DALI'S CAR - The Waking Hour (1984)

~Tracklist:
01-Dalis Car
02-His Box
03-Cornwall Stone
04-Artemis
05-Create and Melt
06-Moodlife
07-The Judgement is the Mirror (also made as single)

~Info:
Dali's Car was a short-lived project that Peter did post-Bauhaus and pre-solo work. They lasted for 1 album until they split, citing "musical incompatability".

The album was called "The Waking Hour" — the CD is catalogue BBL52CD on Beggars Banquet (1988, UK); the LP is DOX LP 1 on Paradox/Beggars Banquet (1984, UK).

The music/instruments were by Mick Karn (ex-Japan) with lyrics/vocals by Peter. Paul Vincent Lawford is also credited with "rhythm construction".

While not especially typical of Peter's solo work, it is nonetheless an interesting album. It is somewhat avant-garde.

Review2:

Dali's Car is a musical group formed in 1984 by Peter Murphy (vocalist) and Mick Karn (bass guitarist, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist) shortly after they left their former bands (Bauhaus and Japan, respectively). They recorded one album, The Waking Hour, and released one single, "The Judgement Is the Mirror".

The recording of the album took place in unusual circumstances, as neither Karn nor Murphy spent much (if any) time together in the recording studio, preferring to send tapes back and forth between each another, to work on alone.

The album, a dark but poppy collection of keyboard and bass-driven songs, was a commercial failure and the duo soon disbanded. Of Dali's Car and their unusual working arrangements, Karn has since said that there are "no plans for a reunion".

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