ALL TRACKS WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY RENALDO AND THE LOAF EXCEPT BOULE!, WRITTEN BY PTÔSE, ARRANGED BY RENALDO & THE LOAF RENALDO M: DULCIMER, HOOVER TUBE, CASIO 202, BOUZOUKI, PERCUSSION, EGYPTIAN DRUM, CHINESE CYMBAL, HARMONICA, VIOLIN, GLOCKENSPIEL, PICKLE JAR & VOICE TED THE LOAF: TAPE LOOPS, BOUZOUKI, ELECTRONIC DRUMS, 12 STRING ACOUSTIC GUITAR, PERCUSSION, THUMBPIANO, CASIO 202, MANDOLIN, GUITAR & CLARINET BOTH: DICE GENERATED RANDOM PERCUSSION PROGRAMS, DRUM PROGRAMS, SAMPLE VOICES & BOWED KOTO (FROM 'FRISCO) THANKS TO: TREVOR GILBERT WHO PLAYED AND ARRANGED DESCANT & TREBLE RECORDERS ON STREET CALLED STRAIGHT 'G' – LADY VOICE & 'H' – INQUIZATIVE AMERICAN ON ELBOW IS TABOO RE-MASTERED FOR VINYL AND CUT BY RASHAD BECKER AT D&M, BERLIN, NOV 2018 ORIGINAL ALBUM RECORDED CHEZ STRUVÉ 1984 TO 1986 COVER DESIGN & LAYOUT BY NIK VOID ORIGINAL COVER CONCEPT BY RENALDO & THE LOAF PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE WARDEN THE ELBOW IS TABOO © ROTCOD PRODUCTIONS 1987 & 2016 ELBONUS © ROTCOD PRODUCTIONS 2016 EXCEPT THEN AT IONA LANTHEM 1983 & 2016 HAMBU HODO 12" & WRITING POSTCARDS 1986 & 2016 HAUL ON THE BOWLINE 1987 & 2016 THIS VINYL REISSUE MANUFACTURED & RELEASED BY EDITIONS MEGO, 2019 The Elbow is Taboo was Renaldo & The Loaf's fourth and last album of their initial phase prior to their return in 2010. Released by Ralph in America and Some Bizzare in the UK in 1987 this work represents a development in the overall sound as they utilize an 8 track recorder along with early digital effects. A large arsenal of acoustic instrumentation gives the record an additional unsettling atmosphere. Recorded over a 3 year period this remains the definitive statement by the group in this early period. As clarified by Brian from the band, the themes remain as obtuse and alluring as ever with each song containing it's own story. "be it a child's desire to control (A Street Called Straight), the ridiculous purdah of an innocent part of the body (The Elbow is Taboo), a call for help in times of angst (Here's To the Oblong Boys), the rigours of a bread fetish (The Bread Song), the anger of a dance teacher to the terminally inept (Critical/Dance) or a ritual call to prayer, somewhere (Extracting the Re-re)". Disorientating and delightful this is a must for all fans of the Loaf and for those tickled by the more deranged spectrum of song.