New Musik is an unbelievable band that was alive from 1979-1982*. That is: active for three years, released three albums, and had three Number One hits. The band was lead by Tony Mansfield, who really loved his Fairlight. He later went on to work with the B-52s and A-Ha (!), and --which I love the most-- produced BrainStorm's winning song in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest, 'My Star'. That fact makes me so happy.
(* I saw somewhere that the band existed in 1977, but I haven't found any releases from then, so I dunno...)
Their musik is everything from lush environmental guitar ballads to synth covers of the Beatles, but all have the same layer of New Musik sound. Sweet, dramatic, weird, almost not danceable but still. I love it. I wish they had done more, but here are three songs from the three albums, and a bonus.
From 'A to B' (1980):
New Musik - Sanctuary
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From 'Anywhere' (1981):
New Musik - Luxury
From 'Warp' (1982):
New Musik - The New Evolutionist (Example 'A')
And here's a lovely environmental love song also from 'Warp'. I don't think people were ready for nature-love, so they probably danced with their ears closed.
New Musik - The Planet Doesn't Mind (12" version)
(Here's more New Musik in an earlier post)
Comments(4)
Brilliant stuff. The only song i remember (from my youth) was "Living By Numbers". Any chance of posting that at some point? Haven't heard it for years and years.
Written 26.09.07 13:58
Sure, I'll post it.
Written 30.09.07 17:43
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Written 16.11.07 16:28
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Written 27.08.10 20:53