- Red Mecca
Infobox Album |
Name = Red Mecca
Type =Album
Artist = Cabaret Voltaire
Released = September 1981
Recorded = Western Works,Sheffield , May 1981
Genre =Post-punk , Industrial
Length =
Label = Rough Trade
Producer = Cabaret Voltaire
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wifoxqw5ld6e link] |
Last album = "Three Mantras " (1980)
This album = "Red Mecca" (1981)
Next album = "2X45 " (1982)"Red Mecca" is an album by the Industrial/
Post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire. Released in 1981 onRough Trade Records (ROUGH 27), it was their final album before the departure ofChris Watson . It reached No.1 on the UK Independent chart in September 1981 [Lazell, Barry. "Indie Hits 1980-1989" (Cherry Red books, 1997), p.311]Background
In November 1979 Cabaret Voltaire toured the
United States , and became strongly interested in the rise of theChristian right and its use oftelevision , especially the fund-raising broadcasts ofTV evangelist Eugene Scott . They compared this to the rise ofIslamism , devoting a side to each strand of religious politics on their 1980 mini-album "Three Mantras ". "Red Mecca" was a culmination of this interest. According to Richard H Kirk: "The whole Afghanistan situation was kicking off,Iran had the American hostages...we were taking notice...it's not called that ["Red Mecca"] by coincidence. We weren't referencing the fucking Mecca Ballroom inNottingham !" [Reynolds, S. "Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984" (Faber and Faber 2005), pp.171-2.]Track listing
ide A
# "A Touch of Evil" - 3:11
# "Sly Doubt" - 4:59
# "Landslide" - 2:08
# "A Thousand Ways" - 10:35ide B
# "Red Mask" - 6:54
# "Split Second Feeling" - 3:47
# "Black Mask" - 3:19
# "Spread the Virus" - 3:40
# "A Touch of Evil (Reprise)" - 1:32Recording details
Recorded at Western Works,
Sheffield , May 1981.
*Stephen Mallinder : vocals,bass guitar , bongos.
*Richard H. Kirk :guitar strings,clarinet , horns.
* Chris Watson:Vox Continental organ,tape recorder
*Nik Allday - drumsProduced by Cabaret Voltaire.All Tracks composed by Kirk/Mallinder/Watson, except "A Touch of Evil" by
Henry Mancini , arr. Cabaret Voltaire."A Touch of Evil" was originally composed to soundtrack
Orson Welles 's film of the same name.References
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