The Quiet Album

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1990 piece by Albert Oehlen, Mayo Thompson, and Werner Büttner.

Sources

PopAlphabet May 1995

• Krayola discography lists "The Quiet Album (Leiterwagen)"

White Rose discography:

• print? (unknown german label) 1989? "described by thompson as a picture of the band, their faces pressed to a car window, printed onto parachute silk. there was no album per se." [puncture number 33, summer 1995]

2004 Drag City biography:

• In 1991 the single “The Red Crayolas on Forty-five” b/w “Your Body is Hot” and The Quiet Album were released on Oehlen’s Leiterwagen Records
• The Quiet Album comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of Oehlen, Büttner and Thompson life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles “White Album,” and sold out immediately.

The Wire 2005:

• ...from the beatbox and Euro-pop of 1989's Malefactor, Ade, the roaring silence of 1991's The Quiet Album (a play on the monochrome stylings of The Beatles' White Album)...

Whitney Biennial Index 2012:

• listed, description not accessible

Image gallery

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  1989 Albert Oehlen print with the same photo