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Eyeless In Gaza (band)
Eyeless In Gaza are an English musical duo of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. They have described their music as "veer ngcrazily from filmic ambiance to rock and pop, industrial funk to avant-folk styles." Formed in 1980, the group went into hiatus in 1987, re-emerging in 1993. History Formation (1979–1980) Becker, a laboratory technician, had played in a covers band before buying and experimenting with a Wasp synthesizer (he released a solo cassette-album in June 1980 and a second a year later). Bates, a hospital worker, had previously been in a very early lineup of the unclassifiable Coventry-based band Reluctant Stereotypes, and also released a cassette of experimental electronic music in 1979.Gimarc, p. 278, 515 Shortly afterwards they met (after having both been turned down for membership in Nuneaton's Bron Area) and together they formed Eyeless In Gaza, both contributing vocals and several instruments.Henderson The band name is a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuneaton
Nuneaton ( ) is a market town in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth in northern Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire and West Midlands County.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : Nuneaton's population at the 2021 census was 94,634, an increase from 86,552 at the 2011 census making it the largest town in Warwickshire. The author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel '' Scenes of Clerical Life'' (1858) depicts Nuneaton. There is a hospital named after her, The George Eliot Hospital. There is also a statue of George Eliot in the town centre. History Early history Nuneaton was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement known as 'Etone' or 'Eaton', which translates literally as 'settlement by water', referring to the River Anker. 'Etone' was listed in the Domesday Book as a small farming settlement with a population of ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine '' Oxford Poetry'', before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sinatras
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Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. '' Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aztec Camera
Aztec Camera were a Scottish pop/ new wave band founded by Roddy Frame, the group's singer, songwriter, and only consistent member. Formed in 1980, Aztec Camera released a total of six studio albums: '' High Land, Hard Rain'' (1983), '' Knife'' (1984), '' Love'' (1987), ''Stray'' (1990), '' Dreamland'' (1993), and '' Frestonia'' (1995). The band garnered popular success for the songs " Oblivious", " Somewhere in My Heart", and " Good Morning Britain" (a duet with former Clash guitarist Mick Jones). History Early years Aztec Camera was formed in East Kilbride in 1980 by Roddy Frame and drummer David Mulholland after they had left the punk-inspired band Neutral Blue. Aztec Camera first appeared on a Glasgow cassette-only compilation of local unsigned bands on the Pungent Records label, affiliated with the ''Fumes'' fanzine run by Danny Easson and John Gilhooly. Postcard Records The band's first United Kingdom (UK) single release was sold in a 7" format by Postcard Record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rust Red September
''Rust Red September'' is the fifth album by English band Eyeless in Gaza, released in 1983 by record label Cherry Red. This was the first recording where Eyeless In Gaza employed overdubs, as all their previous releases were recorded in one take straight to tape. Track listing Reception '' Sounds'' wrote "With '''Rust Red September''', Eyeless in Gaza have stumbled over a devastatingly simple truth, but haven't yet learnt how to harness it for their best purposes. Still, it makes (occasionally) great listening until they come up with their real masterpiece." In an AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the dat ... review Ned Raggett wrote: "Rust Red September finds the group further moving away from the brusquer hooks of its earliest days to a calmer reflective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drumming The Beating Heart
''Drumming the Beating Heart'' is the fourth album by English band Eyeless in Gaza, released in 1982 by record label Cherry Red. Content Regarding the album's style, AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the dat ... wrote that the album "finds the Nuneaton duo fashioning their stock sonic components into more immediately accessible, conventional song structures, albeit at the avant end of the pop spectrum". Reception '' NME'' called it "so much better than their previous sluggish experiments not because it’s more “commercial”, but because the endeavour required to redesign their form clarifies and strengthens it." Track listing All tracks composed by Martyn Bates and Peter Becker #"Transience Blues" #"Ill-Wind Blows" #"One By One" #"Picture the Day" #"Drea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pale Hands I Loved So Well
''Pale Hands I Loved So Well'' is the third album by English band Eyeless in Gaza, released in 1982 by record label Uniton. Reception AllMusic called it "arguably the highlight of the band's earliest days" and "a delicate, focused, and impassioned collection that sounds like little else released in the English-speaking world in 1981." An unfavourable review came from ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...'', which described it as "fairly dissolute – a meandering, largely improvisational attempt to make music out of aimless doodles". Track listing All tracks composed by Martyn Bates and Peter Becker #"Tall and White Nettles" #"Warm Breath, Soft and Slow" #"Blue Distance" #"Sheer Cliffs" #"Falling Leaf/Fading Flower, Goodbye to Summer" #"Lies of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught In Flux
''Caught in Flux'' is the second album by English band Eyeless in Gaza, recorded in February, 1981, and released in September, 1981 by record label Cherry Red. It was recorded in one take with no overdubs at Woodbine Recording Studios Leamington Spa UK. The Album included a five song EP called "The Eyes of Beautiful Losers". Track listing All tracks written by Eyeless in Gaza (Martyn Bates & Peter Becker) Critical reception In a positive review in ''New Musical Express'', Mick Duffy described ''Caught In Flux'' as a progress from Eyeless in Gaza's debut album: "‘Caught In Flux’ is most specifically an introspective LP, a thoughtful compilation of new songs and sound patterns, skilfully patched together and performed, It’s a meditative music for active minds, an exciting vision of a brave new whirl." Personnel * Martyn Bates - Lead Vocals, Fender Telecaster Guitar, Organ * Peter Becker - Hofner 500/1 Bass, Electronic Dream Plant Electronic Dream Plant (EDP) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photographs As Memories
''Photographs as Memories'' is the debut studio album by English band Eyeless in Gaza. It was released on 30 January 1981, through record label Cherry Red. Track listing Reception ''Photograps as Memories'' received mixed reviews on its release, from “An interesting, invigorating listen” (''Melody Maker'') to “Stinkingly awful” (''Record Mirror''). Des Moines in '' Sounds'' noted "a lot of flaws" and Martyn Bates' "extremely challenging voice", but acknowledged that "'From A to B’, ‘Speech Rapid Fire’ and ‘No Noise’ are three representations of how Becker (£200 Wasp synthesiser, voice, percussion, violin, stylophone, ‘treated tapes’) and Bates (voice, electric guitar, plastic organ, soprano sax) at full flow achieve their thoroughly magic melodies", and that "Becker’s uncanny flair for compelling succinct synthesiser hook lines is the conspicuous characteristic, but Bates’ imperiously evocative vocal is a factor just as crucial." While dismi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Inrockuptibles
''Les Inrockuptibles'' () is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. Now it is a monthly again, since 2021. In the beginning, rock music was the magazine's primary focus, though every issue included articles on other topics, generally with a left-wing approach. The magazine has produced several tribute records, including ''I'm Your Fan'' to Leonard Cohen in 1991, '' The Smiths is dead'' in 1996 and '' Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited'' in 2006. Since 1988 it has included CD compilations as part of individual issues. Guillaume B. Decherf, a music critic and journalist for the magazine, was killed during the November 2015 Paris attacks The November 2015 Paris attacks () were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 9:15p.m., three suicide bombers ... at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religion
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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