{"product_id":"elijah-minnelli-clams-as-a-main-meal","title":"Elijah Minnelli - Clams As A Main Meal","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\" Vinyl LP w\/ Screen Printed Sleeve\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: EM05\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 21 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Dub \/ Folk \/ Cumbia \/ Experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepress: 29 May 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ea1. Canaan Land feat. Dennis Bovell\u003cbr\u003ea2. Sumptuous Promise\u003cbr\u003ea3. Watercraft Apologist\u003cbr\u003eb1. Donna Donna (Chwerthin) feat. Carwyn Ellis\u003cbr\u003eb2. Calopify Now!\u003cbr\u003eb3. Bomb The Green Belt\u003cbr\u003eb4. Long Conifer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven in these most turbulent of times, dub musician and fatigued onlooker Elijah Minnelli remains an inexplicable stalwart on the lower rungs of the Breadminster County Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis latest record ‘Clams As A Main Meal’ continues his astute siphoning of council funds, this time with help from the Breadminster Board of Abstinence. As a further mark of respect, the original head of the Board, Dr. K'houldoux, graces the cover art in his infamous ‘Looming Moon of Desire’ guise.*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs fine a backdrop as any for Minneli’s off-brand dub experiments, and ‘Clams...’ is the truest representation of his varied wheelhouse yet...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe find vocal appearances from dub goliath Dennis Bovell and Welsh-language singer Carwyn Ellis. A pair of tracks which build on 2024’s acclaimed ‘Perpetual Musket’, a collection of folk songs reworked alongside reggae vocalists, released by FatCat Records. It garnered glowing reviews, with nods from The Guardian and The Quietus concluding with prominent appearances on their respective yearly round-up lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, the album finds Minnelli in a more experimental mode, all wheezing contraptions and cockeyed bass, creaking with the weight of creation, a satisfying tactility laid seam-side up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as ‘Perpetual Musket’, the new album follows years of sold out 7\" singles, handmade and self-released. Online, the tracks have amassed global streams numbering in the millions. His tracks have found play across an eclectic range of radio mixes and dance floors, most notably the likes of Andrew Weatherall, Batu, Optimo and Zakia Sewell (BBC6Music).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is perhaps worth mentioning that this everbuilding interest in his work is at great odds with the growing suspicions amongst his fellow townsfolk, who see his Breadminster County Council Music Initiative as nothing more than an empty cash-grab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther Reading on the Breadminster Board of Abstinence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 70s, Breadminster was awash with the last vestiges of the hippy era. Though the flared silhouette of the lower leg remained, the utopian ideals that had once flowed merrily around the youth's shaded ankles had begun to wane. LSD and free love had led to a sharp spike in population and a generation of children raised by air-headed psychonauts unprepared for the bleary-eyed strictures of parenthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAware of the crisis, the County Council entrusted Dr. Paulinque K'houldoux to spearhead a pushback, and it was his pro-abstinence movement - a mixture of education initiatives and radical renutrition campaigns - that came to impact Breadminster's census deep into the new millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a pseudo-archipelago Breadminster has fundamentally limited resources, however deep-seated ties to distant coastal villages meant that oysters were a regular part of the local diet. K'houldoux pinpointed this as a factor in the town's overpopulation, and believed that simply replacing these with clams (a “lesser mollusk”) would help lower the erotic urges of the people. It was his “anti-aphrodesia” movement that first championed the idea of “Clams As A Main Meal,” and the slogan “Consider Abstinence” carried the message yet further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Breadminster Board of Abstinence soon became involved in all cultural happenings in the area, with K'houldoux MCing at prominent festivals and performances, sometimes dressed as the “Looming Moon of Desire” - an idea of his relating to the tide, seafood, menstrual cycles, and his privately held celestial predilections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was in 1981 that it was revealed Dr. K'houldoux had never fully qualified as a doctor and was seeking exile in Breadminster due to a series of botched bracelet heists in which he had previously been involved. K'houldoux was subsequently extradited to Basingstoke, where he served 3 of a 12-year sentence, owing to the lunar-oriented prisoner health campaigns he helped implement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has been a strange twist of bureaucratic fate that the Breadminster Board of Abstinence has never stopped receiving public funding, despite its lack of clear utility. And while its roots are tied to a rose-tinted past, the Board continues to sponsor cultural events and projects to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extract from: Eugeniq Schooner's article in Sydney Parishioner: “Clams, Breadminster and Countercultural Abstinence Trends” (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breadminster County Council","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529040781468,"sku":"EM05","price":27.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/unnamed_12_4156dee1-d5f9-4b2f-99c4-2d2cc62c1763.jpg?v=1762521254","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/elijah-minnelli-clams-as-a-main-meal","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}