Search - Arthur Brown :: Requiem/Speak No Tech

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the British Rock icon, both originally released in 1982. Requiem is an end-of-the-world concept album that comes on with a bang, not a whimper, and may well be the best thing that Arthur Brown has ever done! It's got all of the sonic excess you'd expect from the man who gave us 'Fire', but Brown's ornate Art-Rock tendencies are invariably backed up with enough visceral punch to make them marvelously affecting, not merely affected, while producer Earl Mankey handles the electronics well enough to maintain an unusually high level of interest and detail. Speak No Tech was the result of Arthur's collaboration with Blondie producer Craig Leon, who was, as the liner notes state, "laying down basic tracks" while Arthur later overdubbed his part of the deal over them. It's purely electronic, nothing but synthesizers and drum machines. 30 tracks. Lemon.