Dome – Dome 3

Description

22/03/2024

Recorded 13th Nov 1980 (3), 9th Dec 1980 (6), 11th Feb 1981 (9, 10), 21st Mar 1981 (1, 2, 8), 25-27th May 1981 (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), 10-11th June 1981 (4, 7)

A.M.C. – Voice 1, 2, 6, 9, 10

Peter Price – Drums, Perc. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7

D. O. Miller – Saxophone 1, 5, 7

Russell Mills – Perc. Voice 2, 5

Eric Radcliffe – Guitar 2
Production – Instruments – Voices B.C. Gilbert : G. Lewis


Engineers- Eric Radcliffe – John Fryer. Recorded at Blackwing Studio

Floating-point re-master by Russell Haswell, August 2011
Cut at Dubplates & Mastering by Rashad Becker, August 2011

New artwork and layout: Dave Coppenhall

With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of “using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: DOME (July 1980), DOME 2 (October 1980) and DOME 3 (October 1981). A final fourth album, WILL YOU SPEAK THIS WORD: DOME IV was released on the Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983.

These albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.

Previously issued in the out of print DOME 1-4+5 box set in 2011. Now available as standalone LP with download card.