Wolfgang Press/ Mick Allen / Geniuser

[halfsidan]

Mick Allen is releasing new material :

It's a 5 tr. ep , formats are strictly limited 10" vinyl ep (123 numbered
copies) & download (Itunes, Amazon, etc...)

Here's a sample :
http://svingninger.dk/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=27781

Releasedate sep. 23rd.

It's being released on the danish Phisteria label who also released Geniusers
debut album 'Mud Black'.

www.phisteria.com
www.myspace.com/phisteria
www.myspace.com/geniuser

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Mick Allen made his debut on 4AD with post-punk outfit Rema Rema in 1980.
Rema Rema split up the same year , former member Marco Pirroni went on to hit it big with Adam & The Ants.
Remaining members Mick Allen , Mark Cox & Gary Asquith formed the shortlived Mass.
Asquith moved on to Renegade Soundwave, while Cox and Allen stayed with 4AD as part of The Wolfgang Press.

Wolfgang Press were one of the most mercurial talents of the post-punk era, restlessly moving from gothic noise to dark balladry to eccentric funk; paradoxically, the group was also the 4AD label's longest tenured artist

Wolfgang Press issued their cacophonous, gloomy debut LP, The Burden of Mules, in 1983.
An EP trilogy co-produced by Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie followed in quick succession:
- while 1984's Scarecrow was a lighter, more streamlined affair.
1985's Water spotlighted ominously sparse torch songs, and the same year's Sweatbox explored deconstructionist pop.


The Wolfgang Press' second full-length effort, 1986's Standing Up Straight, incorporated industrial and orchestral influences into the mix, while the Big Sex EP's "God's Number" offered a soulful backing chorus, a harbinger of things to come.

Indeed, after 1988's hypnotic Bird Wood Cage and its leadoff single, "King of Soul," introduced strong elements of dub, reggae, and R&B, the trio took the full plunge into the dance arena with 1991's Queer, an idiosyncratic outing admittedly inspired by De La Soul's landmark 3 Feet High and Rising; the first single, a surreal cover of the Randy Newman-penned "Mama Told Me Not to Come," was a minor hit.

1995's Funky Little Demons completed the Wolfgang Press' transition into white funk; prior to its release, however, Cox exited the group's ranks, and Wolfgang Press soon after called it quits.

After years of silence Mick Allen Re-emerged with Geniuser, a collaboration with Giuseppe Debellis, best known for earlier
collaborations with The Orb.

Geniusers debut album ‘Mud Black’ was released on the danish Phisteria label in 2005 , a dark slab of moody electronica.

[thefxc]

Not bad. It sounds like it follows the direction Wolfgang Press was headed after [i]Funky Little Demons.[/i]

Still, doesn't come close to [i]Bird Wood Cage[/i] or [i]Standing Up Straight[/i]. My god I'm so old and stubbornly impervious to change.

[halfsidan]

[quote][i]Originally posted by thefxc[/i]
<br>Not bad. It sounds like it follows the direction Wolfgang Press was headed after [i]Funky Little Demons.[/i]

Still, doesn't come close to [i]Bird Wood Cage[/i] or [i]Standing Up Straight[/i]. My god I'm so old and stubbornly impervious to change.
[/quote]

Hmmm, i hear you but beg to differ : in my opinion it's a much more sinister vibe than any Wolfgang Press , perhaps except 'Burden...'

Good stuff though.

[halfsidan]

Vinyl can be pre-ordered :
http://www.phisteria.com/phi018.html