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Hearpen Music





Hearpen Music grew out of Hearpen Records. At first it was only publisher to David Thomas songs written for non-Pere Ubu projects. Over the years, its role expanded. Today it manages Ubu Projex web domains / email. It operates the Pere Ubu Bandcamp site and releases and the DPK-TV livestreaming projects.

Address: 568 Boughner Hill Road, Utica PA 16362
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The Story of Hearpen Records

David Thomas made Hearpen Records in 1975 to put out Pere Ubu records. The name derives from an anglo-saxon word for harp. The 'p' is a transliteration of the Anglo-Saxon thorn, a character that was pronounced th . HEARTHAN (pronounced hay-are-than, rhymes with van) gradually gave way to HEARPEN (pronounced hay-are-pen) as the label's name. The logo got designed on a day it was HEARTHAN. A rule evolved that written the name is Hearpen, while integrated into a design, it becomes Hearthan. Hearpen is the favored pronunciation in all cases. Confusion was the foundation on which the business grew.

On December 11 2007, hearpen.com went online. It was a web site dedicated to sales of high quality audio downloads from Pere Ubu, David Thomas, Rocket From The Tombs, 15-60-75 and related bands. The site has been closed. Only hard goods releases are listed below.

The Hearpen Records Catalog

  • HR 101 30 Seconds Over Tokyo b/w Heart of Darkness, Pere Ubu, 1976.
  • HR 102 Final Solution b/w Cloud 149, Pere Ubu, 1976.
  • HR 103 Street Waves b/w My Dark Ages
    HR 104 The Modern Dance b/w Heaven, Pere Ubu, 1977.
  • HR 105 Shirley b/w She Smiled Wild, Mirrors, 1977.
    Side 1, written by Crook-Klimek, recorded at Owl Studio, June 1975 by Jaime Klimek, Paul Marotta, Jim Crook, Michael Weldon and Jim Jones. Side 2, written by Klimek, recorded in the basement, August 1975 by Klimek, Crook, Weldon and Jones. Songs copyrighted Mirror Music. Sleeve photos by Joyce Faust and Jill Marotta. Sleeve design by Michael Weldon.
  • HR 106 Jeffrey I Hear U (5:44) b/w The Elephant Man (5:58), The Girls, 1979
    Produced by David Thomas. Recorded at Suma, February 10 1979. Engineered by Ken and Paul Hamann. Songs written by Dagley-Hild-Amos-Condo and copyright Holy Shroud. Sleeve design by Jim Harkey, Mark Dagley and Daved Hild. Pressed at 33 1/3 rpm.
  • HR 107 You're Gonna Miss Me b/w Hand Piece, Pressler-Morgan, 1979.
  • HR 108 Here In The Life (3:36) b/w (It's In) Imagination (4:41, 15-60-75,1979.
  • HR 109 Allocated to the T/K box set reissue of the Pere Ubu 45s.
  • HR 110 Monster, David Thomas, 1997. (box set)
  • HR 111 Bay City, David Thomas and foreigners, 2000.
  • HR 112 Jimmy Bell's Still In Town, 15-60-75, 2000.
  • HR 113 The Shape of Things, Pere Ubu, 2000.
  • HR 114 Surf's Up!, David Thomas and two pale boys, 2001.
  • HR 115The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs, Rocket From The Tombs, 2002.
  • HR 116 Rocket Redux, Rocket From The Tombs, 2004.
  • HR 117 One Man Drives While The Other Man Screams, Pere Ubu, 2004.
  • HR 118 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest, David Thomas and two pale boys, 2004.
  • HR 119 Why I Hate Women, Pere Ubu, 2006.
  • HR 120 Why I Remix Women, Pere Ubu, 2006.
  • HR 143 The Inward City, 15-60-75, 2009. Produced by David Thomas.