Name: Le Personnage PrincipalL Eest Un Peuple Isole
Brand: Benjamin Lew

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

STRLP-027

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-06-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Rush Hour Music B.V.

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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

Artist

Benjamin Lew

Genre US

Label US

New Wave / Post Punk

“Benjamin Lew was an enlightened amateur, in the noble and almost Renaissance-like sense of the word: he dabbled with equal grace in photography, writing, visual arts ... and worked part-time as a cocktail mixer in a tropical bar which was one of the favourite watering holes of Brussels’ thriving artistic community of the early ‘80s. Tuxedomoon had just moved to Brussels, and Steven Brown was among the many musicians, designers &amp; artists who patronized the bar. Benjamin had a secret passion: he wasn’t a musician, but had acquired a small analog computer, with which he had started creating these strange mysterious little pieces. Benjamin played them to Steven and asked him if he’d agree to record with him. Steven was taken with them and accepted. The Douzième Journée was largely created in the studio by both protagonists, with the help of Gilles Martin and myself, in the spring of ‘82. Listening to his albums (he went on to record four more with Crammed) is like embarking on a dream journey to the Sahara or the Far East. You’d think that some of the pieces feature non-European musicians or samples but: no... this is just Benjamin’s imagination, his synths, and his friends…”

Le Personnage PrincipalL Eest Un Peuple Isole

Music US