This is it's immaterial

Sylvain Azam



The immaterial...

If we try to understand this word, "immaterial", metaphysical questions are running. Is the immaterial mean "non-material", lack of matter ? Is immaterial is an another kind of material, a immaterial ? Is the immaterial is to the material, what the shape is to the shapeless, or the information is to the training ? We leave these questions unresolved, we just mind the attraction to the dreams who create immaterial. A calling so deep who appears at the humanity dawn with the oral transmission of mythical stories, knowledges and practicals.


Dominique Figarella "La station"




It's Immaterial were a band formed in Liverpool in 1980. I's Immaterial were formed by three former members of Yachts - John Campbell, vocals, Martin Dempsey, guitar, and Henry Priestman, keyboards - in addition to Paul Barlow, drums. By 1984, the band had been reduced to a duo - Campbell and Jarvis Whitehead, guitar and keyboards, who joined in 1982.

Musically, It's Immaterial's albums are all over the place — new wave, country, blues, folk, and synth pop. Somehow the smorgasbord of styles works, because the band members aren't being eclectic just for the sake of it; they simply have a wide canvas, keeping the albums fresh from beginning to end.

I will recommend to you the album "Songs" who is an intelligent and extremely well-realised pop album that belies its simplistic origins, and also the album "Life's hard and then You die". For those of you who are genuinely moved by soaring harmonised vocals, ironic folk rendition, rolling Spanish guitars and tongue-in-cheek meanderings. A fascinating musical hybrid that touches variously on synth-pop, atmospheric art-rock, recitation and a unique brand of English country music.

Jack Goldstein "Untitled" 1981