Dome of Discovery
Review in MUSIC UNCOVERED (USA), 1994

Chris Judge Smith
Dome Of Discovery
1994 - 55:35 - Oedipus Recs

Chris Judge Smith is from England. MU reviewed Democrazy, his first, in VoL 2 No.3. You may remember that Judge and Peter Hammill founded Van der Graaf Generator and that Judge left the band in 1969 to record a solo album. Not counting Democrazy, a col­lection of demo recordings, this is his first solo.

On this release, Judge uses cellos, a four piece trumpet section, a choir, an operatic so­prano, and a guitar player. Judge handles the lead vocals. He likes to call it a “punk orches­tra”.

Except for the way out instrumentation the songs are short, singer/songwriter pieces. The arrangements add a surreal insanity to the lyrics.
HvD