White Town
White Town was a synth-pop project that consisted only of the Englishman Jyoti Mishra (born July 30, 1966 in Rourkela , India).
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Career
In 1997, with the EP named after an MS-DOS error message, he achieved Abort, Retry, Fail? surprisingly the top of the British single charts. The first of the four songs, Your Woman, was decisive for the success of the EP . It was a fairly minimalist synthesizer piece that began with a fanfare-like sample from a hit from the 1930s, My Woman by Al Bowlly . Many Britons were still familiar with this tune because it was heard in Denis Potter's 1977 television series Pennies From Heaven . In the slightly wistful text, Mishra praised his relationship problems in a gently ironic way.
Mishra was never able to build on this success, and so White Town is now a classic one-hit wonder . Nevertheless, he released several singles in the following years and the album Peek & Poke in 2000 . Most recently in 2005 he contributed a song for a benefit sampler for the benefit of the UNHCR .
Discography
Studio albums
- 1994: Socialism, Sexism & Sexuality
- 1997: Women in Technology
- 2000: Peek & Poke
- 2006: Don't Mention The War
- 2011: monopolies
EPs
- 1990: White Town
- 1991: Alain Delon
- 1992: Bewitched
- 1992: Fairweather Friend
- 1996: Abort, Retry, Fail?