Recoil (band)

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Recoil is a musical solo project by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder .

history

Since the early 1980s, Wilder had been trying his hand at his own songs while working at Depeche Mode. When Daniel Miller , head of the band label Mute , heard some demo recordings, he offered Wilder to re-produce them and publish them under a pseudonym. In August 1986 1 + 2 was finally released , an EP consisting of two songs . Hydrology followed in 1988 , which appeared in CD and cassette versions together with 1 + 2 as Hydrology plus 1 + 2 . While the English MUTE vinyl release of "1 + 2" is played at 33 r / pm, on the Hydrology CD, strangely enough, the 45 speed was used for recording on both tracks.

After the first two albums mainly consisted of samples from Depeche Mode songs, Wilder used the break after Depeche Mode's World Violation Tour to deal more intensively with his own material. For the first full-fledged recoil album Bloodline with seven songs , released in 1992, he brought guest vocalists into the studio. The Alex Harvey cover "Faith Healer" was sung by Douglas McCarthy , singer of the band Nitzer Ebb , while Toni Halliday from Curve took part in "Edge to Life" and "Bloodline" and Moby rapped on "Curse". "Faith Healer" was also Recoil's first single.

Wilder also collaborated with other musicians on the fourth recoil album Unsound Methods , released in 1997 , including Douglas McCarthy and Wilder's wife Hepzibah Sessa. Wilder produced Unsound Methods , the first album after leaving Depeche Mode, in his private studio "The Thin Line". It was there that the successor Liquid came into being , which appeared in 2000 and on which Wilder continued his guest singer concept. This time he was supported by Diamanda Galás , Nicole Blackman and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, among others .

After Liquid it was quiet about Recoil for a long time until Wilder announced a new album in September 2006. In subHuman , which was published in July 2007, seemed the Blues with musician Joe Richardson and singer Carla Trevaskis.

On April 16, 2010 the best-of-album Selected was released , for which Alan Wilder selected 14 songs from the previous Recoil albums and remastered them. Wilder then went on tour with his project for the first time. The concert in Budapest on December 4, 2010 was recorded from a total of 52 selected events and released exclusively on Blu-Ray in July 2012 under the title A Strange Hour in Budapest .

Discography

Albums

  • 1 + 2 - August 1986
  • Hydrology - January 1988 (MC and CD version incl. 1 + 2 )
  • Bloodline - April 1992
  • Unsound Methods - October 1997
  • Liquid - March 2000
  • subHuman - July 2007
  • Selected - April 2010

Singles

  • Faith Healer - March 1992
  • Drifting - October 1997
  • Stalker / Missing Piece - March 1998
  • Strange Hours - April 2000
  • Jezebel - September 2000
  • Prey - June 2007
  • Prey / Allelujah - February 2008
  • Want - October 2010

Blu-Ray

  • A Strange Hour in Budapest - July 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / selected.recoil.co.uk
  2. ↑ Official website for the Blu-Ray A Strange Hour in Budapest /