Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . The band formed in Germany in 1972. The band members moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up. Slapp...

. It was recorded in Wümme, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 in May and June 1972.

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

Personnel

• Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...
  
   – Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals
• Dagmar Krause
  Dagmar Krause
  Dagmar Krause is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups like Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Art Bears. She is also noted for her coverage of songs by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler...
  
   (credited as "Daggi") – Vocals, Tambourine, Piano, Woodblock
• Anthony Moore
  Anthony Moore
  Anthony Moore is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums, including Flying Doesn't Help and World Service .As a lyricist, Moore has collaborated with Pink Floyd on...
  
   – Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
• Gunter 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
  Faust (band)
  Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History: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
  Anthony Moore
  Anthony Moore is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums, including Flying Doesn't Help and World Service .As a lyricist, Moore has collaborated with Pink Floyd on...
  
  /Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...
  
  ) – 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
  Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...
  
  )

External links

• Peter Blegvad Discography.
• Sort Of. The Faust Pages.