Live performance brought out Throbbing Gristle's talents for improvisation and provocation,
and it's no coincidence that most of their classic albums contain sizeable extracts and
edits of their shows; the live arena - be it grotty club, gallery space, concert hall or
even the band's own rehearsal space - is where the action and the innovation really
happened. The bulk of Heathen Earth documents one particular performance which took place in
1980 on "Saturday the 16th February between 8:10pm and 9.00pm"; the tracklist is filled out
with two recordings from two separate performances in '78. It's a hugely enjoyable listen,
arguably capturing better than any of the "studio" albums the tension between free-wheeling
abstraction and structural discipline which defines the group. It's also probably the most
obviously electronic TG album of its time, Gen's guitar and Cosey's cornet duelling with
Carter and Sleazy's clipped, clammy minimal synth constructions: 'The Old Man Smiled',
'Something Came Over Me', 'Don't Do As Your Told, Do As You Think' and 'The World Is A War
Film' are all breathtakingly, pulsatingly ahead of their time. 'Still Walking', first heard
on 20 Jazz Funk Greats, sounds even more surreal and seductive in its live incarnation,
Cosey's dour East Yorkshire vowels echoed to infinity, before P.Orridge presents a vision of
paranoia and self-loathing purified in 'Sub Human' and 'Adrenalin' brings things to an oddly
ecstatic, hi-NRG close, Carter fully indulging his arpeggiated Euro-disco inclinations.
Unmissable.
Tracklist:
01 Cornet
02 The Old Man Smiled
03 Improvisation
04 The World Is A War Film
05 Something Came Over Me
06 Still Talking
07 Bass
08 Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think
09 Painless Childbirth
10 Subhuman
11 Adrenalin
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