DOME .1 // first album 1980 UK VINYL LP wire B.C.GILBERT / G.LEWIS minimal synth
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ORIGINAL LP released on DOME records (cat#DOME 1), made in UK, 1980
1
TRACKS
side a - CANCEL YOUR ORDER / CRUEL WHEN COMPLETE / AND THEN... / HERE WE GO / ROLLING UPON MY DAY
side b - SAY AGAIN / LINASIXUP / AIRMAIL / AMPNOISE / MADMEN
Just as Colin Newman followed his hard-edged pop ideals once free of Wire, Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert also followed their own musical concepts, if one can call it music. Their passion for repetition, sound-loops and making a piece that can stand in isolation, were able to flourish, no longer stemmed by Colin Newman and Mike Thorne's more commercial leanings.
One had seen hints of what was to come with the Wire tracks Former Airline and The Other Window, both more-or-less made up of organised noise with narratives over the top, but little could have prepared the average listener for Dome.
Dome 1 was the first release and begins in a slightly mediocre fashion but at least highlights the duo's intentions in the narrative: 'Change the menu, a different revenue/A glorious change, refining the focus'. Things quickly pick up with the haunting and mesmerising Cruel when Complete and Rolling Upon my Day, a track that begins with busy rhythms and a wonderful guitar loop before mixing into a heavily echoed drum pattern and subtle vocals. Elsewhere, melodies and beats occasionally appear from under a barrage of mechanical noises and treated tapes.
Vinyl is in EXCELLENT (VG++) condition (occasional light crackle/5 repetitive tics on LINASIXUP) and jacket is in VG+ condition (edge/corner wear, light ringwear, sticker on front).
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