Richard H Kirk Of Cabaret Voltaire Dies, Aged 65 - What Is Known About The Causes Of Death
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ธ.ค. 2024
- Sad news.
Richard Harold Kirk, a leading figure in industrial and electronic music best known for his influential work with Cabaret Voltaire, has died. His label, Mute, confirmed the news. Kirk was 65 years old. Although no official sources clarified Richard Kirk’s cause of death at this time, some social media users claim he lost his after battling an illness. Some others believe he died from an infection of COVID-19.
Born in 1956, Kirk grew up in the industrialized east end of of Sheffield, where he was drawn to communist politics and dadaist art. Inspired by Roxy Music and Brian Eno’s “non-musical” approach to instrumentation, he co-founded Cabaret Voltaire-named after a Zurich club that helped incubate dadaism-in 1973. The group initially explored a kind of sound art collaging industrial noise with theatrically extreme lyrics, often using cut-up techniques inspired by William S. Burroughs. At the same time, Kirk was conducting outré experiments with solo “attic tapes,” whose songs he would later refashion for early Cabaret Voltaire records.
By 1974, the loose collective had been winnowed down to the dummer-less trio of Kirk, Stephen Mallinder, and Chris Watson, using a Farfisa drum machine as mechanical bedrock for their tape loops, synth collages, and heavily modulated organic instruments. Their mind-bending sounds and sometimes shocking lyrics was a good fit for the punk rush, but it was in the broad church of post-punk that they established a toehold in contemporary music. In 1979, now augmented by Kirk’s abrasive guitar playing and vocals sampled from film and TV, the trio released Cabaret Voltaire’s debut album, Mix-Up, on Rough Trade. Developed on records such as 1981 landmark Red Mecca, Cabaret Voltaire’s trademark sound helped define Sheffield’s pioneering electronic music scene, alongside groups like the Human League.
After Watson left the group in 1981, the band secured a licensing deal with Virgin, released a string of relatively pop-oriented singles, became the first band to play Manchester’s iconic Haçienda nightclub, and signed a comprehensive deal with major label EMI that produced 1987 album Code. But the Stateside emergence of house and techno music had caught Kirk’s ear. He began working on solo electronic music, and eventually transplanted the group to Chicago to record 1990’s Groovy, Laidback and Nasty with the house pioneer Marshall Jefferson. The band was soon dropped by EMI, and Kirk focussed on solo projects such as Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist, his collaboration with Richard Barratt (aka DJ Parrot).
When Cabaret Voltaire went into hibernation in the mid-’90s, Kirk embarked on a series of sporadic electronic releases and collaborations. He resurrected the Cabaret Voltaire name for live shows in 2014 and, in 2020, he released the album Shadow of Fear, operating as a solo project. This year, he released a pair of drone albums on Mute: Dekadrone and BN9Drone.
Rest in peace, Richard.
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Rest in peace, Richard.😥
Lieber Kirk, alles Liebe und Gute in dieser Welt und auch in der anderen Dimension. Ein Christkind aus Deutschland, R.I.P. ❤
RIP xxx
Rest in peace
ohh, no. 😪
Noooooooooooo
Well an AI generated obituary is better than nothing I suppose. RIP Richard