After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar instrumental and the now sadly neglected practice of collective arrangement, intense rehearsal and live studio performance. Appropriate to the half century that has passed since the birth of the form, these hits dodge about, get bored easily and blend both concentration and complexity with the still indispensable traditional qualities that made the genre great: hummability, crafted sounds, nifty arrangements, ridiculous gimmicks and ensemble playing. 'Neither tribute nor parody, these enigmatic pieces are never more nor less than exactly what they are'.... wrote Lothar Preen in his Melbourne concert review....'but perfectly realised'. With film stills, misleading sleeve-notes and storyboard by the Diogenesian recluse Frank Key.
01 Duckpond 02 Beppo gets crunched 03 The desparate twins 04 Baffling calcium lantern light 05 Stalking contessa 06 A base knave behind the arras 07 Casa incognita 08 Things get looped 09 Albino hen coop 10 Poisoned tunic 11 Why is the king grunting? 12 Enter pabstus tack
13 Fateful speech impediment 14 [cut from the film at primrose dent's whim] 15 Seven ignorant cousins 16 The flight of beppo 17 Gone with the window