A solo and sometimes collaborative electronic music project based in the London area beginning in 2013, and exploring a ‘primitive electronic’ DIY sound using mainly analogue synthesizers. With a sound drawn from late 70’s and early 80’s synth material, deep gothic vocals and a pinch of irony ‘This Is The Bridge’ soundscapes are for the serious minimal synth enthusiasts. Talking to Tonn Records, creative force behind This Is The Bridge, Richard Anderson listed his greatest influences in the development of This Is The Bridge’s sound. “Creatively speaking…my love of music. Recalling the very real fear of nuclear war. Childhood. Memories. The 1970s. A teacher playing the class Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave when I was eight. Hearing OMD’s ‘Messages’ on the local radio in Liverpool the same year (and being transfixed). Quatermass. A love of abstraction. The 1980s. The impact of Thatcherism on the UK and on my family. Hearing the opening moments of ‘Exercise One’ when I bought Joy Division’s ‘Still’ compilation LP and first put it on the turntable (that bassline!). Watching ‘Threads’. Feeling like a teenage alien outsider in the South East of England. Post Punk. The Rite of Spring. Science Fiction. Oxygene. British Television. Disco. The experience of art school. Mars - The Bringer of War. Gary Numan. Michael Nyman. History. Feelings of inferiority. Electro House. Killing Joke. Andrei Tarkovsky. Iain M Banks. Xmal Deutschland. A nation living in the past. The 1990s. Asimov. Atheism. The Fall. Clockwork Orange. Depression. Sinfonia Antarctica. Blackadder. The Young Ones.” You have to admit that with that incredible list, Richard deserves at least 30 minutes of your day. Don’t be expecting dance grooves and up-tempo pop classics as they won’t be found lurking in these digital files. Definitely seek this out as a companion piece for those who enjoyed the Electrical Language post from last week.
Ripped to MP3 @ 320kbps from the Bandcamp page.
"Recalling the very real fear of nuclear war." Nuclear weapons are FAKE, like Convid, like overpopulation, like Hollywood marriages, TOTAL FAKE. Know thine enemy.
ReplyDelete'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'
by H.L. Mencken
Hey Sandi, nice to see you again. "H.L. Mencken -- Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. He was an outspoken opponent of organized religion, theism, and representative democracy, the last of which he viewed as a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors."
DeleteFirst of all, Henry was commenting in the world that he lived in almost 100 years ago. He was of German descent and spoke German through his early childhood. He seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism, yet he opposed the American entry into World War I and World War II, (hummm). Some of the opinions in his private diary entries have been described by some researchers as racist and anti-Semitic (hummm) yet you chose to quote his views of practicle politics...the true reason for Government is to split the polulation into smaller groups making them easier to heard and less likely to come together as one to overthrow the outdated systems we adhear to. To protect the ruling elite and funnel their ill-gotten gains through business finance, to tax the population and spread the wealth in ways that supports their tiny foothold on power...
yes I am interested in politics, but I'd never trust a politian, a police officer or the Press
Know thine enemy for they are real, not fake
Nutty comment, Sandi.
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