Savage Republic
Live At The Melkweg 25.9.87
100 copies. C60 cassette with improved master and fullcolor print on the cassette but original printwork. Los Angeles, September 1987. Savage Republic are in the middle of their first European tour when they land at Amsterdam's legendary Melkweg. What gets captured on eight-track tape that night is pure alchemy: tribal post-punk, cosmic surf, oil drum industrial and guitars droning like desert prayers.
Founded in 1981 by Bruce Licher and Mark Erskine in the underground parking garages of UCLA - …
Sword Fighter - Taranto!!!
Savage Republic originally released "Sword Fighter/Taranto !!!" through Italy's A Silent Place records. These singles are limited edition 7" records. Packaging designed by Andrea Scarfone of Julie's Haircut. Diecut and numbered covers individually hand silk screened. Full color silkscreened inserts and die-cut white card inner sleeves.
Procession: An Aural History
Definitive best of CD by acclaimed Los Angeles postpunk group Savage Republic. Formed by noted artist-designer Bruce Licher in 1981, and inspired equally by punk and Krautrock, the band went on to record four studio albums between 1982 and 1989, most issued through their own Independent Project Records label. The band were particularly popular in Europe, touring regularly, and even grazing mainstream consciousness with an appearance on the soundtrack of the movie Silence of the Lambs.
The …
Savage Republic
LIMITED to 300 copies, already out of print, this is a 4 x CD box set includes all 4 reissues, "Tragic Figures", "Ceremonial/Trudge", "Jamahiriya Democratique", & "Customs" in specially designed, hand letterpressed wraparound sleeve by SR founder Bruce Licher from Independent Project Press. Like Einsturzende Neubauten, Savage Republic became known for their desolate scrap metal percussion and confrontational performance strategies, and thankfully there's plenty of evidence for those sorts of dar…