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2016 12 " picture disc album - 'A love affair with nature'

Deluxe Redux edition / 2016 ReMasters w/ Free Digitals including 14 other rare tracks (24 in all) + Top Notch PDF Booklet

Released by Chapter Music of Melbourne

3rd Vinyl release for what has proven to be a Cannanes evergreen!

Remastered by Joseph Carra` at Crystal Mastering

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"A love affair with nature"
'I woke up' - 'Take me to the hotel Johanna (and let's trash the joint)' - 'Sound of the city' - 'Nuisance' - 'Seatbelt' - 'Move some things around' - 'Paper bag' - '52 Linthorpe Street' - 'Blue skies over the ocean' - 'Vivienne' [ As well as the bonus 14 Digital tracks ]
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2013 7" ep - 'Hit The Wall' & 'Technology's Dead' c/w 'This Is Now'

Fran and Stephen with Steward & Jen , recorded in Flagstaff in June '13 by Ben Lippard, Ltd edition 'Uranium Ware' look & 'Audiophile Black'

Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service

Released by Emotional Response Records of Flagstaff

HOWLING

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This album started out as an update on our 2nd album A Love Affair with Nature ~ here's a shot of the handsome gatefold sleeve designed by David Nichols

2013 12" album with chunky gatefold sleeve - "Howling at all Hours"

Recorded and Mixed at Lances' Amps & Lamps; Bendigo Australia

Produced by Lance Hillier

Released 5th July 2013 on Chapter Music of Melbourne Australia

Launch to take place at The Toff In Town in Melbourne on the evening of the 28th of September 2013 ~ this will probably be the only time we will ever attempt to play this album live in it's entirety!

[ also on cd ] see CD's for reviews including:

Four Stars (the Max!) in the September 2013 Rolling Stone (Australia) and Four and a Half Stars in major Australian daily newspapers The Age. The Canberra Times, & The Sydney Morning Herald

"Howling at all Hours "
'Stephanie' - 'Not Camping Out' - 'A Bigger Splash' - 'I Woke Up in Hargreaves Mall' - 'Melting Moments' - 'Fawn Summers' - 'Countryside' - 'Absence' - 'Is it because I'm bleak' - 'The gesture' - 'Lime Tree'
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Review from The Age Newspaper 23rd August 2013

BATCH

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Handsomely packaged, and a great sounding slab of vinyl, pressed in The Netherlands!

2013 12" 6 song Maxi EP - "Small Batch "

by The Cannanes with E.R.

Recorded in New York & Bendigo

Produced by Stephen Hermann

Mastered in New York

U.S. Release 28th May 2013 on Exro.fm Recordings of New York N.Y. [ also on cd ] see CD's for stacks of reviews

"Small Batch"
'Bumper' - 'Crawler' - 'Basics' - 'Molecule' - 'Tiny Compartment' - 'Zone'

RARE BEAUTY!

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Without a doubt one of the most beautiful picture discs ever made! fine art by our own Andrew Coffey as well as a bunch of damn fine songs.

2000 12" picture disc album - "Communicating at an unknown rate"

by The Cannanes with Steward.

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Released October 2000 on 555 Recordings of Leeds U.K. [ also on cd released by Yoyo in the U.S.] see CD's for reviews track listing etc...

"Communicating at an unknown rate"
'Hey Leopard' - 'Mirage' - 'Music and Me' - 'Clean Forgot' - 'Fragments' - 'Not Quite Right' - 'SDJ' - 'Remember the Theremin' - 'Sharpie' - 'Kurrajong Hotel' - 'Oh yeah!' - 'Astra' - 'Savage'
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2000 Double A side 7" single - 'Miserable' c/w ' William'

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Released by 555 Recordings of Leeds in the year 2000

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1997 7" maxi - single - 'It's a fine line between pleasure and pain' c/w 'Smoking' & 'Commitment'

Fine line is not, as the title might suggest, a cover or the Divynils classic

Released by Harriet Records of Cambridge (MA. U.S.A.)

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1996 7" ep - 'Simple question' c/w 'Fall', 'Dreadful' & 'Outasite'

SQ being an alternate version of the album track + one song each by David, Francesca and Stephen on the flipside + classy gatefold sleeve.

Released by AJAX records of Chicagogo

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1994 7" maxi - single - 'Prototype' c/w 'Bad Timing' & 'Der Fuhrender Sydney Rechtsanwalt'

One pop classic, one ballad and one freaky collaboration with Chris Hiedemann of Sukpatch fame

Released by Little Teddy records of the G.D.R.

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1993 7" maxi - 'Frightening thing' c/w 'monsieur Hot' & 'Let's Pretend'

F.T. very different to album version

Once named by Greil Marcus as one of his top 5 things!

Released by K

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1992 7" maxi - 'Singing to Satellites' c/w 'Another Fight' & 'Passionfruit'

Classic Gus period songs with nifty silk screened sleeve

Released by AJAX records of Chicago

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1992 7" maxi - 'Broken bottles' c/w 'eating biscuits' & 'pizza addict'

U.K. only release thanks to the good folk at Bi-joopiter who also designed and executed the eye catching silk screened sleeve

1991 12" album - "A love affair with nature"

May lack the inner sleeve of the 1st and 3rd vinyl versions but is Pressed on snow white vinyl

Released by Feel Good All Over [Records] of Chicago

Probably our most popular album to date. [Later released on CD by AJAX Records see CD section for details - and in 2016 as 12" Picture Disc + Digitals (see above)]

"A love affair with nature"
'I woke up' - 'Take me to the hotel Johanna (and let's trash the joint)' - 'Sound of the city' - 'Nuisance' - 'Seatbelt' - 'Move some things around' - 'Paper bag' - '52 Linthorpe Street' - 'Blue skies over the ocean' - 'Vivienne'

1989 12" album - "A love affair with nature"

1st Australian pressing on beautiful clear pink vinyl

Released by us (as a custom pressing) no label

Probably our most popular album to date. [Later released on CD by AJAX Records see CD section for details - and in 2016 as 12" Picture Disc + Digitals (see above)]

"A love affair with nature"
'I woke up' - 'Take me to the hotel Johanna (and let's trash the joint)' - 'Sound of the city' - 'Nuisance' - 'Seatbelt' - 'Move some things around' - 'Paper bag' - '52 Linthorpe Street' - 'Blue skies over the ocean' - 'Vivienne'

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1988 7" single - 'cardboard' c/w 'woe'

Cardboard is still one of our more popular live numbers

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1988 7" single - 'I think the weathers affected your brain' c/w 'stories to be kept under lock and key'

'Twin' single to cardboard (ie. both recorded in the same sessions and released on the same day!)

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1987 7" ep - 'No One' c/w 'Rabbits Wedding' & 'Theme for a Dag'

Lo-fi cassette classics

Released by K records of Washington State

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1987 12" album - "The African Man's Tomato"

Our 1st album on glorious black vinyl

1st pressing black sleeve

2nd pressing dark blue sleeve

[later re-released on cd as "Witchetty Pole" in the U.S. - see cd section for details]

"The African Man's Tomato"
'Scaled Down' - 'Sweater' - 'Brain' - 'Middle Eastern Potentate' - 'Country Life' - 'Ode' - 'Gloom,pt.1' - 'I Wish I Were You' - 'Love Only Takes A Minute' - 'Corn Chips' - 'Revenge Was No Answer' - 'We Drink Bitter' - 'Dead Animal' - 'One Day'

 

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Our 1st vinyl release, 4 timeless classics from the original (more or less) lineup proclaimed NME single of the year!

1986 7" - Bored, Angry, and Jealous ep - 'Stop It' & ' I Don't Want to Hear About Your Problems' c/w 'You're So Groovy' & 'Untitled'

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Reviewed by The Legend in New Musical Express issue of the 11th April 1987

 

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