On this day of November 1984, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Mick Karn of Japan, released their debut project album, "The Waking Hour". Fact magazine included it in their list "20 best goth records ever made".
Because the artistic groundwork for each of those seeming quantum leaps was fully contained within the grooves of this platter. All of the hallmarks that make those two later album stand out to my ears; their lithe combinations of Eastern drone and Western classicism, the dry, arid, yet compulsive rhythms are all here to point the way forward. When the eponymous title track began, it was clear that Karn had little need of the full compliment of JAPAN to realize his full ambitions. He played all instruments here save for “rhythm construction.” True, Steve Jansen was a phenomenal drummer, who pushed far into the outer reaches of art rock and was a master at using off-meter rhythms to advance the music dramatically, but I must give credit for the metronomic beatbox programming of Paul Vincent Lawford for providing the unsung glue that held this album together.
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