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'Prey'/'Allelujah'
Enhanced CD release
Alan Wilder is pleased to announce, due to popular demand, a limited edition CD release of 'Prey'/'Allelujah' on 25th February 2008.
This enhanced CD package includes 'Prey' mixes, the reduction mix of 'Allelujah' plus a never-before-seen film for 'Allelujah', directed by Dmitry Semenov. It will also be accompanied by an exclusive downloadable booklet featuring video stills, 'subHuman' art and commentary from Alan Wilder, Hepzibah Sessa and Dmitry Semenov.
The CD is being issued, with the support of Mute, through Russian label Gala Records in conjunction with www.depeche-mode.ru and will be exclusively available on-line only via their website. We highly recommend that you get your orders in quickly because only a limited number of these CDs are being produced.
Taken from 2007's 'subHuman' album released by Mute, 'Prey' features the evocative vocal style and guitar talents of bluesman Joe Richardson, while 'Allelujah' introduces Carla Trevaskis, whose unusual atmospheric voice simultaneously contrasts and compliments Richardson.
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RECOIL was born in 1986 as a two-track experimental EP put together by Alan Wilder. An album, 'HYDROLOGY', soon followed in 1988 and both were eventually re-issued by Mute Records on CD as 'HYDROLOGY PLUS 1+2'. These early RECOIL recordings revealed Alan's position as a pioneer in the newly emerging world of sampling technology.
Soon after recording the most successful DEPECHE MODE album to date - 'VIOLATOR' - he returned to the RECOIL project for his next album, 'BLOODLINE', in 1991. Guest vocalists were recruited for the first time with contributions from Douglas McCarthy, Toni Halliday and Moby, helping to produce an album that demonstrated his ability to concoct slow-burning soundscapes drenched in drowsy paranoia.
'BLOODLINE' also marked the first RECOIL single, a cover of Alex Harvey's song 'FAITH HEALER', as well as the innovative 'ELECTRO BLUES FOR BUKKA WHITE'.
Between 1992-93 Alan resumed his DEPECHE MODE duties as the band recorded the album 'SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION'. Released to universal acclaim, it topped the charts in the UK, USA, Germany and a host of other countries. Although the group had reached the pinnacle of success, in June 1995, having spent 14 years as an integral part of one of the most popular and influential bands the UK has ever produced, Alan made the difficult but inevitable decision to leave DEPECHE MODE.
Free from group commitments, in 1996, he began work in his own studio, 'The Thin Line', gradually piecing together the unnerving scores that would eventually reveal RECOIL's next album 'UNSOUND METHODS'.
Featuring Maggie Estep, Siobhan Lynch, the reappearance of Douglas McCarthy, and Hildia Cambell, the album's more organic style incorporated every imaginable musical genre from Trip-Hop to Gospel whilst dealing with the subject of obsession in all its manifestations.
In 2000, RECOIL gave us 'LIQUID' which this time utilised the unique qualities of internationally acclaimed singer Diamanda Galás, 1940's Gospel crooners The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, and New York spoken-word performers Nicole Blackman and Samantha Coerbell.
The worldwide music press received the 'LIQUID' album with a host of glowing reviews and Alan Wilder was awarded the cv Charles Cros Grand Prix 2000.
After a 6 year break from recording, Alan Wilder returned with RECOIL's 5th studio album entitled 'SUBHUMAN'.
"We seem to have learnt nothing from past experiences and our so called 'civilised' world is still awash with personal and global atrocities. From suicide bombings in the Middle East, to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; from the homophobic rhetoric of the Christian fundamentalist preacher, to the activities of Western governments engaged in their 'war on terror'. We are all 'subhuman' in somebody's eyes."