quoted 6 lines Mark Stewart did some great lo-fi, megaphone-throated, highly-damaged
>Mark Stewart did some great lo-fi, megaphone-throated, highly-damaged
>songs on his 3rd album (the one with the microchip on the cover).
>Produced with Adrian Sherwood. It contains a cover of the theme song from
>_Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (sp?)_ which starts off distorted and
>creepy. By the end it has fallen apart, into a mess of tangled tape. You
>can't go wrong.
The track is called "Stranger Than Love", from his third (superb) album
simply called "Mark Stewart". Very noisy (though not as extreme as "As the
veneer..."), great songs.
The other ones are called "Learning to cope with cowardice" (strong reggae
influences), "As the veneer of democracy starts to fade" (HEAVY dub,
extreme Sherwood (over)production, you can hardly hear the songs for all
the reverb, and it was mastered on a Betamax cassette - excellent),
"Metatron" (good album, some groovy tracks with David Harrow) and "Control
Data" (sounds a bit dated, lot of Underground Resistance influence on some
tracks).
quoted 2 lines Did Mark Stewart die? I heard heart attack. I also heard heroin.
>Did Mark Stewart die? I heard heart attack. I also heard heroin.
>But I've learned to mistrust *all* rumors in the music industry.
As you should. The man is alive, and released his 5th album, "Control
Data", last year (on Mute).
Maarten
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