Edward Ka-Spel

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Edward Ka-Spel (born January 23, 1954 in London) is an expatriate English singer, songwriter and musician residing in the Netherlands.

Ka-Spel is probably best known as the lead singer, songwriter and co-founder (with Phil "The Silverman" Knight) of the prolific underground band The Legendary Pink Dots. He has also released numerous solo albums and has worked in various side projects, including The Tear Garden (with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy), and Mimir (with Phil Knight, Christoph Heemann, Jim O'Rourke and others).

His musical output has combined elements of psychedelia, dark folk, goth, industrial, electronic, found noise, sampling, pop and rock in varying degrees. His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared (usually favourably) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd.

Ka-Spel's singing voice is distinctive, especially for listeners outside of England, as it displays characteristics peculiar to the region of England in which he grew up. In addition to his East London/East Anglian accent, Ka-Spel's dialect has what is sometimes misidentified as a lisp, but is actually a form of rhotacism, in which Rs are mispronounced as Ws. This is believed to be a sociolect or a form of "permanent affectation" acquired as a child, rather than a speech disorder as such.

[edit] Discography

1984

  • Laugh, China Doll
  • Dance, China Doll

1985

  • Eyes, China Doll

1986

  • Chyekk, China Doll

1987

  • AaΔzhyd, China Doll
  • Apples (Big!), China Doll

1988

  • Khataclimici, China Doll

1989

  • Perhaps We'll Only See A Thin Blue Line

1990

  • Lyvv, China Doll

1991

  • Tanith & the Lion Tree

1992

  • The Char Char / Extracts from "The Inferno"

1993

  • Inferno / Illusion

1994

1995

  • The Scriptures of Illumina
  • The Textures of Illumina
  • Khataclimichi, China Doll
  • Chyekk, China Doll / AaΔzhyd, China Doll
  • Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles

1996

  • The Man Who Never Was

1997

1998

  • The Blue Room
  • Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles Volume 2

1999

  • Share the Day

2000

  • Red Letters
  • A Birth Marked Conspiracy
  • Public Disturbance

2001

  • Caste O' Graye Skreeens
  • 090301
  • Absence Of Evidence
  • Angelus Obscuros
  • Needles Three
  • Meltdown

2002

  • O'er a Shalabast'r Tyde Strolt Ay
  • Lilith And The Rose
  • Khalash Nykow China Doll (Live 04 April 1986)
  • Textures of Illumina

2003

  • 090301

2004

  • Pieces Of Infinity

2005

  • Oh Darkness, Oh Darkness
  • Fragments Of Illumina
  • Happy New Year
  • A Long Red Ladder to the Moon

[edit] Compilation appearances

[edit] External links

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