X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents (CD) Ananda Shankar and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam

and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil

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those elements shaping the album as much as the voice and the instruments held within

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X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents (CD) Ananda Shankar and pianist Emahoy Tsege MariamGermfree Adolescents, one of the signature albums of the early (1978) British punk movement, that serves as an ideal prism through which to see the hypocrisy of consumerist culture. The one and only LP release from X Ray Spex and its irrepressible frontwoman Poly Styrene has been deemed by everybody from Greil Marcus to Robert Christgau to Spin to Mojo as one of the greatest punk albums ever made. All of which she sings in a passionate yowl all her