Fire on the Moon (Dream Command album)

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Fire on the Moon
Fire on the Moon album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Dream Command
Released1990
Genre Post-punk
Length40:38
Label Island
Producer Kevin Bacon
Dream Command chronology
Chasing Shadows
(1986)		Fire on the Moon
(1990)		 My Mind's Eye
(1992)
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Fire on the Moon is the Comsat Angels' seventh album, released in 1990 on Island Records. It was issued under the alias Dream Command, and in limited quantities in the United States and the Netherlands only. [2] A promo-only single of "Celestine" was released in similarly small quantities. [3]

The Comsat Angels were an English post-punk band from Sheffield England, initially active from 1978 to 1995. Their music has been described as "abstract pop songs with spare instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with some form of heartache". They have been credited as being an influence on later post-punk revival bands such as Blacklist, Bell Hollow, Editors and Interpol. The Comsat Angels toured heavily in the UK and in western Europe, especially in the Netherlands. They also toured the United States twice. Their music has been extensively reissued and recompiled since 1995 by various record labels.

Island Records British international record label of Jamaican origin; imprint of Island Records Ltd.

Island Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island in particular having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.

Dream Command was an alternate name for the band the Comsat Angels, used briefly in their history. In 1990, they released one album under this name, but never performed live with it and never used it again.

Contents

Frontman Stephen Fellows was once asked which of the Comsats' albums was his least favorite. He replied, "Least favourite is not a Comsats album, but a Dream Command one [Fire On The Moon] – what the hell were we thinking about?" [4]

Stephen Fellows is an English singer, songwriter and musician. From 1978–1995, he was frontman for the band The Comsat Angels. He also managed the band Gomez and helped guide the band the Little Glitches.

Fire on the Moon was reissued by Edsel Records in November 2015 as part of a two-CD set which also included the 1986 album Chasing Shadows , which was recorded under the band's original name.

<i>Chasing Shadows</i> (The Comsat Angels album) album by The Comsat Angels

Chasing Shadows is the Comsat Angels' sixth album, released in 1986 on Island Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Bacon/Peake.

  1. "Celestine" – 3:49
  2. "Whirlwind" – 3:35
  3. "Sleepwalking" – 5:13
  4. "Reach For Me" – 5:01
  5. "Ice Sculpture" – 4:44
  6. "Venus Hunter" – 4:37
  7. "Phantom Power" – 3:45
  8. "Transport of Delight" – 3:25
  9. "She's Invisible" – 4:05
  10. "Mercury" – 2:24

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Synthesizer electronic instrument capable of producing a wide range of sounds

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Kevin John Bacon is an English musician and record producer best known for his work with fellow Brit Jonathan Quarmby under the moniker Bacon & Quarmby, as well as his tenure as bassist for the band the Comsat Angels. After leaving the Comsat Angels, Kevin Bacon produced for many other artists, notably Finley Quaye, Longpigs and Ziggy Marley.

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Fire on the Moon may refer to:

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ The Comsat Angels website Archived May 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ Comsat Angels website Archived December 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ Step Off, interviews, Stephen Fellows Q & A Session May 2002
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