Blonde redhead for the damaged coda zippyshare
Reflecting their growing closeness to the D.C.
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Recorded at several New York City studios including the Magic Shop, the band's second album took inspiration from writer/filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and boasted instrumental flourishes such as sitar.įollowing Yasuda's departure, Blonde Redhead continued as a trio. Vincent) stepping in to record September 1995's La Mia Vita Violenta. Takahashi left the band, with Toko Yasuda (who went on to play with Enon and St. That February, the band issued "Flying Douglas/Harmony" as part of Rough Trade's Singles Club. Produced by Shelley, January 1995's Blonde Redhead expanded on the group's noisy guitar interplay and minimalist experiments and included contributions from their longtime friend, bassist Skuli Sverisson. After issuing a split single with Sammy on Misha Records, the band debuted on Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley's label Smells Like Records with the single "Vague/Jet Star" and followed it with "10 Feet High/Valentine." Hirano departed the group, with Maki Takahashi joining the band in time to record their debut album. Blonde Redhead gave a copy of the single to Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon after a show with her project Free Kitten, which led to a gig opening for the alternative rock stars on a tour of Italy. With the addition of Simone on drums and Tada Hirano on bass, they became Blonde Redhead in 1991, taking the band's name from a song on DNA's 1981 EP A Taste of DNA.Īn early gig with Janitor Joe put Blonde Redhead on the radar of Oxo Records, which released the band's debut single, "Amescream/Big Song," in April 1993. However, Makino encouraged them to push their boundaries, and they incorporated alternate tunings and louder volumes inspired by My Bloody Valentine into their style.
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Named for the Godard film, the duo's songs reflected the their love of artists such as Billie Holiday, Joao Gilberto, and the Rolling Stones. After a move to New York City, they met Japanese film student and classical music fan Kazu Makino (vocals/guitar) in 1990 through mutual friends Makino and Amadeo connected immediately and soon formed the project Masculin Feminin. When Blonde Redhead returned with 2023's Sit Down to Dinner, their mystique was as powerful as ever.īorn in Milan and raised in Montreal, Amadeo Pace (guitar/vocals) and his twin brother Simone (drums) moved to Boston to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music.
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With 2007's 23, they streamlined and reinvented shoegaze years before its wider revival, and took their experiments in minimalism to their logical conclusion on 2014's Barragán. Working with the latter band's Guy Picciotto on 2000's Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly resulted in a pair of highlights that put the band's delicate beauty and fierce outbursts in striking balance later in the decade and into the 2010s, Blonde Redhead's music was quieter, but no less inventive. Despite the no wave leanings and pedal stomping of their early singles and 1995 self-titled debut, the group's music was as informed by Jean-Luc Godard and Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work the band paid homage to on 1995's La Mia Vita Violenta) as My Bloody Valentine or Fugazi. A constantly evolving group, Blonde Redhead's artfully noisy rock and mysterious, bittersweet pop are united by a darkly romantic outlook that verges on cinematic.