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| - The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk band. A trio formed in 1978, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton. Stuart Moxham wrote the majority of the band's songs, and his writing was often deceptively simple-seeming, giving the YMG's classic work a uniquely fragile yet powerful quality. Centered around a weird mix of Philip's steel-hawser bass, Stuart's punchy rhythm guitar (played on a rare John Lennon style blonde Rickenbacker) and haunting, rhythmic Galanti electric organ lines, with Statton's vocals tentatively suspended in the space between them, their sound was unlike anything anyone had heard before. Stuart Moxham's girlfriend Wendy Smith lent Stuart the money to buy the Rickenbacker. Wendy, an art student in Cardiff at the time the YMG's were forming, also designed cover art for several singles and albums by Weekend and The Gist, Stuart Moxham's later project. Wendy also accompanied the band on their tour of the US, and shot a set of seminal photographs of the band. Very early in their existence, there was a fourth member of the band, Peter Joyce, Phil and Stuart Moxham's cousin. Joyce was a Telephone Engineer and an electronics whizz, who had made his own synthesiser from a kit. This was a small touch-sensitive keyboard with an attache case-like box of circuitry, with several knobs and dials. It made sounds similar to Eno's synths in the early Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, who employed similar 'low-tech/high-tech' electronics. The YMGs used tape recordings of Peter's home-made drum machine, since they had no desire to have a drummer. They were also interested in state of the art effects devices such as ring modulators and reverb units, with the emphasis always on simplicity. Their first vinyl release was on the compilation LP Is The War Over? on Cardiff DIY label, Z Block Records, in October 1979. While signed to UK independent record label, Rough Trade Records the YMGs released two EPs, Final Day and Testcard, and one acclaimed and very influential album, Colossal Youth The band toured and played in the US and Europe, and played in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, Berlin. Touring companions included the band Cabaret Voltaire. Musical influences included Eno, Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Can and others. The band were acquainted with Scritti Politti, the band of Cardiff native Green Gartside, and ended up signed to the same label, Rough Trade Records. It was revealed in the 2003 book Journals that the band were, along with Scotland's The Vaselines, Kurt Cobain's favourite band. Courtney Love's band Hole covered the Young Marble Giants track "Credit In The Straight World". Peter Buck of R.E.M. is another self-confessed fan of the YMGs. Stuart Moxham was a fan of Manchester guitarist Vini Reilly's early work, and was also very interested in Dub Reggae. (en)
- Young Marble Giants is een New Wave groep uit het begin van de jaren 80 die zich van de massa onderscheidden door een vrouw op zang te nemen. Het trio Young Marble Giants heeft slechts enkele jaren bestaan, toch hebben ze vele musici geïnspireerd met hun muziek. Ook opmerkelijk is dat ze geen drummer hebben. (nl)
- Young Marble Giants var ett postpunkband från Cardiff. Trion bildades 1978 och deras minimalistiska inspelningar består framför allt av bröderna Philip and Stuart Moxham på gitarr och bas, Alison Statton på sång och en trummaskin. Philip Moxham fortsatte senare som basist i The Communards och Everything But The Girl tillsammans med Ben Watt och Tracey Thorn. Han medverkade på deras fjärde album Idlewild. I början av 2003 återförenades Statton och bröderna Moxham för en specialinspelning organiserad av BBC Radio Wales. De framförde då en ny sång, "Alright". De höll även en återföreningskonser i Hay-on-Wye den 27 maj 2007, som del i Hay-on-Wye-festivalen. (sv)
- Young Marble Giants era una banda post-punk compuesta por tres integrantes y formada en Cardiff, Gales. La banda se formó cuando Stuart Moxham volvió al sur de Gales, tras haber vivido en Alemania. Stuart y Phil, se unieron a bandas de covers, una de las cuales, True Wheel contaba con la vocalista Alison Statton. Stuart decidió formar un nuevo grupo, y reclutó a su hermano y a Alison. Grabaron una maqueta en 1979, la cual llevaba versiones poco pulidas de los temas que después aparecerían en el álbum Colossal Youth. La maqueta fue puesta en venta en el año 2000 en la colección, Salad Days, bajo la marca de Vinyl Japan. El nombre (Young Marble Giants) proviene de un libro que describe a los kouros, antiguas estatuas griegas que representaban la juventud. El carácter anticomercial de la banda hizo que ésta nunca persiguiera el lujo ni la fama, aún cuando lograron una buena cantidad de seguidores. Una de las frases que traduce este espíritu es la de Stuart Moxhan en 1980 "Young Marble Giants es una reacción a todo lo exitoso de nuestros días". Aún siendo poco frecuentes las presentaciones en vivo, hicieron una gira por América y Europa. Se separaron, debido a diferencias musicales y tensiones, tras la gira americana. Los miembros de la banda siguieron tocando, ocasionalmente juntos, y planearon una reunión en Marzo de 2001 para coincidir con el aniversario número 25 de Rough Trade, sin embargo, no lo llevaron a cabo. Y aún cuando es difícil conseguir sus discos, siguen siendo de gran influencia. Kurt Cobain, de Nirvana, fue uno de sus más famosos admiradores. Gruff Rhys, de Super Furry Animals los ha entrevistado y Hole hizo una versión de Credit In The Straight World en su álbum Live Through This. Categoría:Grupos de música del Reino Unido Categoría:Grupos de indie pop Categoría:Grupos de la década de 1970 Categoría:Grupos de la década de 1980 (es)
- I Young Marble Giants sono stati una rock band originaria di Cardiff, nel Galles. Pur avendo inciso un unico album, Colossal Youth, uscito nel 1980, il trio gallese si è guadagnato un posto nella storia del rock come precursore di quel sottogenere musicale che si sarebbe chiamato post punk. Composto di 25 brevi pezzi, il disco è caratterizzato da una strumentazione singolare: da un lato l'organo elettrico di Stuart Moxham, rari interventi della chitarra, e la voce glaciale e distante della cantante Alison Statton; dall'altra la sessione ritmica (che nell'economia dei brani ha un ruolo di primissimo piano), affidata al basso di Philip Moxham, suonato con una tecnica molto simile allo slapping, e alla drum machine. Diversi pezzi del disco sono strumentali. (it)
- Young Marble Giants ist eine Post-Punk-Band aus Cardiff. (de)
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| - Spike, Alison Statton, Scritti Politti, The Slits, Everything But The Girl, Kurt Cobain, Hole, Courtney Love, The Communards, Stuart Moxham, Weekend, Working Week, Table Table, Cloak and Dagger, The True Wheel, Reptile Ranch, The Good Gazelles, Andrew Moxham, The Marine Girls, REM, David Thomas and the Pedestrians, Pere Ubu (en)
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| - The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk band. A trio formed in 1978, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton. Stuart Moxham wrote the majority of the band's songs, and his writing was often deceptively simple-seeming, giving the YMG's classic work a uniquely fragile yet powerful quality. Centered around a weird mix of Philip's steel-hawser bass, Stuart's punchy rhythm guitar (played on a rare John Lennon style blonde Rickenbacker) and haunting, rhythmic Galanti electric organ lines, with Statton's vocals tentatively suspended in the space between them, their sound was unlike anything anyone had heard before. Stuart Moxham's girlfriend Wendy Smith lent Stuart the money to buy the Rickenbacker. Wendy, an art student in Cardiff at the time the YMG's were forming, also designed cover art for several singles and albums by Weekend and The Gist, Stuart Moxham's later project. Wendy also accompanied the band on their tour of the US, and shot a set of seminal photographs of the band. (en)
- Young Marble Giants is een New Wave groep uit het begin van de jaren 80 die zich van de massa onderscheidden door een vrouw op zang te nemen. Het trio Young Marble Giants heeft slechts enkele jaren bestaan, toch hebben ze vele musici geïnspireerd met hun muziek. Ook opmerkelijk is dat ze geen drummer hebben. (nl)
- Young Marble Giants var ett postpunkband från Cardiff. (sv)
- Young Marble Giants era una banda post-punk compuesta por tres integrantes y formada en Cardiff, Gales. La banda se formó cuando Stuart Moxham volvió al sur de Gales, tras haber vivido en Alemania. (es)
- I Young Marble Giants sono stati una rock band originaria di Cardiff, nel Galles. (it)
- Young Marble Giants ist eine Post-Punk-Band aus Cardiff. (de)
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