Colin Newman

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Colin Newman
Crammed, 4AD, Beggars Banquet Records, Sentient Sonics

Colin John Newman (born 16 September 1954) is an English musician, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as the primary vocalist and songwriter for the post-punk band Wire.

Early life

Newman was born in

Jewish.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Music career

In 1976 Newman formed the band

4AD Records label in 1981. A third LP, Not To, which along with original compositions reworked a number of tracks originally written for Wire, was released in 1982 on 4AD.[12]

Following this, Newman travelled to India to collect sound recordings before rejoining Wire in 1984.[13]

Colin Newman, 2011

In 1986, another solo LP,

Commercial Suicide, was released on the Crammed Discs label. A massive change in style for Newman, the album is reflective and highly orchestrated. His next LP, It Seems, followed a similar path, albeit with far more use of sequencers – something Newman would continue to work with for a number of years. Both Crammed albums featured Malka Spigel who has been included in all subsequent solo and collaborative work.[2]

Newman's only other de facto solo outing was the mid-1990s release

Swim ~, the first pressing of the album was packaged with a free copy of Newman's four-track Voice EP. Despite Newman's name being on the cover, he says these releases, along with several others on Swim ~, are essentially collaborative efforts with his wife and musical partner, Malka Spigel.[2]

Newman's song "Alone" made an appearance in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs in a scene in which the character Buffalo Bill is sewing in a basement. This song was also covered by This Mortal Coil on their Filigree & Shadow LP.[2]

Newman has produced, arranged and mixed various other artists. These include

Parade Ground, Minimal Compact, Alain Bashung, Silo & Lobe on the production and arrangement side and Hawkwind, Dead Man Ray, Fennesz, Polysics and Celebricide on the mix side. He has also mixed all new Wire
releases since 2000.

Since 2004, Newman has worked with Githead, a quartet composed of Newman, Spigel, Max Franken, and Robin Rimbaud. Newman has run the Pinkflag label for Wire since 2000. Immersion re-emerged in 2016. Newman also re-released his first three solo albums on Swim ~ sub-label Sentient Sonics in 2016.

Discography

Solo albums

Solo singles and EPs

  • "B" (Beggars Banquet, 1980)
  • "Inventory" (Beggars Banquet, 1981)
  • "We Means We Starts" (4AD, 1982)
  • CN1 (4AD, 1982)
  • "Feigned Hearing" (Crammed, 1986)
  • "Interview" (Crammed, 1987)
  • "Better Later Than Never" (Crammed, 1988)
  • Voice (Swim ~, 1994)

Collaborative albums and mini albums

  • Malka Spigel Rosh Ballata (Swim ~, 1993)
  • Oracle
    Tree (Swim ~, 1994)
  • immersion
    Oscillating (Swim ~, 1994)
  • immersion
    Full Immersion (Remixes) (Swim ~, 1995)
  • Malka Spigel Hide (Swim ~, 1997)
  • Malka Spigel My Pet Fish (Swim ~, 1997)
  • immersion
    Low Impact (Swim ~, 1999)
  • Spigel * Newman * Colin * Malka Live (Swim ~, 1999)
  • Githead Headgit (Swim ~, 2004)
  • Githead Profile (Swim ~, 2005)
  • Githead Art Pop (Swim ~, 2007)
  • Githead Landing (Swim ~, 2009)
  • Malka Spigel Every Day is Like The First Day (Swim ~, 2012)
  • Malka Spigel Gliding (Swim ~, 2014)
  • Githead Waiting For A Sign (Swim ~, 2014)
  • immersion
    Analogue Creatures Living On an Island (Swim ~, 2016)
  • immersion
    Sleepless (Swim ~, 2018)
  • immersion
    Nanocluster Vol. 1 (Swim ~, 2021)

References

  1. ^ "Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel". Beginnings podcast. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Artist Biography by Wilson Neate". allmusic.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. ^ Colin Newman | The National Library of Israel National Library of Israel https://www.nli.org.il › a-topic Colin Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as the primary vocalist and songwriter for the post-punk band Wire ...
  4. ^ how 1970s stars were deprived of their fair share Financial Times https://www.ft.com › Arts › Life & Arts › Music 16 Apr 2021 — ... Colin Newman. In 2001, Newman sold the Trojan catalogue to the London label Sanctuary Records for £10.25m; six years later, Sanctuary itself ...
  5. ^ Depedro, Geva Alon showcase musical pairings at ... Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com › Israel News 5 Dec 2022 — In addition to Zavala, the imports include Florida-based producer DJ Cole; and British musician, record producer and record-label owner Colin ...
  6. ^ Band Musicians JewProm http://jewprom.50webs.com › sheet092 American musician, songwriter, Jewish maternal grandparent, ??? wiki · Aftershock · Adam Dutkiewicz · Img, American guitarist, backup vocalist, ??? Tobias ...
  7. ^ Just keep swimming: Malka Spigel revisits her 1993 ... Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com › Israel News 25 Oct 2018 — ... producer and life partner, Colin Newman (of the British post-punk band ... [Newman] knows the production gear inside and out, and best of all ...
  8. ^ Israeli Singer Living in London Creates Beautiful Small Art Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com › Jewish World 30 Sept 2012 — ... album, “Every Day is Like the First Day”), and also sang some songs, backed by her husband Colin Newman and keyboardist Gil Luz. In Tel Aviv ...
  9. ^ Bibliography for Jewish Communities in the UK, Ireland & ... JewishGen https://www.jewishgen.org › jcr-uk › local_research "British Jews: Their Biographical Record" [The Jewish Year Book 2006 ... Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians: ...
  10. ^ "Turning Points: Wire's Colin Newman". crackmagazine.net. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  11. ^ "COLIN NEWMAN A-Z". headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  12. ^ Ham, Robert. "Wire's Colin Newman on the Music That Made Him". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  13. ISBN 9780857120410
    . Retrieved 9 April 2020.

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