DOME 3... recorded erratically over eight months... no mega-productions here... an extended line-up with one DANIEL MILLER on saxophone... language loses its meaning to be replaced by a series of rambling word games, anagrams and nonsense... from the sublime to the subliminal... take the sense out of the sentence... DOME re-invent rhythms with an intricate weaving of voices and percussion patterns.What's this? At last the words? "To speak and let my words come round again", LEWIS intones on the opening track... DOME IV... an extreme and technological album featuring a certain VINCE CLARKE (then of YAZOO, later ERASURE). Sample the circularly repetitive "To walk, to run" and its emixed cousin "To duck, to dive", LEWIS' voice drifting in to tell us to make up our minds, and the all-out grinding nightmare assault of "Seven year".
DOME mapped out their course and wandered freely but DOME IV marks the end of the path, though not the end of the road. Just put to one side to rest... let people catch up... other projects beckon (MZUI, P'O, DUET EMMO, HE SAID...).
These two CDs serve as a testament to the persistence/insistence of BRUCE GILBERT and GRAHAM LEWIS to answer a number of questions that their minds had thrown into focus. DOME betrayed their excesses and weaknesses, but above all it highlighted their strengths and abilities. DOME hid in the shadows. Played to their own rules. Never compromised. Contrived? Possibly. But never conceited. You will feel it in your fingers, toes, breakfast, sofa, chairs, toothbrush, and even in your hair!
Producers:
B.C. Gilbert and
G. Lewis
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