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ZAHGURIM

INFORMACIA

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Years active:

1983-Present

Genres:

Industrial, Electro, 

Noise, Avant-Garde,

Dark Ambient, Experimental

Origin:

London, Brighton

Names:

Paul Ackerley
William Vince
Andrew Wadsworth

Phil Sparling

George Ackerley
 

Labels:

Klanggalerie

Mannequin

Berlin Atonal

nostalgie de la boue

Discography:

Associated acts:

LEFT HAND RIGHT HAND, PAUL ACKERLEY

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ZAHGURIM FORMED IN 1983 AS SILENT WITNESS AND WERE EARLY CONTRIBUTORS TO THE INDUSTRIAL MUSIC SCENE, ASSOCIATING WITH THE TEMPLE OV PSYCHICK YOUTH. ZAHGURIM WERE INVITED BY KONNEX RECORDS PRODUCER MANFRED SCHIEK TO RECORD FOR HIS SUB-LABEL, BERLIN ATONAL AND BY BERLIN ATONAL FESTIVAL FOUNDER DIMITRI HEGEMANN TO PERFORM AT HIS SONIC ART EVENT WITH TEST DEPT., LAIBACH, ART DECO AND OTHERS. 'MORAL REARMAMENT' WAS RECORDED AT THE OLD AMBULANCE STATION, OLD KENT ROAD IN 1985 BY BOURBONESE QUALK'S SIMON CRAB & JULIAN GILBERT. IT REMAINS ZAHGURIM'S ONLY VINYL RELEASE, UNTIL WALTER ROBOTKA'S KLANGGALERIE SPECIAL EDITION CD WITH ADDITIONAL 

MATERIAL WAS PRESSED BY MANNEQUIN. ZAHGURIM PLAYED LIVE AT KLANG 25, WIEN IN 2018 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR 1985 PERFORMANCE AT THE 'FABULOUS FEAST OF FLOWERING LIGHT' ALONGSIDE PSYCHIC TV, KUKL (PRE-SUGARCUBES BJORK), DEREK JARMAN & MICHA BERGESE'S MANTIS DANCE. FOUNDING MEMBER ANDREW WADSWORTH LEFT AT THIS POINT TO LIVE WITH WILLIAM BURROUGHS IN KANSAS.

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ARTWORK

Berlin Atonal

Fabulous Feast of Flowering Light

Le Petit Mort

Raday Klub

Selected Show List

17 Feb 85     Ballhaus Tiergarten   Berlin, Germany            Berlin Atonal 

19 May 85    Hammersmith Palais    London, UK                  Fabulous Feast of                                                                      Flowering Light

25 Jul 85    All Saints Centre     Lewes, UK

15 Jun 18     Replugged            Wien, Austria                 Klang 25

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CONTACT

Contact:

paulackerley@icloud.com

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