Normil Hawaiians, More wealth than money, 1982 (rééd. 2018)
▻https://normilhawaiians.bandcamp.com/album/more-wealth-than-money
Je découvre avec joie un vieux groupe post-punk britannique dont j’ignorais tout et que je n’arrive à rattacher à rien de connu.
Described by the press upon its release in 1982 as an “absolutely mesmerising double album travelling through progressive rock, via industrial folk to freaky art-punk whilst sounding delightfully coherent” and “a huge slab of mindblowing dark psychedelia” the album was critically acknowledged for its peculiarly British kosmische [c’est clair ?]. However for an album so indebted to the fertile soil from which it sprang, it’s curious that More Wealth Than Money never came out officially in the UK. The band’s label Illuminated were temporarily blacklisted by their distributor because of unpaid debts and so the album was only available from the band at concerts within the UK. The bulk of the record’s sales went to mainland Europe on export.
▻https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/normil-hawaiians.shtml
[Guy Smith: ] When I left school at sixteen, I walked straight into a job. It was really easy. I became a bank clerk. Turned me into a complete anarchist, of course. “Lady Fowlington-Smythe is coming in. She’s got lots of money. Be nice to her!” And I’m like, “What?” Because then they treated someone off the building site like absolute shit. No one is better than anyone else. Better at some things? Maybe. But as a person? No one is above anyone else. I stayed at it for four years, but just took the piss completely in the end. Then Thatcher got in in 79, and suddenly, whoa. What’s happened? This whole yuppie thing was growing up in the early 80s, and it was horrible. All this greed. “Money, money, money.” That really came up. The yuppies. The suits. So, we headed to the hills. For sanity. Brixton and South London were still great fun, but you were aware the world was changing...
[...] We weren’t harking back to pre-punk days, but there were some influences from the early 70s that got a bit blown away in the punk thing that we wanted to revisit.
[...] We used to rehearse like that. We would just turn the lights off and just swap instruments, do whatever you felt, no rules, anything.
▻https://thequietus.com/articles/23664-normil-hawaiians-interview
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