47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing, by D.N.E.

47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing

by D.N.E.

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1.	Around 00:26	buy track
2.	Gold 00:34	buy track
3.	Absolute 00:58	buy track
4.	Chemistry 00:47	buy track
5.	Phenomena 00:54	buy track
6.	Transmutation 00:26	buy track
7.	Secret 00:38	buy track
8.	Eternity 00:29	buy track
9.	Sun 00:55	buy track
10.	Medicine 00:41	buy track
11.	Stone 00:48	buy track
12.	Circle 00:51	buy track
13.	Here 00:48	buy track
14.	Exegesis 00:42	buy track
15.	Materia Prima 01:00	buy track
16.	Fire 00:37	buy track
17.	Black 01:59	buy track
18.	Cycle 00:23	buy track
19.	Our Chaos 00:40	buy track
20.	Heat 00:44	buy track
21.	Elements 00:50	buy track
22.	Volatile 00:20	buy track
23.	Body 00:36	buy track
24.	It Is 00:22	buy track
25.	Another 00:21	buy track
26.	Water 00:34	buy track
27.	Magnesia 00:37	buy track
28.	Reduction 00:30	buy track
29.	Seed 00:35	buy track
30.	Accident 00:19	buy track
31.	Virus 00:50	buy track
32.	Microscopes 00:20	buy track
33.	Vapour 00:40	buy track
34.	Law 00:21	buy track
35.	Invisibility 00:24	buy track
36.	Index 00:31	buy track
37.	Fact 00:15	buy track
38.	Middle 00:37	buy track
39.	Mirror 00:27	buy track
40.	Forget 00:47	buy track
41.	Waited 00:33	buy track
42.	Bone 00:36	buy track
43.	Level 00:42	buy track
44.	Relative 01:13	buy track
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46.	Line 00:59	buy track
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about

Eugene Carchesio’s renown as a visual artist has unjustly eclipsed his extraordinary output as a soundmaker. Since the mid 80s, the Brisbane artist has steadfastly proliferated a sack full of barely released cassettes and cdrs under the D.N.E. moniker.

Twenty years ago, he emptied his wallet to press 250 copies of the appropriately titled LP "47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing”. Then compact discs arrived. The local pressing plant closed and the master tape went with it. Copies were circulated to friends. A handful made it to England. A copy did the rounds in Dunedin. And then suddenly, the clutch of remaining copies disappeared.

To a small legion, 47 Songs became a coveted item, its whacked miniaturism a visionary jolt of intuitive post punk energy. A suggestion of Ayler, a Chadbournesque styling, a No Wave propulsion. This was not a jazz album! These were 47 small constructions. Sound diamonds. Songs. Not for human tongue, yet instantly humable. Acoustic, yet coursing with electricity. Currents of energy running through its veins. D.N.E. Spiritual genetics. Recorded in a frenzied three days on four tracks of cassette. The sum of parts. Twenty three plus twenty four small explosions.

This 20th anniversary reissue has been faithfully remastered from the vinyl, finally restoring this lost Australian classic. Out of the vault, onto disc, the sparks still flying!

Leighton Craig, Brisbane, November 2008

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released March 5, 1990

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