Room of Lights

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Room of Lights
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Studio album by Crime & the City Solution
Released October 27, 1986
Recorded March – September 1986
Studio Hansa Tonstudios, Berlin and The Strongroom, London.
Genre Post-punk, punk blues
Length34:03
Label Mute
Producer Tony Cohen, Flood
Crime & the City Solution chronology
Just South of Heaven
(1985) Just South of Heaven1985		Room of Lights
(1986)		 Shine
(1988) Shine1988
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Room of Lights is the debut studio album by Crime & the City Solution, released on October 27, 1986 through Mute Records.

Crime & the City Solution Australian rock band

Crime & the City Solution are an Australian rock music band, which formed in late 1977 by singer-songwriter and mainstay, Simon Bonney. They disbanded in 1979 with bootleg recordings and demos that are extremely rare. In late 1983, Bonney traveled to London. Two years later he formed another version of the group there with members of the recently disbanded The Birthday Party; later they transferred to Berlin, where they issued four albums – Room of Lights (1986), Shine (1988), The Bride Ship (1989) and Paradise Discotheque (1990) – before disbanding again in 1991. In 2012 Bonney reformed the band in Detroit with two veterans of the Berlin era and a handful of new members.

Mute Records Ltd. is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. It has featured several prominent musical acts on its roster, such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Inspiral Carpets, Moby, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Wire, Yeasayer, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yazoo, and M83.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Right Man, Wrong Man"Bronwyn Adams, Simon Bonney Mick Harvey 4:20
2."No Money, No Honey"Bronwyn AdamsMick Harvey3:50
3."Hey Sinkiller"Bronwyn AdamsMick Harvey4:08
4."Six Bells Chime"Bronwyn Adams, Simon Bonney Rowland S. Howard 5:40
Side two
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Adventure"Simon Bonney Epic Soundtracks, Harry Howard 3:25
2."Untouchable"Bronwyn Adams, Simon BonneyEpic Soundtracks, Mick Harvey, Harry Howard, Rowland S. Howard5:15
3."The Brother Song"Bronwyn AdamsMick Harvey3:35
4."Her Room of Lights"Simon BonneyRowland S. Howard3:50

Personnel

Crime & the City Solution

Simon Philip Bonney is an Australian country rock musician. He formed Crime & the City Solution in late 1977 as a post punk group and an outlet for his song writing. The band has had different line-ups throughout their history, with Bonney as the only mainstay. Bronwyn Adams joined in 1986 on violin and backing vocals – the pair later married. Incarnations of Crime & the City Solution have existed in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Berlin and Detroit. When Crime & the City Solution split up in the early 1990s Bonney and Adams relocated to the United States where he released two solo albums, Forever (1992) and Everyman (1996). Crime & the City Solution reformed in 2012.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of the British musician Kevin Paul Godfrey. Born in Croydon, Surrey, he was brought up in Solihull, Midlands with his brother Adrian Nicholas, who was known as Nikki Sudden (1956–2006).

Production and additional personnel
Violin bowed string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.

Photography Art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation

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Tony Cohen was an Australian music record producer and sound engineer based in Melbourne. Cohen worked with The Birthday Party, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the 1980s on. By July 1987 Cohen was living in Germany. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Cohen won Producer of the Year for The Cruel Sea's album, The Honeymoon Is Over ; at the 1995 ceremony he won Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year.

Charts

Chart (1986) Peak
position
UK Indie Chart [2] 14

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References

  1. ↑ Hanson, Amy. "Room of Lights". Allmusic. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
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