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Chorchazade

Chorchazade

Chorchazade has been played on NTS shows including Tita's Show in on, with It Aint Because first played on 1 December 2015.

Chorchazade were a British post-punk group from Penzance, England, formed in the late 1970s and presumed to have dissolved in 1989. Their music has been regarded as preempting both the first wave of post-rock, and 1990s indie rock. Operating from a base in St Pauls, Bristol with very little self-promotion, the group performed sporadic concerts in Britain and Europe from 1977 to 1988; they variously served as the supporting band for James, Marc Riley and the Creepers, A Certain Ratio, The Blue Aeroplanes and The Brilliant Corners.

They eventually released the 12'' EP Crackle and Corkette in 1985 and the album Made to Be Devoured in 1987. John Peel played a track off the initial single, but said in snide that he "wished the group had a simpler name, like the Moody Blues’", and was reluctant to further promote the group. NME said that "Made to Be Devoured has no close blood relatives […] Blurred vocals distort the view, enticing you to peer further into the dimly perceived core." They also played at Glastonbury in 1988, but only on a "warm-up" Thursday whereupon it rained heavily; they were met with positive reception by the audience only when the rain cleared, and while the band had backstage passes for the whole festival, they went home as soon as they had finished.

In 1989, the band recorded an album entitled Death is Eeklo, which featured a radical, aggressive change of pace in their music on several songs, presaging the post-hardcore of the 1990s. They went to play in Belgium to promote it; the group's minibus was found abandoned by friends in a rest stop only a mile outside of Waterloo. The tour was not completed and the album was never officially released. Miraculously, in 1995, an anonymous figure rescued hundreds, estimated to be 75% of the total number originally pressed, of pressings of both of the group's releases from being totally discarded outside of a Bristol music distribution factory.

it has been stated in second-hand accounts that Steve Albini was known as having enjoyed Made to Be Devoured.

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Chorchazade

Chorchazade has been played on NTS shows including Tita's Show in on, with It Aint Because first played on 1 December 2015.

Chorchazade were a British post-punk group from Penzance, England, formed in the late 1970s and presumed to have dissolved in 1989. Their music has been regarded as preempting both the first wave of post-rock, and 1990s indie rock. Operating from a base in St Pauls, Bristol with very little self-promotion, the group performed sporadic concerts in Britain and Europe from 1977 to 1988; they variously served as the supporting band for James, Marc Riley and the Creepers, A Certain Ratio, The Blue Aeroplanes and The Brilliant Corners.

They eventually released the 12'' EP Crackle and Corkette in 1985 and the album Made to Be Devoured in 1987. John Peel played a track off the initial single, but said in snide that he "wished the group had a simpler name, like the Moody Blues’", and was reluctant to further promote the group. NME said that "Made to Be Devoured has no close blood relatives […] Blurred vocals distort the view, enticing you to peer further into the dimly perceived core." They also played at Glastonbury in 1988, but only on a "warm-up" Thursday whereupon it rained heavily; they were met with positive reception by the audience only when the rain cleared, and while the band had backstage passes for the whole festival, they went home as soon as they had finished.

In 1989, the band recorded an album entitled Death is Eeklo, which featured a radical, aggressive change of pace in their music on several songs, presaging the post-hardcore of the 1990s. They went to play in Belgium to promote it; the group's minibus was found abandoned by friends in a rest stop only a mile outside of Waterloo. The tour was not completed and the album was never officially released. Miraculously, in 1995, an anonymous figure rescued hundreds, estimated to be 75% of the total number originally pressed, of pressings of both of the group's releases from being totally discarded outside of a Bristol music distribution factory.

it has been stated in second-hand accounts that Steve Albini was known as having enjoyed Made to Be Devoured.

Original source: Last.fm

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