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| | Music | When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
Eliphas Levi. translated by Aleister Crowley.........................................................................................................................................................................................
...New technology has democratised and opened up the possibility of anyone creating Rhythmic or Ambient sequences and sampled sounds and it is simple enough for anyone to program. But without creative intuition and that indefinable gift of the Soul it is hollow and disposable. Longevity is born from something that captures the time and that can be replayed after decades and still holds its power a kind of battery of energy that can be drawn on time and again. That is the ultimate test like a painting we can look at and see a new. Adi Newton/Jane Radion Newton.
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.....In 1978/9 they produced a series of five private tapes of their various experiments which contained tracks with titles like- 'Coil', 'Through Latex Mirrors' and 'Synchromesh'.Through the groups alliance with Cabaret Voltaire, they presented their first 'proper' recording- "White Souls In Blacks Suits"- which was issued as a cassette release on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records (at TG's invitation).
This was a recording taken from hours of improvisations which was later edited and mixed at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works studio and features some Tape montage work from Chris Watson, whilst Kirk and Mallinder engineered and co-produced the whole affair with the group.
They (or someone close) also coined their own tongue-in-cheek genre-'Nothern Industrial Soul'.
The 'post-punk' boom was well under way and word spread like wildfire in the right circles and it wasn't long before Clock DVA released their first slice of vinyl via Fetish Records- 'Thirst'.
The album cover greets you with a fantastic image which depicts a kind of dark sepia-tinged satanic baby (like a minimal interpretation of one of H.R.Giger's infant beasts), this was done by one of the great sleeve illustators of the time, Neville Brody.
"Uncertain"-
This starts with the breathing, echoed flashes of Saxophone, Clarinet and minimal Tape interjections and it's this opening experimental section which suits the title so well, a great and mysterious mood is set before the Banshees like drumming comes in and shows the way.
Adi Newton's vocals are very strange. They always remind me (on this album anyway) of a kind of less-hoarse Beefheart and Paul Widger's Guitar playing also makes the overall sound become like a dark-Magic Band. Dark Mirror Men maybe??
Newton's cry of "Try....Try...." is a great culmination of this fine opener.
"Sensorium"-
Very upbeat and less dark with sprightly Soprano Sax and Guitar thrashings together with Newton's neurotic visions of the city:
"Uptown apocalypse...concrete and shouts all around.......well is this where it happens...1000 bodies cramped into a tight space....
Line up the guns....."
"White Cell"-
"Active, then immobility I am myself against their laws of morality
Inturned, I turn towards the eastern block, create a new mental space
......carve out an area which is undefined...."
A sense of claustrobobia with a bubbling bassline and insistent scratching Guitar and honking reeds as Newton is resigned to his condition.
As I've said, this is dark but not depressive.
Some of the journalists at the time, were all too ready to paint the sound as 'sheffield-bleak-grey', but if you stick with it, this album has a hidden charm, especially as you delve into Newton's great lyrics.
"Piano Pain"
A faint tinkling tape of a piano is interrupted with a leaden stomp of the rhythm section and some manic Sax blowing - brilliant!
"Underneath all this a voice describes how life is leaving him
Haunted by blue visions, distorted glass fragments....
Speak to him, females torture his hours, with words of indoctrination"
"Blue Tone"- starts with a low shimmer of tapes/electronics which leak in and out of the track. Apart from the various effects on the Sax, there isn't much treatment on the other instruments throughout the album, which may account for the overall strangeness.
When you think that Newton was no stranger to experimentation and that he had been immersed in electronic and tape works for the previous few years, you can see he was trying a different approach here with standard sounds and just the minimal use of tapes, but all set against the inspired to paint a very different picture to what others were doing in his hometown.
"North Loop"- is a slower paced with crystal-echoed Guitars and Newton going for reverbed declarations of the songs title and a nagging tale of inner frustration-
"To and fro here we go.......taped a voice, measured its tonal depth
played it back again....North Loop!...start again....North Loop!....
....start again...then all these would be funksters (pop up)...start again"
"4 Hours"-
This was released as a single and climbed the indie charts of the music weeklies.
It's a great song and even went so far as to be deemed an underground hit!
The rhythm comes in boisterous and a great Sax sound.
It's in tune but out of tune at the same time and is set just at the right volume in the mix- so as not to derail everything else and Newton delivers some of his finest words-
"This mid-morning awakening...this bleak whiteness, nothingness...
the eye that stares through your mirror, a suction entanglement
On stained sheets, figures with no regrets, their doubts caste a shadow here....the time drifts...the time swells...the skies melt.....
This could be New York, this could be London, I don't care anymore
I'm wearing this suit, a black suit, I'm wearing this tie, A black tie
I'm carrying this case, a black case, I walk down the street...
the people are staring, the taxi cab is slower....
A piano falls from above............ it smashes in front of me!...."
If Clock DVA were remembered for anything back then, it was for this fine piece of paranoid pop (!)
"Moments"
Beginning with a long, fuzzed-out note and then a slight punch of a delayed guitar chord, the Drums creep in aided by the Bass and here the Voice is measured and slow with the odd Tape insertions adding to the excitable unease, the Sax flitting like a moth around the flickering sodium lamps on the street corner.
"Impressions Of African Winter"
A repetitive high two-note Bass and slow spiralling Flute lay out the scene with further odd imagery-
"Flesh tanned and red dust skies, a landscape which divides enclosed
...heat of the moment ivory and black velvet fall...I kissed her lips"
The track has a great build up with some fine Guitar sounds, but fades out all too quickly....
Newton and Turner disbanded the line-up, only to reform with a set of different players.
After the tragic death of Judd Turner, Newton carried on to make a string of interesting releases rangeing from the sound being enhanced by brass instrumentation and later setting up the Anti Group Communications Project and carved out a cult following across the globe with the emphasis on a more electronic sound.
Check out the "Buried Dreams" album, a totally different kettle of fish to the early work here, but shows how Newton was striving forward on different ideas and projects.
"Thirst" and "White Souls In Black Suits" are REALLY crying out for the remastered/repackaged makeover (not to mention the 'private tapes' from 1978/9).
I'm surprised that no label has done it before the year 2000 (the Italian label Contempo released Thirst on CD in 1992
Let's hope someone will do it before 2010!...........................................................................................................................................................................................
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Clock DVA's Buried Dreams
Clock DVA emerged from the North on the vapour trails of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, forcing their way past the steel machine dreams of the early Industrial Scene and into the metaphysical, Deleuzian, broken backed psycho-mysticism that eventually saw the members fragment into the Haflerish Anti-Group.
While many of their contemporaries seemed happy to explore and transcribe the sounds of the everyday in all it's prosaic beauty and scummy splendour, Clock DVA wanted to explore sounds that we hadn't yet heard, perhaps picking up the gauntlet from Chris Watson's Cabaret Voltaire defection. Adi Newton went down a slightly different path, one similar to the Hafler Trio but altogether more musical, as if he felt the need to hinder himself within the boundaries of beat in order to expand sideways into the psychophysical exploration of sound.
Buried Dreams is their masterpiece. Even the packaging managed to dig up a host of references: Girogio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, the grinning face of John Wayne Gacy, Appollinaire and Walerian Borowczyk.......................................................................................................................................................................................
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Released at a time when the Rev-Co / Ministry industrial-dance axis was just about full throttle and forcing a New Beat, A Grumh physicality onto the industrial map (thus following the lead of Test Dept and the earlier, more muscular Neubauten), Buried Dreams was marketed in much the the same way - play it in your industrial nightclubs folks! - but transcended that genre in two ways: firstly by u-turning into the inner realms and the unconscious, leaving the body behind as a passive machine for the mind and, secondly, by forcing a more singular version of the non-linear song form into the arena, so that the album sounded like an album, rather than a collection of floor fillers and tub-thumpers surrounded by putty-faced filler.
It's almost a concept album, albeit more Kinks than Yes. And there's a real attempt to sing, even if the vocals can occasionally weave their way towards Gothic murk. At the time, this seemed like a real shock; us Industrial fans had been used to a few years of shouting and sampled steel smashing ( it was getting on our tits), but we were hardly prepared for singing (a similar shock came with the Nine Inch Nails first album - I remember several grumpy Goth kids staring at it, then at me, trying to work out when the nails bit was going to start).
Clock DVA - Buried Dreams
Buried Dreams takes legendary proto-vampire Countess Elizabeth Bathory as it's starting point, mapping on a Bataille self-destroying angel fixation or two and then mixing in cello rumbles, piano stabs, drones and orgasmic sighs which seem to summon the ghost of de Sade... it's the most soundtracky of the songs on the album, beat-driven but ponderous, the vocals lying low and growling in the mix...
Clock DVA - Velvet Realm
Velvet Realm opens the vocals out a little, taking the fetishism theories of Krafft-Ebing's psychopathia sexualis as a starting point for a machine clicking, Exorcist-evoking tongue-lick, complete with references to velvet kinkiness and human drains.
Clock DVA - Sound Mirror
Sound mirror sounds not unlike The Shamen circa Phorward (always my favourite album of theirs) with drums all over the place, electronic squiggles and spoken word samples diving in and out. There's mroe than a little of John dee's scrying mirror in there somewhere, though this might just be auto-suggestion or fatigue.
Clock DVA - The Hacker
The Hacker rattles along on propulsive drum patters while secret machines try to bust in from the outside like an early Matrix rehearsal. In the light of Aronofsky's Pi, this makes perfect sense.
Clock DVA are bleak, pervy, pataphysical, studious, mystical, portentous and they slightly remind you of the geeky science boy with the popping eyes and the tub of ketamine but somehow they stew all this into music which has been very both innovative (you hear the joins beginning to unravel into glitch electronica) and, they'd hate me for saying this I'm sure, fun.
Clock DVA: jumping beans in the aether.
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NEW CLOCKDVA RELEASES 2008 /2009 ……………………………………..
AFTER 2 YEARS OF EXTENSIVE WORK BY ADI AND JANE NEWTON ON NEW DESIGNS AND AUDIO RE MASTERING,THE MUTE RECORDS BOX SET OF ALL THE CLOCKDVA BACKCATALOG IS FINALY REACHING COMPLETION AND WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE IN THE AUTUMN OF 2008. BOX EDITION WILL INCLUDE EXTENSIVE 100 PAGE BOOK. THE BACK CATALOG WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AS INDIVIDUAL CD,S ………………….A NEW CLOCKDVA ALBUM IS CURRENTLY IN PROCESS SCHEDULED FOR A 2009 RELEASE ……… ……………………………………
CLOCKDVA WAS CREATED AND INITIATED BY ADI NEWTON AND STEVEN JAMES TURNER.AD 1977/78 THROUGHOUT ITS MANY FORMATIONS ONLY ONE DIRECTOR HAS BEEN AT ITS HEAD THIS IS ADI NEWTON .DVA IS THE REVERSAL OF LIGHT ,ARR 401. ITS COLOUR IS BLACK TO THE BLIND,AND MY NUMBER IS 11.AS ALL THEIR NUMBERS WHO ARE US.
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"For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique and there shall be no other women like her."
JACK WHITESIDE PARSONS EXTRACT The Book of Babalon, verse 37
10. I will come as a penelous (sic) flame, as a devious song, a trumpet in judgement halls, a banner before armies.
11. And gather my children unto me, for THE TIME is at hand.
JACK WHITESIDE PARSONS EXTRACT LIBER 49 THE BOOK OF BABALON MARCH 4 1946
CLOCKDVA /ADI NEWTON STATEMENT OF INDEPENDENCE 4TH JULY 2008
The Voice of Silence
We do not judge a painting on a section of its whole or a book by one chapter
nor a film by its beginning or its end .My work similarly should not be based on one
period of work but as a whole a creative process that develops through time, something continuous and that grows.The ideas that were there with me intuitively at the very beginning carry on and through the whole of my work ,not attached at a latter stage, so as to be seen as being something it is not.
My work is broad from the extreme frequency experiments of the original Clockdva
circa 77 to the free jazz ensemble pieces of the Anti group or the minimal electronic
atmospheric soundscapes of Sonology of Sex II.As a Painter uses brushes or a Director employs actors it is the single unfaltering vision of the directing artist that creates the final work.At times it is necessary in the process of creation to stand outside again and experiment with different forms on a personal level, to research ,to live a different life, to evaluate the past and search the inner self the psychology of the source of one’s inner being. Over the last 11 years I have done just that, this period allowed me to see the true measure of my self, the mistakes and the successes. Throughout this time my wife Jane has helped and guided me with her scorpionic and magickal intuition and practice, without her my reflection would not be real,true.DVA is again TWO, it was two when I began the conception of DVA with my dearest friend,my spiritual brother Steven (Jud) Turner another Scorpio always rising, always here. DVA return’s to two, because at the root of all that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful is love ,love under will ,Un-ending Eternal at the core of us, without it we are hollow shadows...........................
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New Signs- Scorpio Rising
When I developed Burning Water my intension was to initiate a magickal formulae within it one that was based in part on Thelemic and Meontological processes, its alchemical distillation has now given rise to new signs and these signs partly envisaged on the albums Buried Dreams and Sign have taken form in the new works that we have been experimenting and developing not only in the studio but as an integral part of my life. The new signs are forming and with it a rising Aour that unfolds in the Amenta ..Adi Newton Era Vulgaris 2008
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