Name: This Heat
Brand: This Heat

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2006-02-06

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Shellshock

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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This Heat

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New Wave / Post Punk

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In 1976, Charles Hayward of Gong (and Phil Manzanera's Quiet Sun) joined with Charles Bullen and Gareth Williams to form This Heat. Though arising from art-rock and the British school of fusion jazz, This Heat quickly developed into an experimental band largely dependent on tape loops and production tricks.
This Heat dissolved in 1982-1983 following a European tour in which Trefor Goronwy replaced Gareth Williams who had recently departed the band. Charles Bullen went on to solo work and put together his own studio in the late 1980s; he has recently issued a CD under his own name.
Charles Hayward decided to keep up public performances and formed The Camberwell Now along with Trefor Goronwy and several others.

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this heat emerged in early 1976, known as the most left-field and most hard-edged band in the country, their concerts attracted experimental, punk and new wave audiences alike. working for years in their own, now legendary, studio in brixton (cold storage) their material evolved, grew and became increasingly intense. their first lp, with its distinctive blue and yellow sleeve, appeared on david cunningham's piano label in 1979 and acquired immediate iconic status, and over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that would take another 15 years to reappear. 'this heat' was a landmark release - music without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. and it hasn't aged. the cd version of the lp (deleted for 14 years currently fetches 150-200). this re-mastered and repackaged edition is the first of a series of this heat reissues from rer megacorp.

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