The Art of Walking is the fourth Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu (band)

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant...

 full-length. Mayo Thompson

Mayo Thompson

Mayo Thompson is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola .-1960s:...

 of The Red Krayola

Red Krayola

Red Krayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas in 1966. The band was led by singer/guitarist and visual artist Mayo Thompson, along with drummer Frederick Barthelme and Steve Cunningham...

 joined as guitarist for this album, and slanted the proceedings further towards deconstruction and abstraction, and away from the primal rock that former guitarist Tom Herman had facilitated. The group would record one more album with Thompson before disbanding. A notable devotee of the album was avante garde musician and future Pere Ubu member Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...

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An error in the first US pressing of the LP resulted in a vocal overdub mix being used of "Arabia" - the original UK pressing used the correct instrumental mix. The first Rough Trade CD edition also used the accidental second mix, but the remastering on the Datapanik box set restored the correct version. The individual remastered disc issued subsequently included both (titling the vocal version "Arabian Nights".) Later editions of the album also changed the title of "Miles" to "Young Miles in the Basement". The song "Horses" originally appeared on Mayo Thompson's solo album Corky's Debt to His Father in 1970.

Track listing

1. "Go" – 3:34
2. "Rhapsody in Pink" – 3:35
3. "Arabia" – 4:58
4. "Young Miles in the Basement" – 4:20
5. "Misery Goats" – 2:37
6. "Loop" – 3:14
7. "Rounder" – 3:25
8. "Birdies" – 2:27
9. "Lost in Art" – 5:11
10. "Horses" – 2:34
11. "Crush This Horn" – 3:00

All songs written by Pere Ubu, except "Horses" (Mayo Thompson).

Personnel

• Mayo Thompson
  Mayo Thompson
  Mayo Thompson is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola .-1960s:...
  
   – guitar, piano, backing vocals, lead vocal ("Loop" & "Horses")
• Scott Krauss – drums, horn, piano, drum machine
• Tony Maimone
  Tony Maimone
  Tony Maimone is a bass player, producer, and engineer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.He was a member of Pere Ubu from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, often playing with drummer Scott Krauss...
  
   – bass, piano, organ
• Allen Ravenstine – EML synthesizers
• David Thomas
  David Thomas (musician)
  David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...
  
  – vocals, Vox Continental Baroque organ, drums ("Lost In Art")