Three appearances of the same Paul Bowles's text about the blink-and-you'll-miss-it transience of our earthly span.
Scenes from the Second Storey and Enemy of the Sun were both released in the same year, 1992. I guess the movie of The Sheltering Sky had come out in 1990.
This next appearance was 25 years later, on Sakamoto's Async.
Freakily a member of God Machine - the bassist Jimmy Fernandez - died unexpectedly young, cutting short the group's existence after just two albums.
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The God Machine - a much hyped band of my era that somehow I never heard
I think my feeling was that after God and Godflesh, this lot were pushing it a bit on the nomenclature front. Reading the rave reviews, I detected a similar redundancy to the sound and thematics - like they'd set up shop in a rather narrow terrain between Prong and Loop. I did not seek them out, and for some reason, no one thought to send it to me, even though it would appear to have been "right up my street" at that time.
