| Artist |
Bruce Gilbert; Graham Lewis; Russell Mills |
| Album Title: |
MZUI |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Minimalist Experimental |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
03/31/2003 |
| Label |
Boutique |
| Catalog No |
BOUCD 6602 |
| Bar Code No |
5 024545 227420 |
| Remastered |
Yes |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Untitled (20:58)
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| 2.
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Untitled (21:00)
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| Date Acquired |
02/21/2024 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Darla Records |
| Purchase Price |
13.99 |
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Notes |
Notes:
[The aural record of an audio-visual installation staged during August 1981 at the Waterloo Gallery in London, England.
Originally released on LP in 1982 on Cherry Red Records as MZUI].
Released under license from Cherry Red Records by LTM.
A Boutique label compact disc 2003.
All material has been digitally remastered.
Made in England.
Sound equipment: Britannia Row
Mixed at Blackwing Studio
Liner Notes: © 2003 Kevin S. Eden (with thanks to Fergus Kelly).
The Boutique label is a division of LTM Publishing
Packaged in a standard jewel case with 8-page booklet. Track durations are not printed on the release.
Artists' names as 'Gilbert/Lewis/Mills' on spines.
Credits:
Engineer – Eric Radcliffe, John Fryer
Liner Notes – Kevin S. Eden
Photography By – Angela Conway, Graham Lewis, Martin Axon
Companies, etc.:
Recorded At – Waterloo Gallery
Mixed At – Blackwing Studios
Licensed From – Cherry Red Records (2)
Licensed To – LTM (4)
Record Company – LTM Publishing
Copyright © – Kevin S. Eden
Made By – Universal M & L, UK
Glass Mastered At – Disctronics
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text, back cover): 5 024545 227420
Barcode (Scanned, EAN-13, back cover): 5024545227420
Barcode (Text, US sticker): 7 08527 66022 5
Barcode (Scanned, US sticker): 708527660225
Matrix / Runout: DISCTRONICS BOUCD6602 01
Matrix / Runout (Inner transparent ring): MADE IN THE UK BY UNIVERSAL M&L
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L135
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 94F4
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 04F4
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Analyzed Folder: Dome - MZUI_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR14 -0.00 dB -19.53 dB 01 - Part 1.aif
DR13 +0.00 dB -19.09 dB 02 - Part 2.aif
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Number of Files: 2
Official DR Value: DR13
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Wilson Neate:
During Wire's hiatus in the early '80s, Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis pursued numerous projects together. Mzui grew out of the pair's more experimental endeavors as Cupol and Dome, which favored minimalist industrial ambience forged from drones, sparse mechanical rhythms, and varieties of austere noise. Just as Gilbert and Lewis' Dome projects explored the recording studio's potential as a performance space and their live appearances became artistic happenings, Mzui was a further manifestation of their interest in experimentation and the blending of art forms. The album was originally an audio-visual installation project developed over three weeks in 1981 with graphic artist Russell Mills at London's Waterloo Gallery (a former meat-packing warehouse) with elements fashioned from materials and objects found in and around the gallery. Mzui focused on the artistic process, itself, not the end product. Gilbert, Lewis, and Mills changed the components of the installation on an almost daily basis and worked with new materials as they were found and incorporated. Most importantly, Mzui deconstructed the traditionally fixed positions of artist and audience, as gallery visitors were encouraged to interact with and modify the installation's varied components. Microphones captured the resulting sounds, which were recorded and amplified. Originally released on vinyl in 1982, the Mzui album features two 20-minute pieces that provide a sampling of the proceedings and an aural map of the gallery's shifting interior landscape. Track one is a fragmented collage of abrasive metallic bursts, rumblings, clanging, and even sawing, which coalesce into an eerie, whistling finale. The second piece is relatively seamless, building from what sounds like a manic fairground organ into a dark, threatening ambience with otherworldly choral elements and concluding with the looped voice of Marcel Duchamp. The missing link between early Cluster and Aphex Twin, Mzui is a challenging but engrossing aural experience.
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