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Dome of Discovery
Review in SOFA SOUND, April 1994
JUDGE
for Yourself!
There is one new release which we are stocking and in which you may be interested. Many of you will be familiar with the name of Chris Judge Smith, co-founder of VdGG and writer of such fabulous songs as ‘Been Alone so Long’ and ‘Four Pails’ as well as librettist for ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’. Some of you will have copies of ‘Democrazy’, his collection of demo recordings made in the elusive chase for A Deal over the years.
Judge remains, as he has always been, a fascinating character and writer whose wit has ever been, perhaps, too elusive and eccentric for The Music Biz to accommodate.
For the last couple of years he has been working on his first “proper” CD. This has involved setting up his own studio and learning to operate it. Since Judge has ever been a man for first principles he also sampled ALL the instruments he used for the recordings himself rather than relying on someone else’s efforts.
The mixing of the songs was done by David Lord here at Terra Incognita. ‘Dome of Discovery’ is the result, on Oedipus Recs. This is not conventional rock music by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s commended to lovers of the bizarrely independent! Judge is now, I understand, hard at work on a new musical.