Sort Of

Sort Of
Studio album by Slapp Happy
Released	1972 (1972)
Recorded	May-June 1972, Wümme, Germany
Genre	Avant-rock
Length	41:42
Label	Polydor
Producer	Uwe Nettelbeck
Slapp Happy chronology
– Sort Of (1972) Slapp Happy (1974)
Singles from Sort Of
"Just a Conversation" b/w "Jumpin' Jonah" Released: 1972, Polydor Records

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Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, West Germany in May and June 1972.

Track listing

All titles written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore.

Side 1

1. "Just a Conversation" – 4:02
2. "Paradise Express" – 2:40
3. "I Got Evil" – 2:30
4. "Little Girl's World" – 3:25
5. "Tutankhamun" – 2:17
6. "Mono Plane" – 6:50

Side 2

7. "Blue Flower" – 5:10
8. "I'm All Alone" – 2:30
9. "Who's Gonna Help Me Now?" – 2:25
10. "Small Hands of Stone" – 4:38
11. "Sort Of" – 2:15
12. "Heading for Kyoto" – 3:00

CD bonus track

13. "Jumping Jonah" – 3:03

Personnel

• Peter Blegvad – guitar, saxophone, vocals
• Dagmar Krause (credited as "Daggi") – vocals, tambourine, piano, woodblock
• Anthony Moore – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Gunther Wüsthoff – saxophone on "Paradise Express" and "I'm All Alone"
• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
• Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar

• Gunther, Zappi, and Jean recorded through courtesy of Faust
• Engineered by Kurt Graupner
• Album design and cover by David Larcher

CD releases

Sort Of was released on CD by Blueprint Records in 1995 with an extra track (from the B-side of their single "Just a Conversation"):

• "Jumpin' Jonah'" (Moore/Blegvad) – the CD was mastered from a vinyl copy as the master tapes had been lost

The same master was also issued in Japan with an additional 3" CD single:

• "Alcohol" (Blegvad)

References

External links

• Peter Blegvad Discography
• Sort Of. The Faust Pages