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- Founded: Mar 8, 2002
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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...
David Fricke, Melody Maker, November 1986
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Posted - Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:40 pm
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martinpercival
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Re: Martin Rev - Stigmata
... Exactly ! It was surprising. The tracks I prefer are Laudamus, Dona Nobis Pacem, Sanctus, Domine, and Sinbad's Voyage. Powerful. (I think that) it's the
Posted - Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:58 pm
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Vincent Pappalardo
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Re: Suicide at ATP 2009
There's a few clips up on YouTube as well: Ghost Rider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSLOjltSFDs Cheree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAASdNyXQGM Girl
Posted - Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:55 pm
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Richard Emil G.
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Re: Suicide at ATP 2009
Thanks for the links. Sounds great, although Dream Baby Dream is hardly a first album track. Maybe they did it as an encore. Nostalgia will again be the key
Posted - Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:57 am
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Patrik Lindell
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Re: Martin Rev - Stigmata
Wow, just listened to the samples and it's quite different than anything he's done. Sounds like "To Live" performed in the 1700's, haha, No drums, no synth,
Posted - Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:07 pm
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Richard Emil G.
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