wire: the solo projects

the AC Marias album is such an underappreciated gem, although i would gladly lop the canned heat cover off my CD version

(imagine if CD bonus tracks were watermarked so you could tell your CD player to ignore the fuck out of them)

the drop / so single is even better if less breezy

I just found Dome 3&4 at Tower on sale for $11.99. I haven't been able to find 1&2 anywhere yet. 3 is pretty amazing. It's certainly a precedent to a lot of the experimental electronica and post-rock of the mid-90s like Main, Oval, Disco Inferno, etc. Recorded 1980-81, the only influences I can hear is Eno's ambient stuff, the instrumental cuts from Bowie's Low, and Eno/Byrne's My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, with its sampled rhythms and ghostly, floating processed voices (who was A.M.C.?). Maybe a little contemporary Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle too.

I'm listening to Dome 3 today for the first time in a while and I'm ready to proclaim it the greatest of all Wire-related projects (outside of Wire). The other Dome albums are fine but this one is just perfect. Weird we've never polled them here. If we did, this one in a landslide.

Listened to The Shivering Man as such from start to finish now – goddamm that is a complete and wonderful thing.

Hi - I am helping a friend write and prepare materials for a Wire (band and solo) family/related compendium being created through a Detroit-based publishing house.
Hoping to find a die-hard fan/collector with all the answers, we are reaching out, looking for info on the origins of a 2010 Bruce Gilbert song "Epitaph for
Henran Brenlar" on "The Shivering Man" album. Is Henran Brenlar a real person, possibly an art school colleague?

My guess: it's an anagram of LN HE RAN BARREN. LN is Lewis/Newman. He's saying the later Wire songs are not as well-written as the earlier ones.

it’s a composite/mashup of the names of two people Gilbert admires - Brendan Behan and err someone else I’ve forgotten (a quick search was no help)

Henry Miller

guessing

Asking Bruce Gilbert might be the way to go with this one.