Choir Invisible tried to revive '60s psychedelia before bands such as R.E.M. and The Church made it fashionable and marketable. Choir Invisible was considered a part of the Paisley Underground, a short-lived movement resurrecting '60s psychedelic rock that included The Dream Syndicate and The Rain Parade. Featuring Thomas Sinclair (guitar, vocals), Scott Laskin (bass, vocals), Danny Benair (drums), Eric Carter (synthesizers, piano), and John Curry (vocals), Choir Invisible released one album, 1981's 'Choir Invisible', and one EP, 1984's 'Sea to Shining Sea', both of which were dominated by ethereal guitars, lush synths, vague lyrics, and British-style vocals. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
Bloodsport were a lesser-known part of Chicago's post-hardcore punk scene of the '80s, which produced bands like Naked Raygun, The Effigies, and Big Black. Following the demise of his first band Strike Under, guitarist Chris Bjorklund got together with vocalist Dave Bergeron, bassist Tom Woods, and drummer Joe Haggerty (Haggerty's brother John played guitar in Naked Raygun). Drawing from a musical palette similar to that of The Effigies (The Ruts, Killing Joke, The Stranglers, Minor Threat, etc.), Bloodsport issued their only album, 'I Am the Game', on the prominent indie label Homestead in 1985. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
More modestly built than Fushitsusha, Aihiyō is an unexpected project that is less extreme, more accessible and more relaxed than usual. Keiji Haino humorously experiments with his qualities as a bizarre performer, demonstrating a disconcerting ability to approach different styles without distorting his habitual drumming. His face is eclectic, with a sarcastic smile. Beyond simple parody, far from fearing to attack the timeless, the Japanese performer advances a register more offbeat than experimental. Then, thrown like a discobole, he sends his wafer in pursuit of various quasi-sanctuarized genres in order to hit them with full force: pop, post-punk and blues, everything goes through the mill. If "My Darling Max" retains the structure of a classic FM hit of less than three minutes, Keiji Haino cheerfully revises and bones the delta blues with "Melancholy Wish", dynamite the clean rock and its jerky riffs with "Why the Two of Us Here", but don't forget to confirm his taste for softer, calmer -and longer- tracks with the superb "Red Shoes" or "Between Night and Morning". Humor and beauty coexist with "I Love You to Your Bones", a screaming no wave song that is unheard of in the good sense of the word. 'Aihiyo' is a good starting point to discover Keiji Haino. A visit card that forces the features without sacrificing the noisy episodes necessary for the brilliance of the man. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label:
Tokuma Japan Communications – TKCF-77022, J-Factory – TKCF-77022
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Japan
Released:
24 Jun 1998
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Electric Blues, Avantgarde, Noise Rock, Experimental Rock
64 Spiders was a proto-grunge band from Seattle formed in 1984 and disbanded in 1987. Members were Brother James Burdyshaw (vocals, guitar, later Cat Butt, Sinister Six, The Bare-Ass Minimums, Yummy), Joe Ross (vocals, bass, ex The Green Pajamas, later Capping Day, Joe Ross & The Bird Watchers, Yummy), Norman Scott McCollum (drums, later Capping Day, Gruntruck, Skin Yard, Softy). Other members were Brian Wright (drums, 1984), Ross Cottrell (bass, 1984-85), Dave Lee (vocals, 1985-86) and Eric Lee Walker (drums, 1985-86). They released one self-titled cassette on Endgame Records in 1987 and one 7’’ (‘Potty Swat’) in 1989 on the garage punk label Regal Select Records.
The kind of album you only read about. This album is a beautiful piece of Art. It has a maroon sleeve, front back and gatefold, with the letters Z O O embossed in gold, Zoo being the Liverpool label it was put out on by Bill Drummond, who also ran the Zoo Club where Virginia Astley and her Ravishing Beauties made their live debut in the closing weeks of 1981.
Inside we're informed that the music had been taken from a play "To The Shores Of Lake Placid" which ran from mid 1978 to February 1981 with "all titles performed by the Original Cast".
Whatever, the recordings were all made in studios and full details are given for the items by Big In Japan, and this is followed by Drummond's own band Those Naughty Lumps with "Iggy Pop's Jacket", issued as a single in January 1979.
Then The Teardrop Explodes with the original version of "When I Dream", a couple of tracks by Echo & the Bunnymen and to close side I a couple of real gems in Lori & the Chameleons' "Lonely Spy" and The Turquoise Swimming Pool's "The Wind", previously unreleased and featuring Troy Tate, who was instrumental in suggesting the Zoo Club to the Ravishing Beauties a few months later. There's another track on side 2 by the same act, called "Burst Balloons". Along with more Teardrop Explodes, Big In Japan and Echo & the Bunnymen is a track by Dalek I Love You, licensed from the Back Door label. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label:
Zoo Records – ZOO 4, Zoo Records – ZOO FOUR
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:
UK
Released:
07 Feb 1982
Style:
New Wave, Pop Rock, Synth-pop, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Neo-Psychedelia, Punk
Tracklist:
A1 – Big In Japan Society For Cutting Up Men
A2 – Those Naughty Lumps Iggy Pop's Jacket
A3 – The Teardrop Explodes When I Dream
A4 – Echo & The Bunnymen Pictures On My Wall
A5 – Echo & The Bunnymen Read It In Books
A6 – Lori And The Chameleons Lonely Spy
A7 – The Turquoise Swimming Pools The Winds
B1 – Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky's Lullaby
B2 – Dalek (I Love You) A Suicide
B3 – The Turquoise Swimming Pools Burst Balloons
B4 – Lori & The Chameleons Touch (Version/Excerpt)
B5 – The Teardrop Explodes Camera, Camera
B6 – Big In Japan Suicide A Go Go
B7 – Echo & The Bunnymen Villiers Terrace
B8 – The Teardrop Explodes Take A Chance
Notes:
The music on this record has been taken from the play 'To The Shores Of Lake Placid', which ran from August 24 1978 to February 21 1981. The play is the first in a trilogy, the second of which, as yet untitled, began on November 10 1981 at 'Club Zoo', 'The Pyramid', Liverpool, and will close at 'Erics', Liverpool on November 15 1983.
All titles are performed by the original cast.
Track A1 - previously unreleased. Recorded T.W. Studios October 1977. Licensed from Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Track A2 - previously released as single (Zoo Cage 002) January 1979. Recorded Open Eye Studios, Liverpool.
Track A3 - the original version, taken from the never released album 'Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes' (Zoo 1). Recorded Rockfield Studios March 1980.
Track A4 - original version featuring Echo, released as single (Zoo Cage 004) March 1979. Recorded August Studios, Liverpool March 1979.
Track A5 - b-side of Track A4, not the version on American copies of 'Crocodiles' or Korova Special Offer Version.
Track A6 - originally released by Zoo Records through Korova Records. Recorded Rockfield Studios January 1980.
Track A7 - previously unreleased. Recorded Rockfield Studios February 1981.
Track B1 - from the forthcoming album 'The Fuel Of The Big Machine', licensed from 'Radio Peeking Duck'.
Track B2 - originally released on Back Door. Recorded Rockfield Studios early 1979.
Track B3 - previously unreleased. Recorded Rockfield Studios February 1981.
Track B4 - Brief remix of 'hit' single (Zoo CAGE 006) previously unreleased. Not credited on the package.
Track B5 - previously released as b-side of 'Sleeping Gas' (Zoo Cage 003). Recorded Open Eye Studios, Liverpool November 1978.
Track B6 - previously released on 'From Y To Z And Never Again' (Zoo Cage 001). Licensed from Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Track B7 - recorded for John Peel Session May 1979. With kind permission of the BBC.
Track B8 - previously unreleased. Recorded Cargo, Rochdale November 1979.
Zona Industriale was a post-industrial music and power electronics duo from Cosenza formed in 1983 by Michele Pingitore and Pino Iannelli involving a compositional reassembly of sounds recorded from life, comprised of radio speeches interspersed with radio frequencies, recordings taken from everyday life such as hairdryers, train stations and crackling doors and wood, as well as samples taken from special effects discs, translating into music the sounds of routine and boredom of everyday life, and totally excluding the usual musical instruments. The sound of the group was initially very industrial and noisy and later became more evanescent and dilated, towards rarefied sounds with ambient implications providing more and more tempered scale instruments. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Label:
Discipline Produzioni – DP05
Format:
Cassette, Numbered
Country:
Italy
Released:
1987
Style:
Industrial
Tracklist:
A1 La Destruction 4:48
A2 Lo Specchio 3:44
A3 Metamorfosi (I & II) 2:02
A4 Les Silences Des La Voix 3:23
A5 Modern 1:38
A6 Interno 2:15
B1 Nichts 4:53
B2 Illatio: Introibo Ad Altare-Sanctus 7:21
B3 Excerpt From "Stalker" (A.Tarkovskij - 1979) 3:31
Gotta love the cute lyrics in The Work's "I Hate America". Tim Hodgkinson was and is a very serious man with strong convictions and an activist personality. The only problem with English people complaining (or whining as it is in most cases) about America is that the two countries are equally despicable in most of the same ways. The music is raw and almost awesome on this three song platter, one of the first statements by this important avant-rock group led by the freshly de-bovinated Hodgkinson. The harsh, distorted, urgent sound aligns it with the No Wave scene of the same time. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label:
Woof Records – WOOF 002
Format:
Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM, Clear Vinyl
Country:
UK
Released:
1981
Style:
Art Rock, Lo-Fi, Avantgarde, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, No Wave, Zolo
Diving into the past of rock music is like submerging into the ocean –the deeper you dive the rarer pearls you may come up with. And 'From the Mouth of No King' is one of the rarest. The band decided to call themselves V-Sor, X because they wanted their name being bizarre and absolutely indecipherable. And so it is with their music –it is weird and absolutely keeping itself for itself except probably for some occasional music pearl divers too. All the songs here are different but every one of them is exceptional and beautiful and though many of them are minimalistic the impression made by the entire album is maximally rich. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Uncommunity formed as a three piece in spring of 1983. They initially played spontaneous music, but later made power electronics and noise music. The only member who could play a little was Tim Gane, who went on to rock stardom. Other members of the group included Joe Manning, Vince Adams, Dave Brown and someone called Smut. The group were interested in musical alchemy, as they put it, and ran the Black Dwarf label. [SOURCE: TAPE MAG]
Label:
Black Dwarf – bdbg1, Cause For Concern – none
Toto Lotto were a weird avantgardistic, noisy post-punk band from Frankfurt that released this 7'' in 1980. The slow, brooding, edgy "White Walls" strongly reminds of Pere Ubu. "Cut a Slice" is some weird ska-punk, and "Toto Lotto" is a great proto-hardcore smash in your face. Definitively an interesting and varied single. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]
Label:
Not On Label – TL-01
Format:
Vinyl, 7"
Country:
Germany
Released:
May 1980
Style:
New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Art Punk, No Wave
Shoc Corridor was an electronic band formed in West London in the early 1980s by Paul O'Carroll, Andy Garnham, Chris Davis and Nogi Prass. After the release of the 'Blind Sign' EP and 'Experiments In Incest' LP on Shout Records, Davis and Prass left and were replaced by Paul Humphries and Sarah Panton. The band in it's new form released 'Train Of Events' (LP), 'Holding Treasure' (7") and 'Fever' (EP) on Shout/Quiet Records and disbanded in 1984 following the suicide of Humphries. [SOURCE: LAST.FM]
Rote Kapelle were a post-punk/indie pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active during the 1980s. Its band members included musicians who were also members of Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes and The Shop Assistants. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Andrew Tully (vocals) and Marguerite Vasquez-Ponte (vocals), both of whom would also form Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, with Chris Henman (guitar), Ian Binns (keyboards, also a member of The Stayrcase), Malcolm Kergan (bass, also a member of The Thanes), and Jonathan Muir (drums). The band's debut release was 'The Big Smell Dinosaur' EP in late 1985, after which they were signed by Marc Riley's In-Tape label. Tully described the band's sound in 1987 as a blend of noisy post-punk and anorak pop. Vasquez-Ponte was also a member of a third band, The Fizzbombs, alongside the Desperadoes' Angus McPake and The Shop Assistants' former drummer Ann Donald. They released two further singles and two more EP's, one of which featured tracks from their Peel Session, before splitting when Vasquez-Ponte joined the re-formed Shop Assistants. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
