A.C. Marias - Drop / So - 7"single - UK DOM451/ Townhouse 1981 - ACR
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Working as a librarian for over 12 years, I care about the items we have - if the item is a mess - you will know about it and see it, if it was a cut out or a promo, or ex-library book. I will show and tell. Nonsmoking home, original owners...Happy to pass on to someone who wants it.
Condition Media: NM condition Original owners packed away carefully over 30 years...avid collectors, Nonsmoking home.A C. Marias A C. ?– Drop / So
Label: Dome Records (2) ?– DOM451
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield,Experimental
Tracklist
A Drop
B So
Published By – Rough Trade Music
Manufactured By – Rough Trade
Distributed By – Rough Trade
Mastered At – Tape One
Pressed By – MPO
Mastered By – JA*
Notes
Manufactured & Distributed by Rough Trade
Note that the picture sleeve design includes fake wear and damage.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
(this copy you are bidding on)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): DOM 45-1 A1 JA Tape OneMPO
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): DOM 45-1 B1 JA Tape OneMPO
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A.C. Marias was the name under which Wire collaborator Angela Conway released a number of records during the 1980s and early 1990s. She was assisted by Wire's Bruce Gilbert on many releases. On the single "Time Was" and the album One Of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) she was also assisted by other Mute Records musicians, including Barry Adamson (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Rowland S. Howard (The Birthday Party).
She and Bruce Gilbert composed additional music for the Anna Campion film Loaded, under the name A.C. Marias. Conway put the project on hold in 1990, and concentrated on her work as a music video director.
AllMusic Review by Wilson Neate
Throughout the 1980s Angela Conway was a regular contributor to Wire-related ventures such as Dome, P'o, and He Said, usually as a vocalist. During that time, in collaboration with Wire's Bruce Gilbert, she also pursued her own work under the name A.C. Marias. Following several singles between 1980 and 1989, One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) was Conway's debut full-length release. Given Gilbert's contributions to this album -- as a musician, co-writer, and producer -- it's not surprising that his influence should be audible. Indeed, his presence can be felt in the looping, pared-down guitar patterns, synth noises, and sparse repetitive rhythms that give much of the material a mesmerizing quality. But whereas one of those components alone might have been the focus of an entire Dome track, on One of Our Girls they're integrated into more concise, melodic arrangements built around Conway's understated, almost choral vocals. The result is an intriguing collection of minimalist pop songs. Some are immensely catchy, for instance the chugging "Give Me," with its deconstructed rock riff, and the buoyant, up-tempo title track (with its subtly feminist narrative). However, the majority of the tracks are less immediate in their impact, crafted instead with considerable subtlety so that their spare textures reward repeated listenings. With percussion reduced to little more than nuance, "Just Talk" has a slightly hypnotic, ethereal feel, while "There's a Scent of Rain in the Air" is imbued with a more ambient flavor, building tension almost imperceptibly through repeating rhythmic fragments, rustlings of guitar, and layered, echoing vocals. In contrast, an off-kilter cover of Canned Heat's "Time Was" (featuring Rowland S. Howard and Barry Adamson) finds Conway's haunting voice offset with some minor slide-guitar cacophony. This brings the largely delicate, dream-like proceedings to an interestingly nightmarish end.
One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) (Mute/Restless) 1989
When not working behind the camera as a successful video clip director, Angela Conway steps up to the mic and assumes the identity of cool chanteuse A.C. Marias. On her quietly atmospheric records, she receives writing and production assistance from Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert, as well as former Fad Gadget sideman-turned-bigtime-producer John Fryer. The somnolent first side of One of Our Girls — a sheer pastel curtain of arty guitar figures, light synth strains, and dry, wispy vocals that never quite achieves song-ness — floats by uneventfully. Fortunately, the rest of the record has more structural starch, and Marias' dance through an evanescent field of gentle art-rock has moments of real allure.
Ira Robbins from Trouser Press retrieved july 14
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