ZAHGURIM
INFORMACIA
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Years active:
1983-Present
Website:
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
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.
BACKGROUND
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
