Dalis Car was a musical group formed in 1984 by Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy (musician)

Peter John Murphy is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria...

 (vocalist), Mick Karn

Mick Karn

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 (bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist) and Paul Vincent Lawford (rhythm construction). The band was formed soon after Murphy and Karn left their former bands (Bauhaus

Bauhaus (band)

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 and Japan

Japan (band)

Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...

, respectively). Initially, they recorded one album

Album

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, The Waking Hour (UK #84), and released one single

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, "The Judgement is the Mirror" (UK #66). The cover of the album features a detail from Maxfield Parrish

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's seminal painting Daybreak

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.

The recording of the album took place in unusual circumstances, as neither Karn nor Murphy spent much time together in the recording studio

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, preferring to send tapes back and forth between each other, to work on alone.

In August 2010, Peter Murphy announced on Twitter

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 that he and Karn were planning to head into the studio in September to begin work on the second Dali's Car album. The project was cut short, however, as Karn had recently been diagnosed with cancer. He died on 4 January 2011. According to Karn's website, five of the tracks they did record will be released in 2011 as an EP

Extended play

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 entitled InGladAloneness. The tracks were mastered by Murphy in Istanbul and the artwork for the EP, created by Murphy with Thomas Bak, is being finalised. The track listing is as follows:

1) "King Cloud"

2) "Sound Cloud"

3) "Artemis"

4) "Subhanallah"

5) "If You Go Away"

Personnel:

Mick Karn (bass, bass clarinet, additional guitars)

Peter Murphy - lyrics and vocals, keyboards

Additional musicians:

Steve Jansen (drums), Jakko M Jakszyk (nylon acoustic, electric guitars, and gu zheng), Theo Travis (saxophones and flute), Sengul (vocals on "Subhanallah"), Gill Morley (violin), Ellen Blair (violin and viola), Pete Lockett (percussion), Paul Lawford (congas), Steve D'Agostino (additional keyboards).

"Artemis" was made available as a download through the Burning Shed MK Music store on Sunday July 24th, to commemorate what would have been Karn’s 53rd birthday. The song is an updated version of the song as it appeared on "The Waking Hour", with added vocals by Murphy, drums by Jansen, and guitar by Jakszyk.

Albums

• The Waking Hour (1984) - UK
  UK Albums Chart
  The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
  
  #84

1. "Dalis Car" - 5:12 (music Mick Karn, lyrics Peter Murphy)
2. "His Box" - 4:43 (music Mick Karn, lyrics Peter Murphy)
3. "Cornwall Stone" - 5:19 (music Mick Karn, lyrics Peter Murphy)
4. "Artemis" - 4:38 (music Mick Karn)
5. "Create and Melt" - 5:37 (music Mick Karn, lyrics Peter Murphy)
6. "Moonlife" - 4:57 (music traditional, lyrics Peter Murphy)
7. "The Judgement Is the Mirror" - 4:38 (music Mick Karn, lyrics Peter Murphy)

External links

• Mick Sinclair 1985 Interview with Peter Murphy and Mick Karn