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3" SR Palm Tree logo, centered on the chest

3" SR Palm Tree logo, centered on the chest

1980's design: 8" red SR Palm Tree logo, with Black "SAVAGE REPUBLIC" over-printed

3/4 Girls Raglan style

Youth Baseball Large

1980's design: 8" red SR Palm Tree logo, with Black "SAVAGE REPUBLIC" over-printed

1980's design: 8" red SR Palm Tree logo, with Black "SAVAGE REPUBLIC" over-printed

3/4 Girls Raglan style

Youth Baseball Large

Live '81-'83

Seminal underground experimental L.A. Instrumental band with early recordings from 81-83,Beautiful die-cut letterpress package from IPP. | 81-83
Independent Project Press

Right on the heels of a reunion tour (reunited after 13 years), Savage Republic offers us this collection of live recordings, dating back to their first live performance as Africa Corps in May, 1981. The legends that surround the band all state that they were much better live than they were in the studio; for on stage, a punk energy came to the forefront in the massive bass ploddings, slashing guitars, and junk-yard percussion. This collection, while clearly lacking in fidelity, proves the point that Savage Republic was certainly a kick-ass live band. Most of the material present also appeared on their debut "Tragic Figures" album, with a couple of previously unreleased / undocumented tracks. As I've never thought that Savage Republic's lyrics and vocals were particularly strong, they are fortunately few and far between in these live performances. The majority of the words are spoken as between song banter highlighted by the announcement that "Every band's gotta have a surf song!" Their's being the incendiary instrumental "Ivory Coast."

Complete recordings of Thom Fuhrmann's
Savage Republic era side project Autumnfair

Features bass player / vocalist Val Haller of "Lords of the New Church", "Wayne County"

Autumnfair was the short-lived side project of Savage Republic bassist Thom Fuhrmann and British transplant Val Haller. So shortlived, in fact, that by the time their first record was released on IPR in 1991, they had been broken up for two years. In spite of the personnel connection with Savage Republic, Autumnfair never really shared SR's aesthetic for nomadic punk and junk-yard percussion, instead bathing their sound with the bleak, post-punk atmospheres of Joy Division and Wire. Yet, Autumnfair did maintain some of the Savage Republic industrial grit with their dirgy flanged basslines and occasionally dissonant slabs
of guitar noise, amidst ethereal synthetic tones. "1986-1989" is fairly comprehensive collection of Autumnfair's recorded output, featuring remastered versions of the tracks from their posthumous vinyl-only release"Glaciers and Gods", along with a couple of tracks that veer more into the LA goth / darkwave sound due to Caroline Topalian's floating vocal theatrics. A welcome trawl through the archives of days long since past.
Also features Greg Grunke from Savage Republic on one track

Independent Project Records release of
Thom Furhmann's Savage Republic era side project Autumnfair

Stunning hand letterpressed cover by Bruce Licher at Independent Project Press

Features bass player / vocalist Val Haller of "Lords of the New Church", "Wayne County"

Powerful, heroic sonic chunks
with a Factory / 4AD feel.

The last studio release by Savage Republic.

Limited Edition of 1000

Recorded in Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov 1988

The fourth of four new reissues of the classic studio albums from seminal industrial-art-punk group SAVAGE REPUBLIC.

"Customs" was the final studio album from Savage Republic, recorded under considerable duress in Greece during an ill-fated 1988 tour in which all of their gear was confiscated by Greek customs! Thus, "Customs" was recorded entirely on borrowed equipment. The resulting album is not dissimilar to the usual Savage Republic sound of expansive songs that build up through the increasingly aggressive riffs of "monotone" guitars, but has been augmented with a handful of traditional Greek instruments such as hand drums and bouzouki. And, as a potentially useful piece of trivia, you might want to know that this album features Savage Republic's "Birds of Pork," which for years has been the preamble played before each and every Neurosis live show!

Release Date:2002
Mobilization

Format:4 CDs

Price: US Orders	$60 Post Paid U.S Almost sold out!
Price: Non-US Orders	$68 International AirMail included Almost sold out!

All four studio CDs in one discounted package

Tragic Figures, Ceremonial/Trudge, Jamahiriya, Customs

With special hand letter-pressed"wrap around" sleeve on first 400 copies.

The beautifully packaged boxset of all of the recent Savage Republic reissues ("Tragic Figures," "Ceremonial," "Jamahiriya," and "Customs") has of course been designed by former-Savage Republic member Bruce Licher and his renowned Independent Project Press and is a bargain if you plan on buying all four.

(click to view cover details) Audio Samples: Ivory Coast Film Noir When All Else Fails

Classic seminal 1982 debut release. Features Jeff Long of Wasted Youth.

Limited Edition of 1000

"Real Men" is featured in the film "Silence of the Lambs"

Packaged in a new fold over CD cover designed by Bruce Licher and hand letter-pressed at Independent Project Press with additional graphical insert

This CD is the first of four new reissues of the classic studio albums from seminal industrial-art-punk group SAVAGE REPUBLIC.

This reissue Includes all the original tracks, along with the cuts from the band's two 7-inches from 1983 and 1982, and two comp tracks, "Mobilization" and "On The Prowl." Eighteen tracks in all.

Originally released in 1982 on Independent Project Records , Tragic Figures is a captivating tribal, industrial and psychedelic experience. Culled from the underground utility tunnels and abandoned concrete architectures of early 1980s Los Angeles, these recordings document an intensity in both sound and art unique to the early 1980's Los Angeles "post-punk" scene. Savage Republic was one of Los Angeles' leading art-punk bands, fusing gritty post-Joy Division base lines, slashing guitars with occasional Arabic cadences, and a massive clatter of dense percussion at times worthy of comparisons to Test Dept. or Einsturzende Neubauten. Yet, Savage Republic always maintained a much closer relationship to the simple structuralism of punk, layering all of their percussive energy into complex articulations of a simple 4/4 beat. Originally called Africa Corps, Savage Republic recorded their 1982 debut "Tragic Figures" while its members were attending art school at UCLA. The resulting album is a vibrant cross section of LA's punk scene from the early '80s, slipping between dark, yet subtle Factory-ish songs to aggressive percussion assaults worthy of a Mad Max soundtrack (before Tina Turner, of course). While at their best, Savage Republic were a force to be reckoned with, these reissues force us to recall that vocals were never their strong point, wavering from a Steve Albini -like nasal delivery to a Lee Ving-ish throaty scream. The band's Bruce Licher has since gone on to form the acclaimed Independent Projects Press, developing a unique, celebrated style of beautifully letter-pressed packaging, of course utilized for these new Savage Republic reissues on Ethan Port and Scot Jenerik's Mobilization label. This disc features all of the tracks from previous CD editions, including the proper recordings from "Tragic Figures," the "Film Noir" 7" and a
couple of alternate versions.

The second and third  studio albums combined. 

Limited Edition of 1000

Packaged in a new fold over CD cover designed by Bruce Licher and hand letter-pressed at Independent Project Press with additional graphical insert

FEATURED in the "Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll"

This CD is the second of four new reissues of the classic studio albums from seminal industrial-art-punk group SAVAGE REPUBLIC.

Upon the release of the "Ceremonial" album and the "Trudge" ep in the mid-'80s, Savage Republic underwent a number of personnel changes which altered the group's sound from the primitive, percussion heavy art-punk found on "Tragic Figures" toward a far more expansive sound that has often been cited by Godspeed You Black Emperor! as one of their influences. Drawing heavily upon Turkish and Greek musical traditions, Savage Republic played quickening, repeated rock grooves that begin stoically out of quiet spaces and accelerated with soaring guitar solos into climatic crescendos. While descriptively this may sound much like the aforementioned GSYBE!, Savage Republic's production techniques were much rougher, at times sounding like early Joy Division. Similarly, Savage Republic's conceptual agenda always lacked the socially conscious overtones of that of GSYBE! Instead, Savage Republic triumphantly claimed something of a nomadic, masculine space reflected in the best of Burning Man culture. And fortunately, with the recordings found on this disc Savage Republic mostly did away with the vocals that somewhat hampered the success of their previous "Tragic Figures" LP. Again, beautifully packaged by Bruce Licher and Independent Project Press.

* The vocal version of Ceremonial is available
as a limited CDR edition.

The fourth Savage Republic studio album

Jamahiriya LP, plus instrumental bonus tracks. Includes "Spice Fields" and "Tabula Rasa"

Limited Edition of 1000

Packaged in a new fold over CD cover designed by Bruce Licher and hand letter-pressed at Independent Project Press with additional graphical insert

Since Savage Republic dissolved in the late '80s, most of its members went onto other projects, with Bruce Licher and Robert Loveless forming Scenic, Ethan Port working with Scot Jenerik in F-Space, and Thom Fuhrmann founding the amazing but short-lived Autumn Fair. "Jamahiriya Democratique" is Savage Republic's fourth album, exhibiting many of the traits that would later be so pronounced in these various post-breakup projects (especially Scenic). There is much less emphasis upon Savage Republic's trademarked junkyard / punk-as-fuck percussion, but they continue in their post-punk translations of Greek / Arabic motifs, with more of a production polish (which runs close to the dreamy sound of Bill Laswell's neo-prog professionalism). Vocals, absent on "Ceremonial", make a few returns, but aren't terribly annoying and are also offset by a couple of instrumental versions (i.e. "Viva La Rock 'n' Roll" which may be Savage Republic's best song, does much better as an instrumental track). Certainly, those of you who love Scenic's big sky expansiveness and Godspeed You Black Emperor!-esque guitar crescendos should check out the "Jamahiriya Democratique."

Price:	$14.98 Post Paid U.S. 2xLP Format:Double Vinyl LP (out of print)
	CD (OUT OF STOCK)

Live recordings taken from the 1985-1986 U.S. tour

Excellent document of the band with powerful versions of Ceremonial

One of the most popular Savage Republic releases