DASZU – Zone of Swans/Lucid Actual + 1/2 Dativa. Lion Productions LION 682. FACTORY SEALED NEW CD. Originally recorded between 1979 and 1983. This compilation issued in 2017. Comes housed in a digi-pak. Includes a 24-page insert booklet containing the Daszu manifesto, poetics for most tracks, a measure of band history, and Part 1 and 2 of Mark Rudolph's poetry from the Daszu era. This CD edition is limited to just 300 copies; a vinyl edition is to come later in 2018. TRACKS, Zone Of Swans / Lucid Actual ____ Severence:  Love / Obsession (2:03), Cynthia (2:19), Suppressed Malice (2:49), Emotional Humiliation (1:36), Phrenesis (2:18), Beta Diminished (2:45), and Ophelia (6:16) (Psycho-acoustic Theatre:  live performance from April 12, 1981). Enticement:  Krystalene Voga (3:20), Dina-Tina (2:53), Maximum Talk (Minimum Shame) (3:21), Plans (4:53), Mythological Love (3:03), and La Plus Belle (3:49). 1 / 2 Dativa:  Declaration (5:59), Love / Obsession (2:36), Pink Haze (3:14), Plans (4:54), La Plus Belle (4:00), Hey Babu (6:49), and La Plus Belle (4:00). DESCRIPTION:  From Milwaukee, Wisconsin (not something you would guess from the sounds within). This is a collection of rare material, previously released only on cassette (in limited editions in Helsinki and Dublin), from the early 80s and which is definitely reminiscent of Devo's better material from the same period and earlier.

 

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Excavation of astounding underground post-punk recorded from 1979-1983. Style: minimal, semantic, intense (in poetic first). There is poetic subtlety and musical freshness not confined to one historical period.

 

The Rest Of The Story:

 

If there's one thing we've learned from doing reissues for twenty years, it's that there is often a lack of justice in the arts. All too often, the intensely talented are shunted aside, or not able to access the means to a greater hearing, or marginalized (or eradicated) by larger societal (commercial) (racial) (political) forces, to name just three potential prongs of an art-crushing pitchfork (no pun intended). The less an artist's work can be categorized, the greater the odds of being an eternal outsider. The more pure those artistic efforts are, the greater the chance they cannot be categorized. Such is the case with the music of Daszu. They were three, and minimal. Bass, synthesizer, and drums.

 

I'd like to tell you that the music of Daszu reminds me of This Heat. I'd like to tell you that the music of Daszu reminds me of the Pop Group... or A Certain Ratio. It does, in purity of intent—in the great expansive reach of the attempt, and the self-assurance of the resulting music. This intensity of intention is evident in the dark, buzzing electronics; in the propulsive drumming; in the insistent bass-lines; in the emotional vocals; and in the lyrics.

 

An impediment:  Daszu, the brainchild of Mark Rudolph, was based in Milwaukee, not in the UK. Except for cassette distributions in Helsinki and Dublin, and a few scattered performances, they lived, practiced and performed near home. In 1979, Mark Rudolph (now an interactive 3D artist, musician, software developer, mathematician and the director of i3Dmedia LLC) talked in his kitchen to David Wolf about an idea he had for a new music:  how music could be 'popular' without rock guitars and big wall sound such as large amps and organs. "I said we could do a minimal three-piece music based on new melodic lines and poetry and synthesis. I thought that we could remake reality. It was possibly ambitious, but I didn't think so. We decided to do it." They didn't use a big polyphonic keyboard, preferring a mini-moog sound generator.

 

The 1/2 Dativa material included on our Lion survey of Daszu's musical innovations was the work of Rudolph and his Australian friend and musician, Greg O'Connor (Boom Crash Opera). Rudolph had been studying mathematics and computer music in Australia, and a mix of Daszu, his computer generated music and O'Connor's great genius with electronic parts is evident in these intense, propulsive recordings made on a pair of DX-7 synthesizers one feverish day in 1983. Highly recommended for those minds open to the possibilities of what can be. Watch for volume 2 (shortly) to hear the future of Daszu.

 

 

 

 

 

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