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From ashes to Ash…
From the (still warm) ashes of Bauhaus, Daniel Ash rises like the Phoenix, bringing to life this project with the roadie Glenn Campling and later joined by Kevin Haskins, just in time to craft their one and only incredible album “Pop” (Beggars Banquet – 1984).
The title is a divertissemént, as it is misleading from the reality contained in the 9 tracks present. Certainly, the gothic roots central to the parent project Bauhaus are not entirely absent, but here the focal point is the sonic (and vocal) exploration that Ash experiments with in the recording studio (Tones Of Tail is a calibration done on the tails of reel-to-reel tapes); a search that ventures, successfully, to go beyond the popular and “underground” music of the time. Thus, it mixes sounds dear to synth-pop on structures familiar to post-punk, with tones dear to more danceable wave as well as to the cited goth-rock, even venturing into small moments of contemporary classical music.
All of this practically went unnoticed by most at the time, and even today, not many are familiar with the work of Tones Of Tail, also because shortly thereafter, Ash and Haskins reunited with Davi J to create the never too praised Love And Rockets.
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