DURUTTI COLUMN, THE TREATISE ON THE STEPPENWOLF + HUMAN AVATARS 2LP (RSD 2023)

RELEASE DATE:22 APR 2023

FORMAT

2LP

LABEL

Factory Benelux

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Factory Benelux presents the very first vinyl edition of the only soundtrack album recorded by The Durutti Column, the Factory Records ensemble fronted by lauded guitarist and composer Vini Reilly. A limited edition of 1000 copies on 180gm black vinyl have been pressed for Record Store Day 2023. Treatise on the Steppenwolf is a soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty (of fellow Factory band The Wake), first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in an ongoing state of conflict. Steppenwolf was something Id read recently and when we approached Durutti Column with the idea it turned out they were interest