Studio Works 83 85

Description

Studio Works '83-'85 by So-Do brings together the entire output of this iconoclastic post-punk phenomenon, whose sparse, syncopated arrangements were steeped in a dubbed style that owed more to Dennis Bovell's productions for Orange Juice, the basslines of Jah Wobble from Public Image Limited, or Adrian Sherwood's live dubs for Mark Stewart than even they knew at the time. Because for principal composer Hideshi Akuta, music offered an escape from the existential malaise of small-town life, channeling a melancholic nihilism into tracks like "Kakashi" and "Hashiru" (which translates to "run"), or targeting the inequalities and creeping apathies of the middle classes, as he does on "Get Away" and "Nothing."