Unreleased until last year, teenager Chandra Oppenheim penned “Day Without Success” among other razor-sharp kiss-offs around 1983. Her music provides an individual and uncompromising glimpse into the mind of youth that would only be possible in the heyday of underground New York post-punk in the early 80s.
Here, the production is rudimentary, cold, and sputtering, with Oppenheim’s voice pacing into frame, speaking to the quiet futility and horror of contemporary labor, narrating the life of someone slowly realizing the limited scope of their being and worth. Her words rise from the rain in the gutter, clashing in defiant echoes against blackened brick walls––brooding but provoked.
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Psetta is an interdisciplinary artist & musician. Hailing from Portland, Maine, he curates community radio programming, flirting with mundane, innovative & surreal sounds.
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Zanmi kanmarad – Claudette et Ti Pierre
24 March 2020
“Zanmi kanmarad” was first released in 1979 on Claudette et Ti Pierre’s second Macaya Records album, Camionette. Information on the duo themselves beyond Discogs’ dedicated archivist community proved to be more difficult to piece together…