Biography
Dalis Car faced collapse practically before they began. What started as a promising suggestion for ex-Bauhaus vocalist and lyricist Peter Murphy to team up with former Japan bassist and composer Mick Karn quickly turned sour, leaving the band on the brink of implosion before they even split. Their only release, the 1984 album The Waking Hour, exceeded its £40,000 ($60,000) allocation from Virgin and Beggars Banquet by more than £20,000 ($30,000). A flop commercially, it yielded just one underwhelming single in “The Judgement Is the Mirror.” At first the partnership between Murphy and Karn appeared promising. They exchanged four-track tapes by mail and finished most of the material before entering the studio together. Tensions erupted once recording started, however, and upon completion neither had any interest in repeating the experience. “It was a particularly difficult project,” Karn remarked during a late-’90s interview. “We were two very different people.”
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