The Pruttipal Index, by Goodiepal, Bananskolen

The Pruttipal Index

by Goodiepal, Bananskolen

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	1.	Ginnungagab 08:20
	2.	Whistlegraph's er bare Düre 06:11
	3.	Escaping From The Zoo 05:05
	4.	Over Havet & ud i det blå 05:15
	5.	Late Night Music For Two Random Tone Generators 07:56
	6.	En figur til Dagmar (Kaslov Edit) 05:13
	7.	Nynnes Indkøbs Sang 03:09
	8.	A is For: Kitsja Man 02:28
	9.	Fest 04:44
	10.	You Can't Stop The Hardcore 03:59
	11.	Flyvende Flemming Til: Fredag i Firenze 03:03
	12.	Fan Brev Til: Keith Fullerton BS-OS 05:03
	13.	Same as (06) 03:45
	14.	V-Lars Signatur 10:53
	15.	The ghost from The Teenage Roast 05:47
	16.	Whistlegraph'er 06:01
	17.	STAP dy Düre 03:51
	18.	Kom Så - Kefir 03:13
	19.	Godt at bide i Sit Banan Crew 10:02
	20.	Same as (track 02) 05:03
	21.	ind Kommer: Nynne 04:05
	22.	? 00:04
	23.	09 02:02
	24.	Lasserne Foot Foot 05:07
	25.	? 05:32
	26.	Indsø 09:53
	27.	Ginnungagab 10:24
	28.	ring 02:34

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# The Pruttipal Index

What is - or rather: what could be - a "Pruttipal Index"? In books, libraries and databases, an index is usually a concise overview or inventory. It suggests that this album could be a mini-encyclopedia of the work of its makers. In economics, indexes are measurements of the current state of an economy; which, in the case of this album, could be a vitality metrics of the Goodiepal & Pals/GP&PLS/BananSkole collective that produced it. In semiotics, an index is a sign that functions as a trace (like smoke as an index of fire). Because of their technology, vinyl records are indexical (with their grooves being indexes of sound waves), but in addition, this album could also be seen as a series of sonic traces, or footprints, left by the various activities of GP&PLS and Pruttipal over the eight years of their collective existence.

On this album, these traces can be heard literally: in references to the collective's anti-racist refugee activism on the borders of the European Union and activist dance moves (from which many of the melodies on this album have been taken), their open and non-hierarchical school BananSkole, their lived friction with the institutional art system (which escalated during their residency at Copenhagen's contemporary art institute Den Frie), as sometimes casual field and home recordings, and sometimes as highly produced studio recordings, featuring the voices of many of the collective's members, including the children.

Everyday life, creative and social practice, learning and experimentation are constantly interwoven in these recordings. This is reminiscent of other experimental living, learning and music-making communities since the early 1970s, such as the French experimental ICEM/Freinet schools.^[Whose recordings have recently been re-released by GP&PLS's collaborators Woodstone Kugelblitz.]

While the solo artist also known as Goodiepal can still be heard on this album - in spoken tracks and what sounds like half-improvised electronic pieces -, s/he has become gradually disguised and dissolved. The "Pruttipal Index" is thus a record of their latest self-reinvention, as they have been reinventing themselves periodically since the 1990s, including their latest identity Pruttipal, taken from the Danish word "prut" meaning "fart". Pruttipal may have become a boring old fart, or the fart may be a joke on the perceived noises of experimental music or the seeming casualness of the recordings.

There is, audibly, an eclectic stylistic mix of theater, group improvisation, choirs, folk music and children's songs, campy-ironic modular synthesizer electronics, highly-produced art rock and no wave jazz, heavy metal, techno, punk and catchy Scandinavian dance pop tunes interspersed with mock-conspiracy podcasting. Much of it could be called functional music derived from collective social performances to be reused for new collective social performances.

The claim that "it doesn't matter what the music sounds like [...] but how it is distributed" ("Fap Brev Til: Keith Fullerton BS-OS") could be the crypto-motto of this album - if one understands "distribution" in the broadest possible sense.

- Florian Cramer

credits

released March 20, 2023

Artwork By – Koes Siep, Mad Professor, PerspektivBanden, Sofus Forsberg
Computer, Lute, Artwork By – (((Pruttipal)))
Mastered By – Die Große Hilfe Der Bananenschule Für Jakob S. Boeskov
Music By – Bananskolen
Project Manager – Nis Bysted

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Some copies come with a full breakdown of all DJ Audio Svar's available at UBUWEB, & some comes with a full breakdown of all SNAPPIDAGG's. Inside of cover is a modified picture of a Sofus Forsberg record, as well as a Mad Professor record.

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