mandolin,and percussion; Ethan Port on guitars ,percussion ,metal horn,and voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSavage Republic's sound can be described as unique blend of post-punk rock infused with experimental elements. Fans of artists such as Colin Newman,Ike Yard,Cabaret Voltaire will appreciate their music style . With decades of\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"live-in-wroclaw-january-7-2023","title":"Live in Wrocław January 7 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailing from the Los Angeles underground of the 1980s, Savage Republic forged an astonishing reputation for themselves as art-punk and industrial pioneers with their legendary performances. Their brand of ritualistically tribal exhibitions blurred the boundaries of Post-Punk and Industrial music. Their music incorporates minimialist bass rumbles, exotic and\/or militaristic drumming, Arabic melodies, alternate tunings, primal chants and even a bit of surf guitar. Savage Republic released four full length albums in the 1980s, plus several live records and compilation tracks. 1989 everything went quiet as the republic scattered to pursue other interests and their labels and distributors folded. After reuniting in 2002 for a brief U.S. tour supporting the boxed-set reissue of their five studio albums by Mobilization Records, several of the members began sharing ideas for new songs, reviving the band officially in 2005. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2006\/2007 Savage Republic added drum professor Alan Waddington (the Unforgiven) to the line-up and released \"1938\" on Neurot Recordings, the band's first studio recording in 18 years. The limited edition \"Siam\" EP was also released on Neurot Recordings featuring alternate mixes of some of the \"1938\" material. In 2021 Savage Republic released the album \"Meteora\" on Gusstaff Records and during the tour promoting this album in January 2023, the band also played a concert in Wrocław, Poland. It became not only a document of this route, but also a kind of summary of their entire history. The album is released in CD format (the entire concert), as a black LP (over half of the concert) and as a limited red vinyl with an 8-inch vinyl record (lathe-cut) added with a few remaining songs from the concert. Both LP versions were pressed on thick 200g vinyl. 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The fact that it took us so many adjectives to describe \u003ci\u003eTragic Figures\u003c\/i\u003e lets you know just how unique of an album it is. Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde guitar players like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, scrap metal industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten, and Bay Area sludgecore nihilists Flipper' but really, this unlikely product of (mostly) UCLA undergrads sounds like no other record before or since. And only adding to \u003ci\u003eTragic Figures'\u003c\/i\u003e mystique are its graphics, which displayed band co-founder Bruce Licher's trademark letterpress printing and featured a UPI photo of rebels getting executed in Kurdistan, the ghostly images sharing space with a red lettering that gave the album's title in script that roughly translated 'tragic figures' into Arabic (which, in turn, had the unexpected effect of drawing more Iranian and Middle Eastern people to their shows)! Tragic Figures wasn't just a bold musical statement; it was an objet d'art in its own right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor its 40th anniversary edition, Real Gone Music worked with Bruce Licher to preserve and expand on the magical, talismanic quality of the initial release. The original album has been remastered from the original tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, while both the CD and LP editions boast an extra disc of largely unreleased rehearsal recordings taped in the bowels of UCLA parking garages, where the band used to practice to take advantage of the extended reverb afforded by all the concrete surfaces (imagine being an unwitting undergrad happening upon this unearthly din coming out of nowhere)! Richie Unterberger's liner notes feature interviews with band members Licher, Philip Drucker, and Jeff Long, and the CD and LP come with the original cover graphics expanded into a six-panel digipak and a gatefold jacket pressed in heavyweight 'chipboard' paper stock, respectively. Finally, the LP pressing is in red vinyl limited to 2000 copies. 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We're lucky enough to witness most of\nthe future 'Tragic Figures' tracks in a process of highly creative gestation, in the\nmiddle of being developed. 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Only 134 copies of this version available worldwide.\n\nHailing from the Los Angeles underground of the 1980s, Savage Republic forged an astonishing reputation for themselves as art-punk and industrial pioneers with their legendary\nperformances. Their brand of ritualistically tribal exhibitions blurred the boundaries of Post-Punk and Industrial music.\nTheir music incorporates minimialist bass rumbles, exotic and\/or militaristic drumming, Arabic melodies, alternate tunings, primal chants and even a bit of surf guitar.\nSavage Republic released four full length albums in the 1980s, plus several live records and compilation tracks.\n1989 everything went quiet as the republic scattered to pursue other interests and their labels and distributors folded. After reuniting in 2002 for a brief U.S. tour supporting the boxed-set reissue of their five studio albums by Mobilization Records, several of the members began sharing ideas for new songs, reviving the band officially in 2005.\nIn 2006\/2007 Savage Republic added drum professor Alan Waddington (the Unforgiven) to the line-up and released \"1938\" on Neurot Recordings, the band's first studio recording in 18 years. The limited edition \"Siam\" EP was also released on Neurot Recordings featuring alternate mixes of some of the \"1938\" material.\nIn 2021 Savage Republic released the album \"Meteora\" on Gusstaff Records and during the tour promoting this album in January 2023, the band also played a concert in Wrocław, Poland. It became not only a document of this route, but also a kind of summary of their entire history.\nThe album is released in CD format (the entire concert), as a black LP (over half of the concert) and as a limited red vinyl with an 8-inch vinyl record (lathe-cut) added with a few remaining songs from the concert. Both LP versions were pressed on thick 200g vinyl. Vinyl versions include download codes with the entire concert.\n\nThom Fuhrman about this tour:\n\"After every tour, there is an afterglow. The first 7-10 days after is a combination of exhaustion, joy, and waking up not knowing where the f*ck you are, wondering if you have to go to soundcheck, and then the disappointment when you realize that tour is over and there won't be a load in, soundcheck, show, and load out tonight.\nI can honestly say that of the dozen European tours we've done, this was the most physically arduous. Yeah, we played longer tours in '87 and '88, but the band is much more physical on stage now, more demanding of ourselves, and frankly, a f*ck of lot better. We've become the Savage Republic that I always hoped we would be, but never were in the old days. \nI demand a lot of my bandmates, but I know that in our limited available time , we accomplish so much ,and we've proven that time and again with this line up since 2009.)\nOn January 5th, woke up that morning in Belgium with a broken down van and the prospect of having to cancel our first show in the band's 40 year history. I told Ethan there is no f'ing way we're not playing in Berlin that night! Ethan went into action. Organized trains, and along with promoters, found amps and drums at the very last minute. We showed up several hours late, but when we finally got there, we played one of our best shows ever. \nThis story sums up this incarnation for me. I've said it a million times and I'll say it again, I wouldn't make another Savage Republic record with any other line up. Thank you to everyone that made this tour and the upcoming \"Live in Wroclaw\"album happen. Thanks to Luc for helping Pesha get the van back on the road. Thanks to Pesha and Camila for getting the van to Wroclaw a couple days later so we could continue. It was an odyssey, but worth every last precious exhausting second.\nOur fans\/friends mean so much to us. 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