MANDAÏ DISTRIBUTION - independent music distributor
Copyright : 2002-2026
| SEARCH | |
| BROWSE BY | |
|
- Artists - Labels - Formats - Styles - Mid prices - Last items - LP - 10in - 7in - Mandaï Gift Vouchers |
|
| NEWSLETTER | |
|
- Subscribe |
|
| LOGIN | |
|
Sign in or Register. |
|
| CONCERTS | |
| 25/07/2026 La Jungle @ Festiv'Eté | |
| 29/08/2026 La Jungle @ Free Openair 9030 | |
| 17/09/2026 La Jungle @ La Cave aux Poêtes | |
| 18/09/2026 La Jungle @ Les 4 Ecluses | |
| 26/09/2026 Dead Bob @ Het Bos | |
| 07/10/2026 La Jungle @ Belvédère | |
| More concerts ... | |
| NEWS | |
| 16/07/2026 We'll be out of office from the 20th July until the 26th. | |
| 12/07/2026 Holiday time - We should be a less reactive than usual. | |
| 04/07/2026 Update done ! | |
| 10/06/2026 Aylmeric Leroy's book over Canterburry scene still in stock. | |
| More news ... | |
| FEEDBACKS | |
|
d... (Belgium) excellent... |
|
|
P... (Belgium) Tip, discover some more records here. To... |
|
|
d... (Belgium) as always : perfect... |
|
| More feedbacks ... | |
| DESCRIPTION | ||
 | HAYWARD, CHARLES Switch on war Label : Sub Rosa Year : 1991 Format : CD Style : Experimental Availability : In stock Price : 13.50 € - BUY | |
| Description : | Switch on War' a dream state synthesis of nights watching live TV coverage of the 1st Gulf War, the reduction of colours to an electron midnight blue, the long periods of nothing really happening, the contrasting landscapes, (the desert, the city at night, the newsroom), the sudden hurtling through space, through a doorway, a camera on the nose of a missile, the bearing of silent witness slowly turning into complicity and mute acquiescence. At the back of the mind the thought that all this would soon be reduced to snapshot memories, archive, newsreel, history.
Originally devised as a performance for the Club Integral, in South London, at the height of the military activity, 'Switch on War' was a harsh and brutal response to the media coverage of the conflict informed by a grotesque and disconcerting anti-music aesthetic heavily influenced by the disorientating, overloaded sound world of Space Invaders arcades. The CD version was recorded binaurally some weeks later, live in a disused morgue, as the war came to its stalemate close. By this time the anger had a bleak streak of sadness, a distorted expressionist requiem. This CD had the life expectancy of a magazine article or some such, no more than a year and it would be archive, a mere souvenir. Charles Hayward | |
| FROM THE SAME ARTIST | |||
|
HAYWARD, CHARLES - Switch on war
Label : Sub Rosa Format : CD - Price : 13.50 € | ||
| BEST SELLING | |||
LEROY, AYMERIC Legends in their Own Lunchtime : An Exploration of the Canterburry Scene (Book) - 84.00 € Cuneiform Records |
OLSSON, HENRIK Antumbra Ensemble (CD) - 14.70 € Cuneiform Records |
||
CURLEW North America (CD) - 14.70 € Cuneiform Records |
V/A Spectra Machina : A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol.1 (CD) - 16.60 € Sub Rosa |
||
| NEW RELEASES | |||
HYPER GAL Our Hyper (LP) - 29.90 € Skin Graft Records |
V/A Naked Soul / Flatbed (LP) - 15.90 € Modern City Records |
||
V/A ErikM & Pierre Bastien : Observations (LP) - 20.00 € Sub Rosa |
KOTIC, PETR Many Many Women (2xCD) - 18.60 € Sub Rosa |
||
ZU Carboniferous (CD) - 13.50 € Subsounds Records |
ZU Igneo (LP) - 19.60 € Subsounds Records |
||
AIDS WOLF Harsh Human Style (CD) - 12.50 € Skin Graft Records |
DAVID VOTRE CHAZAM All the Time (Original Soundtrack) (CD) - 12.40 € Cheap Satanism Records |
||
| -MORE NEW RELEASE- | |||