CD - Wire - Vien +

CD - Wire - Vien +1CD Following the departure of Wire's drummer Robert Grey in 1990, WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire's Mute Records contract. With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes

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Following the departure of Wire's drummer Robert Grey in 1990, WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire's Mute Records contract.

With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes sampling their own older material. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album, "The First Letter", their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist "conceptual happenings" under the name I Saw You.

One of these was in Vienna in February 1993. On that Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. The remastered 2025 edition adds a newly recorded, Taylor Swift style re-recording of what is undoubtedly WIR's most pop moment, the dark brooding shadows of "So And Slow".