Ash Wednesday & Friends - Love and Other Numbers 1980-1984 (CD)

Electro-plated antipodean-chameleon Ash Wednesday's deep catalogue of minimal-wave and early-electro compositions form an incredibly impressive and desperately under-acknowledged body of work. From the deliriously bouncy new wave pop of 1980's "Love By Numbers" to the Elvis-armed-with-an-analog-synth bombast of 1983's "Boom Boom Baby", Ash joined or created notable minimal-wave/experimental ensembles The Metronomes, Thealonian Music and Modern Jazz alongside solo work.Stark, dark, euphoric, snide and wonky yet joyous and accessible, these experimental/electro (sometimes rockabilly-tinged) sides have long been cherished by knowing collectors but are largely reissued here for the very first time. Remastered, in all their pristine synthetic glory, from the original mastertapes and presented with exclusive liner notes and rare photos. Ash would later join with both Nina Hagen and Einstrzende Neubauten. But that is another story.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Love By Numbers
2. Boom Boom Baby
3. Eighteen Creature
4. A Living Person
5. Do-Do
6. Sex, Pt. 2
7. Life in Paris
8. Psychotic Reaction
9. Hairstyle Exploding
10. A Circuit Like Me
11. Wires and Darkness
12. The Ballad of a Metronome
13. The Galvanized Garden of Inner Peace
14. Bonie Maronie
15. Bad Timing
16. Useless Information
17. Radio Scream
18. Commentator
19. Sex, Pt. 1
20. Boring Instrumental