Stano (The Protagenist 28 Nien)

Stano in 1983

Bio:

John Stanley (b.1960) AKA Stano was a member of The Threat before pursuing a solo career in improvised, experimental/electronic music. He received a lot of early coverage in Vox magazine, who published his poetry and eventually released his debut single in 1982. Rather than perform live, Stano experimented in private, collaborating with a number of different musicians including Roger Doyle, Michael O'Shea and Daniel Figgis, creating the recordings that would form his debut LP. By the time of it's release in 1983, he had reputedly made only one solo live appearance, at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. The debut LP "Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft" was released in September 1983 on Scoff Records in Ireland, imported into the UK by Rough Trade. Stano spent a year in London during 1985-86 where he performed live (with Nigel Rolfe and the Virgin Prunes?) His debut LP was given a full UK release by Magnet Records in 1985, followed by an EP on Food Records, and he signed a deal with Dossier Records in Germany before returning to Dublin.

Subsequent releases on the German Dossier label helped raise his international profile in the '80s. His third LP, "Daphne Will Be Born Again", recorded entirely on Fairlight was a departure, and was panned by Graham Linehan in Hot Press, while his fourth "Only" (1989), recorded for Mother Records and more rock oriented, was considered a disappointment by some. His touring band for this LP included ex members of The Experiment. His next album "Wreckage" (1994) was recorded partly in collaboration with Colm O'Coisoig of My Bloody Valentine.

Music directed by Vinnie Murphy, brother of Larry Murphy of Chant! Chant! Chant!. Here is the Vox advert.

side one:
White Fireld (in Isis)
Seance of a Kondalike
Blue Glide
Out of the Dark, Into the Dawn
Young Colatic Chold
Fox

side two:
Melting Grey
Whale
Emma Wild
A Dead Rose
Vixen
Room

Notes:
Recorded with Michael O'Shea and Bintii (Daniel Figgis).

tracks: Iwanseenowall

side one:
Iwanseenowall (White Fields)
Cry Across The Sea

side two:
Out of the Dark into the Dawn
Ascendancy

Notes: A1 and B1 from Scoff single, possibly remixed. A2 and B2 from the then forthcoming "Seducing Decadence in Morning Treecrash" LP.

side one
Hayley (Journey's Outside My Body) (4:20)
S-Tapes (Within The Jolt) (4:05)
Ascendancy (6:11)
Destruction 28 Nein (5:45)

side two
Singular In The Dark (5:36)
Cry Across The Sea (5:30)
When You're In Love (Bathroom) (3:54)
Chaplin (5:22)

tracks: Chaplin II

 

tracks: September in the Killing Rain

side one:
Dream and the Little Girl Lost
Majestic of Majesty
Recoil (Kings in the Wood Brick Room)
Two Hands Push The Sky

side two:
Winter in Summer Time
Beat the Sky Drum
September in the Killing Rain

side one:
Yellow Canary Car
When Life Slips Away
Sweet Disposition

side two:
Wreckage
Kissing Trees
Just Eve

Features many guest musicians: Anto Brennan (guitar), Robbie Brennan (drums), Sean Davitt (percussion), Dik (guitar background effects), Ken Drakeford (bass/keyboards), Seamus Fitzgerald (bass), Gerry Leonard (guitar), Deke O'Brien (drum programming), Denis Rusk (ex Strougers, etc, guitar), Jerome Rimson (bass), Donal Teskey (guitar/drum programming) and Yasmina (backing vocals).

track (credited to Wreckage / Stano): Chase

tracks:
Drain Puppet
Pearls
Bleeding Horse
Red Blue Green
Cage
Land Slips The Mind
1000 To Now
Fire Caught In Rain
Brook
Joy
Mirror Green Tin Wound
Steps Into
Distance
Whatever Way You Are

tracks:
Reverse Presence (2006)
Eleven Small Birds (2006)
All Clouds
Dog Star Man
Pearls
Red Blue Green
Bleeding Horse
Kissing Trees
When Life Slips Away
Fire Caught in Rain
Daphne will be Born again
Majestic of Majesty
Ascendency
The Bathroom
Out of the Dark, into the Dawn
A Dead Rose
Vixen
Room

tracks:
Chapelizard
Fatal
Berlin Spider
Yellow Bittern
Sleep Robin
Green Rocks of Turkey Elektronik
Ghost Pippet Red
Frog
Eleven Small Birds
Cross Fade Street
Reverse Presence
Weirdling
Jackdaw Vampire
Outer Reaches

tracks:
Town

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