A more descriptive title would have been "Seven Panic Attacks," but even
a bland title isn't able to prevent the undeniably savage, pungent
impact of Seven Songs, a half-hour long album that plays out like a
soundtrack to being bounty hunted in an expansive jungle. Following
"Kundalini," a hectoring brain shake that hardly resembles the dormant
energy it's named after, "Vegas el Bandito" enters and doesn't imply the
James Brown of "Cold Sweat" so much as the panic of night sweats,
churning out a taut groove of slap-happy bass, pattering drums, horn
trills, and a scratchy-scratch guitar line that chases its tail. An
echoing trumpet carries through the end of the song and drifts right on
into "Mary's Operation," an anemic drone of even creepier horns and tape
loops. "New Testament" is an industrial death lurch of rusted metallic
sheets, giving way to "IY," a cluster of conga acrobatics with needling
saxophones and frenetic chants thrown on top. "Porno Base," the real
knockout, contains little more than a series of abysmal bass pluckings
placed just far enough apart to induce chronic paranoia, sounding less
like a smut-film score than "Welcome to the Terror Drone." The finale,
"Quiet Pillage," despite its exotica reference, could only be played in
the ruins of a lounge post-carpet bombing. This is post-punk at its most
invigorating and terrifying... allmusic.com ...
Experimental DIY home-made electronica album ...Recorded at home, using 8-track equipment provided by Industrial group Throbbing Gristle, incidental blips, clicks and noises are provided by the refrigerator and other house appliances... Connotations ...
John Avery was bassist with Sheffield group Hula, associated with Cabaret Voltaire, when he recorded this soundtrack for a theatre performance ... jessica-in-the-room-of-lights
Using dialogue, taped voiceover, soundtrack and choreographed action, Jessica in the Room of Lights
explores a blurred storyline about a cinema usherette whose real life
becomes mixed with films she’s absorbed at work. Moving from the suburbs
to the city, Jessica’s story — a failed romance — is retold in
contradictory versions as a form of incomplete memory.
The first performance by Forced Entertainment, Jessica established
many of the motifs and strategies that would be present in the work for
the next five years — use of taped voice rather than live speech, use of
soundtrack, choreography of actions drawn from narrative and an
approach to storytelling based on the collision and contradiction of
fragments rather than on linear unfolding of events.
John Avery's soundtrack of Jessica in the Room of Lights has been re-released by the aptly named Belgian label Forced Nostalgia.
In The Nursery produce instrumental filmic themed albums... Koda was their third album on Sweatbox, which followed on from Stormhorse... They used the new art of orchestral samples to create neo-classical electronica (the samples were of their time and now sound a bit dated, but the overall effect is the same). Formed by twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone in Sheffield, 1981, they grew out of the industrial music style, and at times here sound like a cinematic Young Gods, or a more upbeat Laibach ...
