ab-cd.com  modern music & media

home : log in : your cart : check out : info : customer service : about ab-cd

quick artist search

more search options in Artist Title Label Description Genre on CD DVD HD-DVD Blu-Ray DVD Dual Disc SACD DVD Audio Vinyl

Eyeless In Gaza Song Of The Beautiful Wanton ..."Song of the Beautiful Wanton" constitutes the first full EYELESS IN GAZA release in five years. It continues their fascination for combining the worlds of improvisation and soundscape with the worlds of "SONG" - the psyche-folk axis prominent in several distinctive settings of songs collected by James Francis Child. Recorded in a variety of different locations, some chosen for their natural ambience and others for their "artificiality", "Song of the Beautiful Wanton" showcases EYELESS IN GAZA at their most melodic, mercurial and still as determinedly individualistic as ever. Since 1980, EYELESS IN GAZA have been producing a distinctively individual and original brand of post-punk innovation that easily eschews simplistic categorization. Their new music as featured on "Song of The Beautiful Wanton" has less of the bitterness but still the sweetness of their earlier albums such as "Drumming the Beating Heart", mixed together with the brooding creativity of the majority of their work. At times dazzlingly schizoid, EYELESS IN GAZA further peel back the layers of their own peculiar brand of avant-folk and atmospheric music producing vividly filmic soundscapes that make effective use of non-verbal vocalizations, acoustic instrumentation, clattering percussion and tape manipulation. As with previous works, rich vocal melodies are to the fore of the music and mix. Collectively, EYELESS IN GAZA have at various times collaborated with Mick Harris, Anne Clark, Orchis, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill, This Mortal Coil's Deirdrie Rutkowski and Simon Fisher-Turner amongst others. They also collaborated in 1999 with Anne Clark and Genesis P. Orridge for Bill Laswell's "Hashisheen - The End of Law" CD. "Song of The Beautiful Wanton" sees them returning to their true strength, operating solely in context of the original duo, uniquely working in pastures uncompromising but lyrical. Martyn Bates' serpentine, untrammeled vocals sail out over Peter Becker's deceptively primitive instrumental dexterity to create a wide-screen music that still manages to sound somehow idiosyncratically personal. It is music that strikes the listener alluringly - as both mystifyingly ancient and simultaneously modern. Format: CD Album   Label: Soleilmoon Catalog: SOL94CD Origin: USA Listed: 2000-03-02 Activity Status: Usually Available in 7 - 10 days   Price: $14.97   More titles from Eyeless In Gaza : Back From The Rains Caught In Flux / The Eyes Of Beautiful Losers Drumming The Beating Heart / Pale Hands I Loved No Noise: The Very Best Of No Noise: The Very Best Of Photographs As Memories Photographs As Memories Plague Of Years Rust Red September Rust Red September Saw You In Reminding Pictures (DVD) Sixth Sense-single Collection Song Of The Beautiful Wanton Streets I Ran (EP) (5 Tracks) Voice: The Best Of Eyeless In Gaza specials Gasman This One's For You Price: $11.32 More Info    Boris Pink Price: $10.32 More Info

browse ab-cd new this week featured new releases coming soon! re-issue hilites recent ab-cd featured SALE stuff! 2007 In Review recent features