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LOVE SONGS

by Menko Konings

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1.
If My Love Wants A Rolls Roys 03:31
2.
Where Ever You Go 03:23
3.
Love You So 03:10
4.
Oeh Ah! 04:42
5.
Miss You 03:08
6.
Number 1 04:14
7.
Laughing (Heaven & Hell) 03:10
8.
Call Me 03:34
lyrics
Lyrics by Antonia (Tonny Timmermans).
9.
Drunk Of Your Love (In A Chinese Restaurant) 02:04
10.
A Really Good Time 03:11

about

The 12" LP LOVE SONGS is a selection from the cassette tapes recorded 1984-1986 by Menko Konings (aka EM / Menko / eM.).
They are never released on vinyl before. Also added two previously unpublished songs.

Including download code and free (high quality) CD by S.M. NURSE inside the LP.

Bonus items when you order/download at Top Tape Bandcamp: images of the original cassette tape sleeves To, To New York, B-Movies and Dedicated To Charles Bronson.

“When I went solo in 1983 (after S.M. Nurse) I only had a guitar, a bass and a four track cassette tape recorder. Sometimes I borrowed a rithmebox or a synth for a couple of days. These solo cassette tapes were created in that period.”

LOVE SONGS is composed and performed by Menko Konings, except lyrics “call me” by Antonia (Tonny Timmermans).

“The Last Album” by S.M Nurse is a free CD-album with almost one hour of tape recordings never released before. It concerns rehearsals, improvisations, experiments, live and studio recordings, from the period between 1982 and 1983:

. Worst Und Bier (long version 1982)
. Schatten (1982)
. Negative (1983)
. Mushroom (1983)
. No Action (1982)
. Heimwerker (long version 1982)
. No Title (1982)
. Running (1983)
. Cannibal (live rehearsal Madame Arthur 1983)
. Hot Day (live rehearsal Madame Arthur 1983)
. Frutta (live rehearsal Madame Arthur 1983)
. My Greedy Policeman (live at Paradiso Amsterdam 1983)

LOVE SONGS is an edition of 200 copies.

Tape restoration / remasters LOVE SONGS, The Last Album, On The One and Butterflies; by Rude 66.

Special thanks to Julien Viallet (Notte Brigante) who gave the idea for the selection love songs and to Sacha Mambo, Rude 66 and Jordi Serrano for their advice, help and support.

Sales and distribution by Rush Hour (NL), Concerto (NL), Rubadub (UK) and Top Tape (Bandcamp).

Preorders: 29-1-2024.
Release: 12-3-2024.

More info about Menko Konings: www.reverbnation.com/em1

Video EM 1988: youtu.be/VtMi28fbLsI?si=HcWovZ-UGHyHd4E6

The proceeds of this production (like all Top Tape productions) will go to new Top Tape projects.

Hope you enjoy the albums! 

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released March 12, 2024

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