Amoeba Music

By Charles Reece

             There is this old myth about the ring of Gyges, the wearer of which turns invisible.  Plato suggested one’s morality would erode without society’s ability to watch one’s actions.  No lover of the arts, he probably would not have seen the aesthetic benefit inherent in glam’s use of rouge and powder for the public recreation of the self.  As David Bowie demonstrated, wearing a mask can free the artist from the branding constraints placed on him by the vigilant eye of commercialism.  With the labels, management and public distracted by its mask, Japan developed into one of the more adventurous and... Read More

Genre:

Rock, New Wave, New Romantic

City Of Origin:

Lewisham, England

Formed Date:

1974