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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re:  Dirge Music
Message-ID: <299@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 13:36:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 13:36:25 1985
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In article <> hall@beta.DEC (DAN HALL   DTN 264-5879) writes:
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>Dalis Car is vocalist Peter Murphy from Bauhaus and bassist Mick Karn
>from Japan.  Karn plays most of the instruments on their debut album 
>"The Waking Hour".  I don't think it sounds like Bauhaus or Japan.
>Listen to Karn's new album "Titles":  it sounds like that without
>Murphy's vocals.  Also ex-Japan members Steve Jansen and Richard 
>Barbieri play on "Titles", but it still doesn't sound like Japan
>without David Sylvian's vocals.  

Let's get more specific here. Mick Karn's solo album is composed of
one side of pretty Japan-esque sounding stuff (that is, lot of woody
and bell-like timbres from the Prophet over an open rhythmic vamp that
winds up as a four against some ethnic sounding syncopation) with Karn's
fretless bass mixed forward. It's pretty nice for what it is: fourth-wave
ethno pop in search of a singer. The second side is the stuff that might
remind you the Peter Murphy stuff-longer, dronier pieces of Bauhausish
stuff. Unfortunately for Karn's solo album, the vocalists (and Karn does
a bit of it himself) are miserable-a kind of reedy whine that only works
on the Near-Eastern flavoured cover of that old religious chestnut "Savior,
are you with me?" Dan's right though-the thing that really marks Dali's car is
Peter's voice, in the same sense that Sylvian's voice marks the Japan
stuff. Mick Karn has a single out with Midge Ure of Ultravox as well.

I picked up the Karn in the cutout bin, so keep thine eyes peeled. While
you're at it, check out David Sylvian's solo "Brilliant Trees" w/Jon Hassel
and Riuchi Sakamoto and Holger Czukay.
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