Artist: Switchblade Symphony Genre(s):
Darkwave
Other
Discography:
Three Calamities Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Serpentine Gallery Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Polishing The Stars (Rare Cd) Year:
Tracks: 12
San Francisco's Switchblade Symphony formed in 1989, when vocalist Tina Root and composer Susan Wallace were introduced by reciprocal friends in the local goth music survey. Frustrated with the melodic projects they were currently involved in, the duette began collaborating and playacting, and curtly south Korean won a devoted audience.
As Switchblade Symphony, Root's musical dramatics education and Wallace's film-scoring live showed in their theatrical vocals and orchestrated, dreamlike sound. Early, self-released cassettes like 1991's Fable and 1992's
Elegy were sold at shows and caught the attention of influential forces in the darkwave view, such as Propaganda magazine and Cleopatra Records.
Cleopatra signed Switchblade Symphony and the group issued their debut album,
Serpentine Gallery, for the mark in 1995.
Snaky Gallery featured lusher, buckminster Fuller versions of many of the songs on the group's initial recordings, mixture a poetical, aery sound with hints of harsher, industrial beats. The album gained decisive clap and provided Switchblade Symphony with opening dates on tours with labelmates like Christian Death in 1996, and other salient darkwave acts like the Sisters of Mercy and Type O Negative.
1997 byword the base return with Bread & Jam for Frances, technically Switchblade Symphony's first base new real for Cleopatra. A heavy electronica influence permeated the album, which featured dub loops and trip-hop beats motley into their black, flowery signature well-grounded. Bread & Jam for Frances as well kept the group's lively momentum going, receiving majuscule parole of mouth; iI singles, "Goofball" and "Drivel," followed in its rouse, along with a limited edition tour record album,
Scrapbook. After disbursement often of 1998 on headlining and supporting tours, Switchblade Symphony released their third album,
Three Calamities, the undermentioned twelvemonth. A fusion of
Snakelike Gallery's opulence and Frances' futurism, it reflected the group's advances as songwriters and performers.
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