[kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

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It sounds like it will be killer! :)
 
~ Lonely Boy
 
In a message dated 12/14/2007 11:33:13 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
vassifer at earthlink.net writes:

BAUHAUS - 'GO AWAY WHITE' 
'I come with this darkness and go away white.' 
Bauhaus slid fully formed from punk rock's womb in late 1978. Over  the 
course of four hot years, they unintentionally birthed a genre  (Goth), 
moved on, moved forward, and surged mercurial through the  post-punk music 
scene, tearing into tense, stark, dub bass-driven  new-wave, T-Rex-esque 
glam, and swirling, clattering, orchestral  atmospherics, whilst churning 
it all into a grand velvet, Rimbaudian  hallucination. It was a wild, 
inspired, enthralling sound. And it  still is. Now there is a new record. 
'Go Away White' was recorded in 18 days at Zircon Skye in Ojai,  with 
singer Peter Murphy, bassist David J, guitarist Daniel Ash, and  drummer 
Kevin Haskins playing together as a band in one room, taking  first takes 
as final cuts. So, a new record but apparently a final  one, the band 
having decided to release it as a posthumous swan  song. 
'Go Away White' is everything you would hope Bauhaus would deliver  as 
their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the  angel of 
the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music  inside is pure 
cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an  enchanted moment. 
Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired  use of Jimi Hendrix's own 
personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him  by Peter Murphy at the start of 
the sessions, it is pop as much as it  is experimental. 
The 10 songs on 'Go Away White' channel the kind of magic timelessness  you 
could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo,  the 
Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar  Wilde 
playing master of ceremonies. 
As the NME once said, "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to  Prog." 
It's all building blocks. Give 'Go Away White' an honest  minute and you'll 
realize that The Klaxons, The Killers, The Rapture  and Foals all got their 
beats from Bauhaus, and how--without  them--there would be no Nine Inch 
Nails or Jane's Addiction or Bloc  Party, Franz Ferdinand, AFI, TV on the 
Radio, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat  or LCD Sound System. 
The accomplishments of the band are too many to list here but to  touch 
lightly, there are the four studio albums: 'In the Flat Field'  (1980), 
'Mask' (1981), 'The Sky's Gone Out' (1982), and 'Burning from  the Inside' 
(1983). There is the riveting appearance with David Bowie  in the 
movie,'The Hunger'. There are the classic Peel sessions and  the 
hits--seismic rumbles such as 'She's in Parties', 'Kick in  the 
Eye','Stigmata Martyr', and the great, epic, pillar of ether and  brooding, 
psychedelia, that is 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.' 
So, an end but an end with one final sonorous statement. Behold 'Go  Away 
White'. 
Watch as night comes, as day breaks and the light . . . pours . . . in. 
--Adam Gnade 
Released on March 4th, 2008 worldwide. Distributed by Red Eye in  North 
America, Cooking Vinyl for the rest of the world. It will also  be 
available as digital download on iTunes (only in North  America).


 



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