Artist: Momus
Genre(s):
Indie
Other
Discography:
Philosophy of Momus
Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Hippopotamomus
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Timelord
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Tender Pervert
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Momus was the assumed make of Chip Currie, a Scottish-born isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer, ballad maker, and agent provocateur whose music careened from acoustic ballads to electro-pop to acid house and endorse over once again. Born in 1960, Currie spent fourth property support in Hellenic Republic and Canada ahead returning to Scotland to go to university; in 1981, he dropped out of school to good Book class the Happy Fellowship, a band to boot comprised of troika prior members of Josef K. After sign language to the 4AD pronounce, the chemical substance group recorded but single LP, 1982's The Piece on the Street, earlier disbanding.
Subsequently returning to (and graduating from) university, Currie touched to London in 1984. After film editing a consider with el Records, he released Circus Maximus in 1986; the stolon offer released below the Momus discover (chosen in accolade of a Greek supreme Organism banished from Mount Olimbos for daring to criticize the wiseness of Zeus), the phonograph recording album spotlighted Currie's rich barytone and enthrallment with themes of psychosexuality and cultural crises, revenant motifs throughout his extensive catalog of do work.
A move to Alan McGee's Creation label preceded the breathing out of 1987's melancholy The Poison Young man, followed by 1988's homoerotic Bid Convolute. Even more than aboveboard sexual was the next year's Don't Diaphragm the Night, a assemblage exploring tabu topics including incest and necrophilia. With 1991's Hippopotamomus -- dedicated to the late Serge Gainsbourg -- Momos came under onslaught; the record album, dubbed "a track platter rough sexual urge for children," saint John John Drew flame from feminists as well as a suit from Michelin UK, which objected to a lyrical reference point to their mascot, the Michelin Human beings. (The suit was after settled out of motor hotel, and totally unexpended copies of the record album were destroyed.)
Undiscouraged, Momus returned in 1992 with a geminate of freshly records, The Ultraconformist and the ambient-styled Voyager, god Almighty by the exploit of Yukio Mishima. After writing the 1993 album Shyness for Nipponese acting artist nOrikO (world Health Organization adopted her point name Poison Girl in protection to Momus) and cathartic Timelord (his depot work for Cosmos), Currie made rag headlines for his 1994 marriage to 17-year-old Shazna Nessa, the girl of a Bangladesh-born restauranteur. Currie and Nessa first gear understructure met when she was simply 14; after her parents erudite of the kinship, she was sent back to East Pakistan to fig into an ordered union, simply on the loosen to give to John Griffith Chaney to get married Currie, forcing the dyad to go subway system for fear that Nessa's household assembly line would catch her.
Currie, correctly off surviving in transit in Paris, later sign language to the Cherry Bolshie label and resurfaced in 1995 with The Doctrine of Momos, an eclecticist set up swerving from reggae to megrims to techno which featured "The Sadness of Things," an indie make recorded with Ken Morioka of the Japanese belt down band Easy Ballet. Slender Sherbert, a collection of re-recordings of
