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Electric Sound of Joy were a rock band formed in Chesterfield in 1994 They released an eponymous album in 1999 and also recorded a Peel Session. ==History== The band was formed in 1994 by Greg Kurcewicz (vocals/Guitar), Ben Rodgers (keyboards), Scott Nicholas (guitar), Dan Hayhurst (bass guitar), and John Revill (drums).〔Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 726〕 After two limited-edition singles on the Earworm label and a November 1997 session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show,〔"(Electric Sound of Joy )", Peel Session details, ''Keeping It Peel'', BBC〕 Kurcewicz left the band in 1998, and they shifted from Televisionesque rock to a more electronic instrumental sound that has been compared to Cluster and Stereolab.〔〔 The band were described by the ''NME'': "Like Air, they manage to be chic and cheerful, allowing a potentially icy groove to melt into a fantastic fanfare of sizzling synths",〔"(London Highbury Grange )", ''NME'', 9 September 1998〕 and by ''The Independent'' as "dark, broody instrumentals with a distinctive hook; spiritually morose, yet full of zeal and strangely uplifting".〔Ilic, Velimir Pavle (1998) "(Review: Living in a bottle )", ''The Independent'', 6 May 1998〕 They performed at the Reading Festival in 1998 and signed to Foundry Records the same year. After an EP in late 1998, the band's eponymous debut album was issued in September 1999.〔 The band also remixed Hefner's "The Greedy Ugly People", which was released on a 7-inch single and on the expanded edition of ''We Love the City''. Kurcewicz and Hayhurst later collaborated with The Sonic Catering Band, and Hayhurst played on the latter's live album ''Live in Linz - Popkorn'' (2008). he also played in Echoboy, They Came from the Stars, and Sculpture. Greg Kurcewicz still works as a musician on various projects, a fine artist and curator of artists' film. Scott Nicholas produces moody lo-fi psychedelic folk-rock under the Venus Willendorf moniker. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electric Sound of Joy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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