From Severe to Serene

Artist: Blue Orchids
Label: Ltm
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5024545220322
ASIN: B00007FZG3

Release Date: 2005-04-05

From Severe to Serene

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Odds & ends from two ex-Fall members: early 80s.......2006-12-27

Many enter the ranks of ex-members of The Fall, fifty more and counting at present. Fewer of them still make music that gets any sort of a hearing in the record world. This is the first such effort.

This spin-off of Fall keyboardist Una Baines and guitarist Martin Bramah, began, as here documented, seemingly barely able to play despite or maybe due to their tenure under the fearsome control of Mark E Smith as he took over what had been an actual band, The Fall. Now, they are one of my top-five favorite musicians, but any true fan will agree they've dredged up a lot of dreck along with the diamonds over the decades. For The Blue Orchids (named by John Cooper Clarke, who should bring a wry smile to those who know the post-punk Manchester scene), their incompetence continued the raison d'etre of The Fall and of the punk movement, even as they shared their peers' ambition to move into more diverse musical terrain, and even, as you begin to hear halfway through this odds-and-sods collection, command over their instruments and, thankfully for anyone who has to listen to Bramah's earlier songs here, a degree of vocal ability.
Let's just say few postpunk-era singers make you admire MES by comparison.

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