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CURVE
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Toni Halliday & Dean Garcia |
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You
can consider Curve's music as a mix between guitar noise,
dance tracks, dark goth, and airy melodies but "Dark
music" is more appropriated.
The meeting between guitarist Dean Garcia and vocalist Toni
Halliday was made through David Stewart of Eurythmics.
Halliday met Stewart while she was a teenager and they remained
friends for years.
Garcia played on Eurythmics' Touch
and Be Yourself
Tonight.
Halliday happens to be married to producer Alan Moulder
,their circle of friends also includes producer Flood (Mark
Ellis) and My Bloody Valentine thoughtmeister Kevin Shields,
as well as Tim Simenon , Trent Reznor or Alan Wilder
The two played together in State of Play, who released one
album and two singles in the late '80s to little notice.
After the failure of that band, Garcia and Halliday went
each on their own to get back together in the early 90s.
They called themselves Curve, and they released three EPs
that became independent hits in 1991.
Their next EP and first album, 1992's Doppelganger,
hit number one on the U.K. indie charts.
In 1993 they released Cuckoo,
for which Curve had added two guitarists and a drummer,
with Garcia moving to bass.
Cuckoo is noisier and more experimental
than their previous releases.
The album didn't have the same success as the previous ones
, the band splitted several months after its release, only
to reform in 1997 with the Chinese
Burn EP. The full-length Come
Clean was released a year later in 1998.
Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia are no strangers to record
label problems. They kept up with their fans by running
their own web site (an amazing site at www.curve.co.uk/)
and even gave those fans a collection of MP3 that are considered
now as full official album (Open day at the Hate Fest)
And right now they released GIFT(Hip-O/Universal)
their latest album, very surprising and with lot of guests
coming by for some of the songs (among them Alan Wilder)
. Curve's
sonic landscapes and monolith production have influenced
numerous esteemed acts from Garbage to several other hard-hitting
acts in the last 10 years, yet Curve has never achieved
the commercial success of those who emulate them.
Gift's
aural assault and brutally honest and personal lyrics are
softened by Halliday's gorgeous voice as well as being enhanced
by superb collective production offered up by Halliday,
Garcia and Ben Grosse
The album's first single is : “Hell Above Water” , if you
haven't heard it yet , do it now.
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| Discography |
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EP's
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BLINDFOLD E P
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ten
little girls
i speak your every word
blindfold
no escape from heaven |
produced
by Curve and Steve Osborne
mixed by Alan Moulder at the church |
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FROZEN E P
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coast
is clear
the colour hurts
frozen
zoo |
produced
by curve and steve osborne
mixed by alan moulder
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CHERRY E P
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clipped
die like a dog
galaxy
cherry |
produced
by curve and steve osborne
mixed by alan moulder |
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FAIT ACCOMPLI
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fait
accompli
arms out
sigh |
produced
by curve and flood
mixed by alan moulder |
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FAIT ACCOMPLI
REMIX
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fait
Accompli remix
coast is clear (live version)
die like a dog (live version) |
produced
by curve and flood
mixed by alan moulder |
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HORROR HEAD
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horror
head
falling free
mission from god
today is not the day |
produced
by curve and flood
mixed by alan moulder |
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BLACKERTHREETRACKER
1
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missing
link
on the wheel
triumph |
produced
by curve and flood
missing link mixed by mark spike stent
on the wheel and triumph recorded and mixed at todal by curve
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BLACKERTHREETRACKER
2
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missing
link " screaming bird mix"
rising
half the time |
produced
by curve and flood
missing link mixed by flood and trent reznor
rising mixed by future sound of london
half the time mixed by the drum club |
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SUPERBLASTER
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superblaster
low and behold
nothing without me |
recorded
and produced at todal by curve and flood
mixed by alan moulder |
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PINK GIRL WITH
THE BLUES
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pink
girl with the blues
recovery
black delilah |
recorded
and produced at todal by curve
mixed by alan moulder |
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CHINESE BURN
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chinese
burn (various remixes) |
produced
by curve and steve osborne
mixed by steve osborne, flood and tim simenon, paul van dyk,
lunatic calm, witchman and headcase |
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COMING UP ROSES
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coming
up roses (remixes) |
original
recording made at todal studios by curve additional production
steve osborne
mixed by steve osborne geremy wheatly alan moulder danny sabre
kevin shields talvin singh headcase simenon |
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ALBUMS
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DOPPELGANGER
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Already
yours
Horror head
Wish you dead
Doppelganger
Lillies dying
Ice that melts the tips
Split into fractions
Think and act
fait accompli
Sandpit |
produced
by curve & flood
mixed by alan moulder |
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PUBIC FRUIT
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Ten
Little Girls
I Speak Your Every Word
Blindfold
No Escape From Heaven
Coast Is Clear
The Colour Hurts
Frozen
Zoo
Clipped
Die Like a Dog
Galaxy
Cherry |
produced
by curve and steve osborne
mixed by alan moulder at the church |
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CUCKOO
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Missing
link
Crystal
All of one
Unreadable communication
Turkey crossing
Superblaster
Left of mother
Sweetest pie
cuckoo |
produced
and engineered by curve flood and steve osborne
mixed by alan moulder |
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JOHN PEEL RADIO
SESSIONS
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Ten
little girls
No escape from heaven
The colour hurts
Coast is clear
Die like a dog
Horror head
Arms out
Split into fractions |
two
sessions recorded for the John Peel show recorded live at
bbc studios maida vale |
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COME CLEAN
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Chinese
Burn
Coming Up Roses
Something Familiar
Dog Bone
Alligators Getting Up
Dirty High
Killer Baby
Sweetback
Forgotten Sanity
Cotton Candy
Beyond Reach
Come Clean
Recovery |
produced
by curve tim simenon and steve osborne
mixed by alan moulder tim simenon and curve |
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OPEN DAY AT THE
HATE FEST
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nowhere
the birds they do fly
che
turnaround
you don't know
backwards glance
speed ceash
storm
caught in the alleyway
open day at the hate fest |
made
between 1996 and 2001
produced engineered and recorded at todal by curve
mixed by alan moulder at konksStudios north london except
tracks 5-9-10 mixed by curve at Todal |
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GIFT
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01.
hell above water
02. gift
03. want more need less
04. perish
05. hung up
06. chainmail
07. fly with the high
08. my tiled white floor
09. polaroid
10. bleeding heart |
produced
engineered and recorded at todal studios by curve and ben
grosse
mixed by ben grosse
Rob
Holliday...........additional guitar on tracks 2 6 8 9 10
Monti.............additional drums on tracks 3 4 6 9 10
Alan Moulder............additional guitar track 10
Kevin Shields.........additional guitar on tracks 3 and
4
Geno Lenardo.........additional guitar on track 1 and 5
Flood.............bleeps and anologs on tracks 2 6 8 9
Alan Wilder.........strings and ambience on tracks 9
Ben Grosse.........additional keyboards
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