Brenton
AhmedAndi Sexgang
May 4th 2008 08:35
Andi Sexgang is one of the great undiscovered wonders of the music world. I first discovered him when I found the Album ‘God on a Rope’ in a bargain bin.
God on a Rope is probably a bad place to begin with Andi Sexgang. It’s a great album, but easily one of the least accessible musically.
The second album I found here, this time attributed simply to ‘Sexgang’ is called ‘Last of England’ and is a tribute to Derik Jarman, a writer and director, after whose works each song is named.
This album melds atmospheric instrumentation to alternately beautiful and disturbing effect, mixed with spoken word pieces.
Comparatively, God on a rope is a dark ambient experiment in the limits of music, often stripped down to voice and disjointed sound. Few of the songs on ‘God’ are straightforward – ‘Cold Hard Stone’ is an almost sarcastically joyful piano song, with ‘God Dies’ and ‘Violin Valley’ as others that come close to a traditional song. As a rule, it seems on this album, Andi likes to use effective ambiance, percussion and melody – just rarely together or on the same track.
The two albums I’ve listed aren’t easy to get to, but you can find them on Amazon (I’ve included the obligatory Capitalist swine type link below... no I have not... lets put another instead... ).
Sexgang, while today shrouded in obscurity, was a major player at London’s Batcave, today recognised as one of the big shakers in the early gothic music scene.
There was a brand new surprise waiting for me when I came to post this article just the other day too; Andi has all but disappeared. He’s instead launching new albums, new tours etc. This stunned me; When I heard about him, you’d have to fight to find info; instead of finding information on his Wikipedia page, I made him a Wikipedia page (bastard better be thankful).
So yeah; more info, go to his site HERE; http://www.andisexgang.com/
You can find more of his material within the group Sex Gang Children.
God on a Rope is probably a bad place to begin with Andi Sexgang. It’s a great album, but easily one of the least accessible musically.
The second album I found here, this time attributed simply to ‘Sexgang’ is called ‘Last of England’ and is a tribute to Derik Jarman, a writer and director, after whose works each song is named.
This album melds atmospheric instrumentation to alternately beautiful and disturbing effect, mixed with spoken word pieces.
Comparatively, God on a rope is a dark ambient experiment in the limits of music, often stripped down to voice and disjointed sound. Few of the songs on ‘God’ are straightforward – ‘Cold Hard Stone’ is an almost sarcastically joyful piano song, with ‘God Dies’ and ‘Violin Valley’ as others that come close to a traditional song. As a rule, it seems on this album, Andi likes to use effective ambiance, percussion and melody – just rarely together or on the same track.
The two albums I’ve listed aren’t easy to get to, but you can find them on Amazon (I’ve included the obligatory Capitalist swine type link below... no I have not... lets put another instead... ).
Sexgang, while today shrouded in obscurity, was a major player at London’s Batcave, today recognised as one of the big shakers in the early gothic music scene.
There was a brand new surprise waiting for me when I came to post this article just the other day too; Andi has all but disappeared. He’s instead launching new albums, new tours etc. This stunned me; When I heard about him, you’d have to fight to find info; instead of finding information on his Wikipedia page, I made him a Wikipedia page (bastard better be thankful).
So yeah; more info, go to his site HERE; http://www.andisexgang.com/
You can find more of his material within the group Sex Gang Children.
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