Celestial Joy
Celestial Joy has been recorded by Edmund Xavier at Video West in San Francisco in occasion of Horrid Red first West Coast tour and first ever live appearances. As from the title, Celestial Joy is a step away from the depressive synth punk of their first releases. Instead, there is some sort of light cleaved through this album, though only a weak light can filter to the depth of the dark environment we are moving in. The recording session saw the newly established core trio of Edmund Xavier, Bun…
MCMLXXXIII-MCMLXXXVII K7-Tapes Archives
The hidden cassette archives of France's most singular coldwave act, finally unearthed. Opera Multi Steel was founded during the winter of 1982-83 in Bourges by brothers Franck Lopez and Patrick L. Robin alongside Catherine Marie, and from the start they pursued a vision unlike anything else in the European electronic underground: a fusion of minimal synth and darkwave with medieval and renaissance elements, drawing on the gothic architecture and ancient poetry of their hometown as much as on th…