Double vinyl LP pressing. Includes eight-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. An impediment to achieving a place in the post-punk pantheon - Daszu 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 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 a 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 did it. Not with a big polyphonic keyboard, but with 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.

Tracklist:

A0
Love/Obsession
A0
Cynthia
A0
Suppressed Malice
A0
Emotional Humiliation
A0
Phrenesis
A0
Beta Diminished
A0
Ophelia (Psycho-acoustic Theatre: live performance April 12
1981)
B0
Krystalene Voga 1
B0
Dina-Tina 1
B0
Maximum Talk (Minimum Shame) 1
B0
Plans 1
B0
Mythological Love 1
B0
La Plus Belle 1
C0
Declaration 1
C0
Love/ Obsession 1
C0
Pink Haze 1
C0
Plans 1
C0
La Plus Belle 2
D0
Mr. Irie* 2
D0
Dina-Tina 2
D0
Hey Babu 2
D0
Ophelia*

UPC: 778578317416
Label: Lion Productions
Release Date: 1.17.20
Format: Vinyl

Daszu - Zone of Swans/Lucid Actual + 1/2 Dativa (LP)