Influenza Prods

Memoire

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• 01 niente
• 02 memoir
• 03 pretty city
• 04 rocking gertrude
• 05 leftovers
• 06 cio che vide il pescatore siculo
• 07 improvviso
• 08 kada polazi vlak
• 09 anduma a pe
• 10 animal lovers
• 11 wu-shih
• 12 piccolino
• 13 peace soup

In 1981 the pair moved back to Italy and found an apartment in Rome. It’s here that they began to focus on their music and where they started ‘recording’ their tracks. First, they would record the rhythm, maybe add the Gigster (the name of their “cheap drum machine”), the bass, and then, as they made a copy of the first cassette onto a second cassette they would add guitar, more synth, or both at the same time. After that, it was not unusual to copy from the second cassette back into the first cassette adding even more stuff. As with many artists during the early 80’s, the Influenza Prods’ sound was the direct result of the accessibility of emerging electronic instruments and the recording equipment available to them. The duo was resourceful and inventive, acquiring new equipment as resources allowed. They recorded dialogue from British Soap Operas on their TV set, which were later added to their tracks, while further making use of their family’s cutlery sets, which were used to fill in certain percussion sections