Sort Of

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Sort Of
Studio album by Slapp Happy
Released	1972 (1972)
Recorded	May–June 1972
Studio	Wümme, Bremen, Germany
Genre	Avant-rock
Length	41:42
Label	Polydor
Producer	Uwe Nettelbeck
Slapp Happy chronology
Sort Of (1972) Slapp Happy (1974)
Singles from Sort Of
"Just a Conversation" b/w "Jumpin' Jonah" Released: 1972, Polydor Records

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Sort Of is the debut studio album by the avant-rock band Slapp Happy. It was recorded in Wümme, Bremen, Germany in May and June 1972 with Faust as their backing band, and released on LP by Polydor Records in 1972. In 1980 Recommended Records released a limited edition of Sort Of on LP, and the album was reissued on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with one bonus track.

Track listing

All titles written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore.

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Just a Conversation"	4:02
2.	"Paradise Express"	2:40
3.	"I Got Evil"	2:30
4.	"Little Girl's World"	3:25
5.	"Tutankhamun"	2:17
6.	"Mono Plane"	6:50

Side 2

No.	Title	Length
7.	"Blue Flower"	5:10
8.	"I'm All Alone"	2:30
9.	"Who's Gonna Help Me Now?"	2:25
10.	"Small Hands of Stone"	4:38
11.	"Sort Of"	2:15
12.	"Heading for Kyoto"	3:00

CD re-issue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Jumping Jonah"	3:03

Personnel

• Peter Blegvad – guitar, saxophone, vocals
• Dagmar Krause (credited as "Daggi") – vocals, tambourine, piano, woodblock
• Anthony Moore – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Gunther Wüsthoff – saxophone on "Paradise Express" and "I'm All Alone"
• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
• Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar

• Engineered by Kurt Graupner
• Album design and cover by David Larcher

Notes

• Gunther, Zappi and Jean recorded through courtesy of Faust

CD releases

Sort Of was released on CD by Blueprint Records in 1999 with an extra track (from the B-side of their single "Just a Conversation"):[2][3]

• "Jumpin' Jonah'" (Moore/Blegvad) – the CD was mastered from a vinyl copy as the master tapes had been lost

The same master was also issued in Japan with an additional 3" CD single:

• "Alcohol" (Blegvad)

References

1. Unterberger, Richie. "Sort of...Slapp Happy". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
2. "Discography S". The Canterbury Music Website. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
3. "Slapp Happy: Review". Air Structures. Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

External links

• Sort Of at Discogs (list of releases)
• Sort Of. at The Faust Pages
• Peter Blegvad Discography