Going to the City of Brotherly Love

 

Wednesday I am driving to Fishtown in Philadelphia to see the Legendary Pink Dots at Kung Fu Necktie. Might miss a few days postings, but will be back to NOVember NOVelties as soon as I recover. Until then, here's this... 

 

Zone was formed in 1988 by the Welsh duo Andrew Cadmore & Chris Brandrick. Their eclectic musical influences range from the industrial sounds of Throbbing Gristle, the ambient electronics of Brian Eno & early Tangerine Dream, to the experimental & avant-garde of Karlheinz Stockhausuen, Fred Frith (Henry Cow & Art Bears), Faust, & Can.

Released as the initial Zone offering, Sword of the Sun is more accurately a collection of pieces created separately by Swansea's Andrew Cadmore & Chris Brandrick prior to their collaboration as Zone. Protoplasmic electro-organic/orgonic ambience, sublimated tape-looped rhythms, & traces of ethnomusical tinkering all come together for this set of songs.

Eschewing convention & compromise, always seductive & compassionate, Zone's isolated deceptively primitive approach to recording music has in itself become the third mind within Zone, where the whole is far more than the sum of the parts. 

 

Zone - Sword of the Sun, Potentia Records Zone CD001, 1992.
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Stopping the World
The Wheel of Light
     a. Three Mile Island
     b. The Exterminating Angel
     c.  Dancer Beneath the Sky
     d.  Our Lady of Darkness
The Hospital Garden
Lost in a State of Grace
Sword of the Sun
Zone
The Prophet
To the Centre of the Cyclone
Caught in the Breath of Angels
Stolen Lightning
Sunbathing
The Crystal Opening

Enjoy,
NØ