Tag Archives: 1980

Not so important as a new player, Valzinho was an excellent composer, having still left classics like “Óculos Escuros” (with Orestes Barbosa, 1955; documented by Zezé Gonzaga and by Paulinho da Viola, 1971), “Doce Veneno” (with Carlos Lentine and Esperidião Machado Goulart, 1945; documented by Marion, Djalma Ferreira Group, Jamelão, …

Sunblind Lion was shaped in 1974 in the tiny rural community of Plymouth, WI. Many of its people, including business lead vocalist Keith Abler and guitarist Dave Steffen, graduated through the past due ’60s and early ’70s rings Love Culture and Stage III. Sunblind Lion released three distinctly different albums …

Graph was a short-lived electronic post-punk music group from Sheffield, Britain, that initially included Ian Elliott, Martin Rootes, Ian Burden and Nik Allday. The music group produced its debut on the Fast label’s 1st Earcom compilation, alongside the Empty College students, the Prats as well as the Plants. Allday remaining …

Italian post-disco stalwarts Klein & MBO were shaped across the nucleus of Tomas Ramirez Carrasco and M. Boncaldo. Through the middle-’80s, singles like “Dirty Chat,” “Amazing” and “The MBO Theme” became big strikes in both emerging NY garage picture and Chicago’s home community. Small else is well known about the …

K-Ximbinho was a noted saxophonist, an associate of Severino Araújo’s Orquestra Tabajara, Fon-Fon’s orchestra, Sete de Ouro, as well as the Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional (of Rádio MEC). Being a composer, he was perhaps one of the most contemporary creators from the choro idiom, being truly a pioneer of its modernization …

The Toronto, Canada, group Crash Kills Five formed around 1980, actually selecting their unusual and sad name from a headline in an area newspaper. People of the group included lead vocalist Don Pyle, guitarists Mohammed “Eddy” Nagdee and Brian Connelly, drummer Alex Koch, and bassist Reid Gemstone. The band performed …

Following the breakup of Rema Rema, Gary Asquith, Mick Allen, and Mark Cox formed the art-damaged discordance of Mass with Danny Briottet. Among the first 4AD rings, they debuted using the You and I one in 1980, chasing it up a season later using the full-length Labour of Like. Asquith …

Initially a car for Angela Jaeger, a fresh York-born vocalist who had moved to London to review voice and musical theater, Drowning Craze was just collectively from 1980 to 1982. Although its’ post-punk strategy hook them up to the leading edge of early-80s’ English music, they’re greatest kept in mind …

Bob and Joe Shelton were among the more lucrative sibling works of their period, at least predicated on the amount of recordings they produced — 150 edges lower for Decca alone, aswell as tracks for Victor and Ruler. They aren’t heard about very much today on reissues, partly because a …

Belgian rock band Killer were shaped in 1980 by vocalist/guitarist Paul “Shorty” Van Camp and drummer Excess fat Leo following a breakup of their curiously called earlier group, Mothers of Track. Auditions quickly brought bass participant and backing vocalist Spooky in to the flip and, within four a few months, …