They were an unlikely pair - unlikely to succeed, unlikely to survive. Martin Rev was a formally-trained keyboard player who studied under the legendary bebop pianist Lennie Tristano. Alan Vega, of Polish and Spanish descent, was an avant-garde sculptor who attacked his art with the same vigour that he saw in the aggro-sexual stage rites of Elvis Presley and Iggy Stooge. Together, as Suicide, they made a joyless noise so relentlessly brutal in it's crude electronic throb, so abrasively savage in it's vocal primitivism, that it was widely assumed that some day Rev and Vega would fall back into the gaping hole in pop sauce from when they'd crawled...
Well the stuff I was talking about regarding which song seems a dream and so on, seems a little abstract said just like that, so I specify (I didnt specify and
P.S. It's a detail but to be precise : in fact Sinbad's Voyage seems at first to be in the bottom of the dream, I feel ; the doubt comes a little later,
I almost never listen to classical but I listen to Stigmata more and more, even if I prefer the four previous albums. What about you people ? The dreamy aspect
Funny... I've just seen a documentary's advertisement featuring "Sinbad's Voyage" on french tv. It's the second time that Revega music is used on tv since that