Male is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Foetus in Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe

Foetus (band)

Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...

. It records the Foetus live performance of November 3, 1990 in Manhattan's

Manhattan

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 famed CBGB

CBGB

CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...

 nightclub

Nightclub

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. A film

Film

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 of this performance, also titled Male, was also released.

Though there is no indication on the album itself, the discography included with the Sink reissue identifies Male as Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 005.

Disc one

1. "Free James Brown" – 4:36
2. "Fin" – 1:56
3. "Hot Horse" – 5:08
4. "English Faggot" – 6:25
5. "Faith Healer" (Alex Harvey
   Alex Harvey (musician)
   Alex Harvey was a Scottish rock musician. With The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the 1970s glam rock era.-Biography:...
   
    / Hugh McKenna) – 7:20
6. "Honey I'm Home" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann
   Roli Mosimann
   Roli Mosimann is a drummer, electronic musician and record producer who has worked in genres ranging from industrial to pop. Originally from Switzerland, Mosimann first came to attention with the New York City no wave band Swans and later collaborated with Foetus leader J. G...
   
   ) – 9:25
7. "Butterfly Potion" – 3:09
8. "I'll Meet You in Poland Baby" – 7:43

Disc two

1. "Anything (Viva!)" – 8:41
2. "Death Rape 2000" – 1:59
3. "Puppet Dude" (Thirlwell / Don Fleming
   Don Fleming
   Donald Denver "Don" Fleming was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League for three seasons in the early 1960s. Fleming played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the...
   
    / Jay Spiegel / Jim Dunbar) – 4:56
4. "Stumbo" (Thirlwell / Mosimann) – 7:55
5. "Someone Drowned in My Pool" – 9:25
6. "Behemoth" (TAD
   Tad
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   ) – 8:05
7. "Your Salvation" – 14:24

• "Death Rape 2000," "Stumbo," and "Someone Drowned in My Pool" originally by Thirlwell's Wiseblood
  Wiseblood
  Wiseblood is an electronic noise-rock band formed by Clint Ruin and Roli Mosimann. In Ruin's words, Wiseblood is "violent macho American [music] made by non-Americans." The material tends toward the realm of the darkest and most sexual Foetus songs, with Mosimann's Swans lineage showing in the...
  
   project.
• "Faith Healer" is a cover
  Cover version
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   of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
• "Behemoth" is a cover of TAD
  Tad (band)
  Tad was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington led by Tad Doyle. Among the first of the many bands which came out of Seattle in the grunge era, Tad was notable for the fact that its music had a noticeable 1970s metal influence, rather than the punk which influenced most other grunge bands...
  
  .
• "Puppet Dude" is a reworked cover of Elton John's
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
   "Rocket Man."

Performers

• Clint Ruin
  J. G. Thirlwell
  James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Algis Kizys
  Algis Kizys
  Algis Kizys is a New York City bass guitarist most well-known for his long-time membership in No Wave indie band Swans. First joining Swans on 1986s Greed LP, he stayed with the group through The Great Annihilator...
  
   - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• David Ouimet
  David Ouimet
  David Ouimet is an American musician and artist. He was a band member of Cop Shoot Cop, Motherhead Bug, Firewater, and Sulfur but has since moved on to interests other than music....
  
   - Samplers
  Sampler (musical instrument)
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  , Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Norman Westberg
  Norman Westberg
  Norman Westberg is a New York City guitarist best known for his work with Swans. Present through almost the entirety of the band's existence, Westberg was brought on for Swans' debut album Filth and appeared on every album through 1991s White Light From the Mouth of Infinity...
  
   - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Hahn Rowe
  Hahn Rowe
  Hahn Rowe is an internationally renowned violinist, guitarist, composer, and record producer involved in a wide-range of projects. Originally a violinist and guitarist with New York City dream-poppers Hugo Largo, Rowe became a session player in the New York scene.As a musician, he has played on...
  
   - Violin
  Violin
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  , Guitar
• Vinnie Signorelli
  Vincent Signorelli
  Vincent Signorelli is a drummer from New York City, more specifically Brooklyn. Signorelli's involvement with the New York punk scene began quite early, playing drums with the Dots. It is the Dots drum kit that was used during a recording session with the Bad Brains...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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Personnel

• J. G. Thirlwell
  J. G. Thirlwell
  James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...
  
   - Production, execution
• Mark Ohe - Execution
• Martin Bisi
  Martin bisi
  Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter.He is known for recording important records by Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Material, Bill Laswell, Helmet, Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, White Zombie, Boredoms, Angels of Light and Herbie Hancock's Grammy-winning song Rockit,In 1979, Martin Bisi...
  
   - Mastering

Concert Film

In 1993, a year after the album hit stores, the Male performance was released as concert film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 by Self Immolation

Self Immolation

Self Immolation is a record label and publishing company run by J. G. Thirlwell. Originally an actual label for Thirlwell's self-released early Foetus EPs and albums, Self Immolation became more akin to a vanity label for Thirlwell's releases on Some Bizzare Records and Wax Trax! Records...

/Atavistic

Atavistic Records

Atavistic Records is an American rock and jazz record label based in Chicago, Illinois, known particularly for its No Wave and free jazz recordings. It has released albums by Glenn Branca, Nels Cline, Lydia Lunch, Peter Brötzmann, various Ken Vandermark projects, Pinetop Seven, Swans, Elliott...

. Instead of a straight video of the concert, the Male film applies simple video effects to the raw footage. A DVD

DVD

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version of the film was released by Music Video Distributions in 2003.

Film Tracklisting

1. "Free James Brown"
2. "Fin"
3. "Hot Horse"
4. "English Faggot"
5. "Faith Healer"
6. "Honey I'm Home"
7. "Butterfly Potion"
8. "I'll Meet You in Poland Baby"
9. "Anything (Viva!)"
10. "Death Rape 2000"
11. "Stumbo"
12. "Behemoth"
13. "Your Salvation"

External links

• Male at foetus.org