The project was released by the label Second Language and the compilation came in a deluxe, silver foil blocked jewel box with magnifying glass. The cover design was made by the Irish artist Eva Rothschild.

In the press release from Second Language the project is described like this:

“A pan-global retinue of left-of-centre artists, it’s as conceptually sharp as it is consistently intriguing on the ear and offers a litany of diverting vignettes that run the gamut of ‘post-classical’ soundscapes, electronic sound designs, miniature pop songs, folk reveries, guitar soli and several stations in between. Minute Papillon is the kind of inscrutable cause célèbre album that no switched on collector of contemporary music should be without. Boasting contributions from the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, North America and Japan, the album sustains a rigorous ‘all killer no filler’ regimen over 60 tracks, which is no mean curatorial achievement.“

Contributors: Martin Hall, Gareth S. Brown, Cédric Pin, ( r ), Pete Astor, Franck Alba, Hannah Peel, Opiate, Wixel, Jannick Schou, Xela, Dollboy, Ellis Island Sound, Jenny Brand, James Brewster , Jasper TX, sanso-xtro , Roll the Dice, Plinth, Ensemble, Directorsound, Textile Ranch, The Home Current , Darren Hayman, Heather Woods Broderick, Fieldhead, Olivier Namblard, M. Ostermeier, Felix Kubin, ISAN, Scanner, Machinefabriek, Gareth Dickson, Ark of Noise, Relmic Statute, micro boredom, Ringinglow, Offthesky, Lene Charlotte Holm, brave timbers, Richard Moult, Tyneham House, Clem Leek, Isnaj Dui, Fureasteen, Junkboy, Rickard Jäverling, Primitive Northerner, Seasons (pre-din), Danny Norbury, Winter Cabin , d_rradio, Hybernation, Will Long, The Boats, Dustin O’Halloran, 30Km Inland, Dirk Markham, Message to Bears and P. Jørgensen.

Transgender icon Sandra Day was born in 1939 and originally named Alexander Brask Sørensen. In 1969 she changed her male name to Sandra, underwent surgery for an artificial bosom and lived a life as a transsexual from then on. She was a frontrunner in the Danish gay movement and acted as both stripper and dominatrix as well as singer and actor in the company of famous actors such as Ove Sprogøe and Bodil Kjer. Her life and livelihood are described in Thomas Aagard Skovman’s book From Peasant Queen to Whip Queen (2007).

On the 12^th of January 2011 Sandra Day released her debut album Sing – Don’t Cry. The release was set for the day that should have been her 72^nd birthday, but in mid-December 2010 she suffered a massive brain haemorrhage and died on the 15^th.

Sandra Day was a close friend of Marquis Marcel de Sade with whom she toured legendary nightclubs such as Madame Arthur throughout the 1970’s and 80’s. They appeared together as guests in Martin Hall’s 2010 television show Salon Midwelt from where the photo is taken.

Martin Hall plays Farfisa organ on the song “Hurt”. The album is recorded in close collaboration with guitarist, producer and songwriter Johnny Stage, who among other things has been a member of the Danish rock group Sort Sol.

The original Pesteg Dred album Years of Struggle against the Lies, the Stupidity and the Cowardice was recorded by an 18-year-old Hall with vocalist Inge Shannon and guitarist/noisemaker Per Hendrichsen (later Under For) in December 1981. The album stayed unreleased until the summer of 1985 where it featured as a bonus cassette tape with the Danish art magazine Atlas.

In comparison to Pesteg Dred the later SS-Say project (and particularly the group’s 12″ single Fusion) received much more attention. The first constellation of the band made its debut at William S. Burroughs’ legendary visit in Denmark in October 1983 and ever since the reputation of the group has grown, both in Europe and in the United States – apparently because a French DJ kept playing the Fusion tracks at the New York club The Batcave.

Apart from the Scandinavian re-release in September 2010 the Pesteg Dred album was also released in America in a limited vinyl edition by the San Francisco based label Dark Entries (late October 2010). This edition received an abundance of international praise … such as when the illustrious English music magazine The Wire wrote the following about the record in their January 2011 issue (#323):

”Years of Struggle is a hitherto rarely heard album that exemplified the black-hole nihilism and hostile theatrics found in the abstractionist fractions of the post-punk movement. After this sole Pesteg Dred recording Hall formed a number of darkwave projects in Denmark with considerable aplomb, but the innovation coupled with the claustrophobia of Years of Struggle is so strong that I have to wonder where Pesteg Dred might have gone if they had had the opportunity back in the day.“

• Pesteg Dred at Soundcloud
• American Martin Hall interview about Pesteg Dred (2010)
• The original Pesteg Dred cassette (1985)
• The original SS-Say 12” (1985)