Founded by The New Blockaders' Rupenus brothers, Bladder Flask's debut (and in fact only) LP, originally issued by Orgel Fesper Music in 1981, is one of the most eclectic albums of the post-Industrial era. It is both challenging and perplexing... So, put down your puny instruments of normality and breathe in the frenzied fungal spores of Bladder Flask!

The fact that Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound is a big fan of this album is testament to its greatness: "I love [the album]... what a great title, perhaps my favourite ever. I must have listened to the album so much in the '80s. I listened to it again recently and it was like welcoming an old friend".

Personnel: Richard Rupenus, Philip Rupenus, Sean Breadin, John Mylotte, and Nigel Jacklin - variously members of The New Blockaders, Nihilist Assault Group, Masstishaddhu, Metgumbnerbone, Venereum Arvum, Sedayne, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Alien Brains and more.

Recorded at Wrongrong Studio and Spectro Arts Workshop 1980 – 1981. Audio Restoration & Mastering: Colin Potter (NWW, Ora, Monos). 


"Very scrap merchant, very Dada… Comparisons could be made to NWW’s Merzbild Schwet: a mixture of Musique Concrete and instrumental collages, but more intense and compact than NWW. An extremely interesting album and very cleverly done, especially the editing of complex tape treatments" (Neumusik)