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Eyeless in Gaza
12+ albums
post-punknew waveexperimentaldark ambientindie
about
There are two artists having this name: 1) Eyeless in Gaza is a post-punk/new wave musical duo of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, based in Nuneaton, United Kingdom. They have described their music as "veer[ing] crazily from filmic ambiance to rock and pop, industrial funk to avant-folk styles." Formed in 1980, the group went into hiatus in 1987 as Martyn Bates pursued a number of solo projects and collaborations, re-emerging in 1993. Becker, a laboratory technician, had played in a covers band before buying and experimenting with a Wasp synthesizer (he released a solo cassette-album in June 1980 and a second a year later). Bates, a hospital worker, had previously been a member of Reluctant Stereotypes, and released a cassette of experimental electronic music in January 1980. Shortly afterwards they met and together they formed Eyeless in Gaza, both contributing vocals and several instruments. The band name is a reference to the novel Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley. Bates has said he chose the name "for the sound of it... I was reading the Huxley book when I met Pete... It sounded perfectly nice." But Bates has also acknowledged an allusion to the "biblical myth" of Samson, saying, "I feel attracted by religion. I feel that people don't pay enough attention to the spiritual side of their life; it is a very interesting side of the human psychism and it fascinates me." After a self-released single, they signed to Cherry Red Records, releasing debut album Photographs as Memo
top songs
albums
Photographs As Memories
Back From The Rains
Sixth Sense
Caught in Flux
Rust Red September
Red Rust September
Voice - The Best Of Eyeless In Gaza
Drumming The Beating Heart / Pale Hands I Loved So Well
Caught In The Flux
drumming the beating heart
Pale Hands I Loved So Well
Plague of years (songs and instrumentals 1980-2006)