THIS HEAT : This Heat

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Format: CD [thisis1]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs
Label: This Is

2,460円

"This Heat, the band, emerged in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave, but they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in all of England, their concerts attracted experimental, punk and new wave audiences alike. Just a handful of performances made them the band everyone had to see, and every journalist had to interview. And the more we knew, the more enigmatic they became. This Heat was a passion. The band worked day-in, day-out for years in their own, now legendary, studio in Brixton (Cold Storage - sited in an old industrial meat refrigerator), or they were away somewhere touring abroad. In this hothouse environment, their material evolved and grew, and became increasingly intense; on the one hand more cuttingly simple, on the other more layered and more dense. When their first LP -- itself several years in the making -- finally appeared on David Cunningham's Piano label in 1979, with its distinctive blue and yellow sleeve, it acquired immediate iconic status. And over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that anticipate genres that would take another 15 years to reappear. This Heat, the record was a landmark release. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn't aged. The later CD version of the LP has now been out of print for some fourteen years (and is currently fetching $300-$350 second-hand), so this edition, the first on the new This Is label, re-mastered and repackaged by the group, will be doubly welcome. It is the first of a series of historical This Heat re-editions and unpublished works by the band to be released on this dedicated label."

Tracklist
1 Testcard 0:47
2 Horizontal Hold 6:55
3 Not Waving 7:25
4 Water 3:10
5 Twilight Furniture 5:11
6 24 Track Loop 5:56
7 Diet Of Worms 3:08
8 Music Like Escaping Gas 3:40
9 Rainforest 2:54
10 The Fall Of Saigon 5:09
11 Testcard 4:09

Composed By [All Compositions] ? This Heat
Cover [Cover Rebake] ? David Coppenhall
Design [Original] ? This Heat
Engineer ? Chris Blake, David Cunningham, Frank Bryan, Kevin Harrison, Rik Walton, This Heat
Guitar, Clarinet, Viola, Voice, Tape ? Charles Bullen
Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Voice, Tape ? Gareth Williams
Percussion, Keyboards, Voice, Tape ? Charles Hayward
Producer ? This Heat
Producer [With] ? Anthony Moore, David Cunningham
Remastered By ? Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, Denis Blackham

Notes
Released in a standard Digipak with an 8 page insert.
Mono/stereo cassette, 2 and 24 track recordings, feb. 1976 - sept. 1978
The Workhouse, Cold Storage, Camberwell, live and in performance