Eyeless in Gaza

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No Noise 02:50 Tools
Seven Years 02:20 Tools
New Risen 02:51 Tools
Veil Like Calm 01:54 Tools
From A To B 02:18 Tools
Fixation 03:19 Tools
Invisibility 02:43 Tools
Speech Rapid Fire 02:54 Tools
Looking Daggers 01:52 Tools
Others 02:57 Tools
Changing Stations 02:25 Tools
John of patmos 04:20 Tools
Clear cut apparently 01:27 Tools
Rose petal knot 02:14 Tools
Faceless 02:14 Tools
Knives replace air 06:42 Tools
One by one 03:29 Tools
Transience Blues 04:33 Tools
Kodak Ghosts Run Amok 02:28 Tools
Plague of Years 01:42 Tools
Point You 02:32 Tools
A keepsake 02:20 Tools
In your painting 03:38 Tools
Whitewash 03:23 Tools
Pearl and Pale 03:31 Tools
Picture the Day 01:45 Tools
Three Kittens 04:44 Tools
The Decoration 02:44 Tools
Taking Steps 02:03 Tools
Avenue with Trees 03:23 Tools
Sixth Sense 03:36 Tools
See red 02:47 Tools
Jane Dancing 01:04 Tools
Every which way 05:01 Tools
Pencil Sketch 02:23 Tools
Voice From the Tracks 04:01 Tools
Ever Present 01:56 Tools
Out From the Day-To-Day 02:59 Tools
Lights of april 02:21 Tools
Between These Dreams 04:32 Tools
Bright Play Of Eyes 03:29 Tools
Corner of Dusk 03:50 Tools
Scale Amiss 03:01 Tools
Two 02:27 Tools
September hills 03:53 Tools
No Perfect Stranger 04:49 Tools
Still Air 03:40 Tools
Back From The Rains 03:17 Tools
Continual 02:16 Tools
At arms length 02:02 Tools
Soul on Thin Ice 02:42 Tools
The Eyes of Beautiful Losers 05:15 Tools
Welcome Now 03:34 Tools
Only Whispers 04:36 Tools
Leaves are Dancing 03:13 Tools
Drumming The Beating Heart 02:13 Tools
Skeletal Framework 03:31 Tools
Throw a Shadow 01:59 Tools
Keynote Inertia 02:31 Tools
Stealing Autumn 04:39 Tools
Lilt Of Music 01:36 Tools
Evening Music 02:48 Tools
Lie Still, Sleep Long 04:08 Tools
Blue Distance 02:02 Tools
Dreaming at Rain 06:47 Tools
True Colour 04:13 Tools
Half-Light 03:19 Tools
Tall and White Nettles 01:52 Tools
To Ellen 01:21 Tools
Catch Me 01:28 Tools
Before You Go 05:05 Tools
Warm Breath, Soft and Slow 03:31 Tools
Inky Blue Sky 03:38 Tools
Twilight 03:49 Tools
Sheer Cliffs 02:19 Tools
Sweet Life Longer 03:47 Tools
Pale Saints 05:16 Tools
Tell 02:14 Tools
She moves thru the fair 03:02 Tools
Lies of Love 03:02 Tools
To Elizabeth S. 04:31 Tools
Sun-like-gold 03:10 Tools
Ill Winds Blows 03:12 Tools
To Steven 04:03 Tools
Big Clipper Ship 03:21 Tools
New Love Here 03:42 Tools
Letters to She 06:22 Tools
Priests 03:32 Tools
My Last, Lost Melody 01:28 Tools
Light Sliding 03:52 Tools
Sunbursts In 03:50 Tools
Your Rich Sky 03:51 Tools
Flight Of Swallows 04:39 Tools
through eastfields 03:44 Tools
Scent On Evening Air 04:53 Tools
You Frighten 06:22 Tools
Fracture Track 05:40 Tools
One Light Then 12:30 Tools
Sun Bursts In 03:48 Tools
Monstrous Joy 05:26 Tools
Falling Leaf/Fading Flower: Goodbye to Summer 05:10 Tools
ill-wind blows 03:10 Tools
Mixed choir 04:56 Tools
Mock sun 03:37 Tools
To cry mercy 05:13 Tools
Struck Like Jacob Marley 06:03 Tools
Morning 03:36 Tools
Stay 04:22 Tools
Marionette 01:17 Tools
Ways Of Rachel 03:10 Tools
The lovely wanton 04:24 Tools
What I Want To Know 04:00 Tools
Summer Salt 04:11 Tools
Staring 04:25 Tools
China Blue Vision 02:50 Tools
Hours Grow 03:37 Tools
Wildcat Fights 03:33 Tools
History book 04:48 Tools
Reminding pictures 03:45 Tools
Answer Song And Dance 04:54 Tools
Guide this night 03:07 Tools
Passing And Distant View 03:56 Tools
Among the blue flowers and the yellow 02:01 Tools
Damning Yourself Broken 03:37 Tools
The 3-D Picture 04:31 Tools
Street Lamps N' Snow 04:28 Tools
Whitening Rays 05:49 Tools
Three Ships 11:35 Tools
As Was 02:18 Tools
Jane, Dancing 01:03 Tools
The Leaves of Life / Seven Virgins 04:46 Tools
Fear Clutches 02:26 Tools
Old Lime Quarry 03:19 Tools
Dearsong 03:50 Tools
Great Ocean Liner 05:30 Tools
Lullay my liking 02:40 Tools
Before december 02:12 Tools
Lord gregory 02:10 Tools
Where Vivid Bloomed 03:39 Tools
All Lone Hours 03:44 Tools
Less sky 04:01 Tools
Streets I Ran 03:36 Tools
Songs Of Living Sons 04:09 Tools
Fever Pitch And Bite 02:48 Tools
The silkie 02:20 Tools
Sorrow Loves Yr Laughter 04:02 Tools
Bitter Apples 04:13 Tools
You Are Grace 02:18 Tools
Mysterious traffic 04:51 Tools
Before Beginning 03:12 Tools
Paper Aeroplanes 07:08 Tools
First Blue Distance 05:38 Tools
Much Wants More 03:32 Tools
Everpresent 01:56 Tools
Old and cold and full of ghosts 04:40 Tools
Ghost Blocks 01:34 Tools
Early Empty Lanes 04:33 Tools
From Drawn Blinds 03:53 Tools
Talking mythic language 02:37 Tools
Brilliant Blue 03:18 Tools
Ebbing All The Years 07:31 Tools
Bushes and Briars 04:35 Tools
The Keep 03:04 Tools
Antipathy Whisper 04:22 Tools
Dust 02:52 Tools
Dance Of Hours 05:40 Tools
My Lost Melody 04:41 Tools
The Feeling Mutual 02:42 Tools
P.S. For Michael 01:47 Tools
Voices 04:32 Tools
Dear Light 04:01 Tools
No Further Than the Shore 05:05 Tools
Dogs Bark 06:53 Tools
Endless Trees 03:58 Tools
Reverie 02:10 Tools
Ever pitch and bite 02:49 Tools
The Day Began 05:45 Tools
Year Dot 04:34 Tools
Shorepoem - Pete Becker Mix 03:53 Tools
Harps in Heaven 03:58 Tools
Long Calling Summer 04:48 Tools
dusky ruth 01:49 Tools
Reedsong 04:39 Tools
Returning Over 04:04 Tools
Morning Singing 03:19 Tools
Said Bitterly 03:49 Tools
Desolate Hills 04:01 Tools
Scent Of Evening Air 04:51 Tools
Likeness of Summer 03:00 Tools
Falling Leaf, Fading Flower (Goodbye to Summer) 05:08 Tools
Seeing/Book Of Days 03:35 Tools
Kodak Ghosts Run Around 02:26 Tools
Bright Play Of Eyes (12'' New Risen) 03:27 Tools
Sorrow Came 02:33 Tools
Among The Gathering Skies 05:35 Tools
To Listen Across the Sands 07:18 Tools
New Risen (12'' New Risen) 02:51 Tools
So You Appear 03:30 Tools
Jump To Glory Jane 04:33 Tools
I Will Give My Love an Apple 05:48 Tools
Childhood Knives 03:22 Tools
Dust Al;phabet 04:04 Tools
ALL NEW 01:30 Tools
Slow Train 06:03 Tools
Slow Eve 03:30 Tools
She Tries The Jewels (Remix) 04:51 Tools
as far and deep as love 04:41 Tools
If I Could Live As The Sun Does 04:33 Tools
Zeal 03:31 Tools
Broken 04:01 Tools
Far Lands Blue 03:51 Tools
Never Going Back 03:51 Tools
Dreaming Body 01:31 Tools
Falling Leaf / Fading Flower; Goodbye To Summer 05:08 Tools
Phantom Music 04:17 Tools
Here, Friend Of Mine 04:02 Tools
Antiphony Whispers 04:48 Tools
fabulous library 03:17 Tools
She Tries On The Jewels 03:42 Tools
Five Songs 04:41 Tools
Up The Walls Of Song 07:16 Tools
Half Light 00:00 Tools
Egg Box Mask 04:29 Tools
Sunset 1903 03:11 Tools
Be The Teacher 04:44 Tools
Formerly At Midnight 07:54 Tools
Tamarisk 03:52 Tools
Twilight Walking 06:40 Tools
Taking Steps (original version) 02:05 Tools
feel like letting go 08:03 Tools
P.S. For Michel 01:49 Tools
The Felling's Mutual 02:41 Tools
Stormy Weather 04:35 Tools
STAR POOL, MILKY WAY 01:30 Tools
I Told You It Wouldn't Rain 07:42 Tools
Stone Smile 06:24 Tools
Goodbye to Summer 03:01 Tools
vivid (full-on) 06:27 Tools
hunger song 05:53 Tools
You Know Nothing 01:14 Tools
Music For Playgrounds 02:04 Tools
One-Legged 05:12 Tools
Song-Like In The Dead Night 04:59 Tools
Earth (Legend of the 2 Daughters) 03:04 Tools
Book 02:24 Tools
Animal Hate 04:33 Tools
From A. to B. 02:14 Tools
Lover Spit & Kiss 02:51 Tools
To Steven (I) 04:05 Tools
Falling Leaf / Fading Flower 05:49 Tools
loves a sometime thing 06:38 Tools
wild flower 02:47 Tools
Red Letter Day 07:13 Tools
Dust Box/Subway Sun 01:14 Tools
Solar Logic 04:47 Tools
Full Beautiful 07:21 Tools
Invisibility (Invisibility EP) 02:40 Tools
day screaming reminiscence 03:36 Tools
Dog's Bark 07:16 Tools
To Elizabeth S. (III) 04:32 Tools
Kodak Ghost Run Amok 02:27 Tools
And I Don't Belong 02:27 Tools
cornish claw 02:14 Tools
Orchard And Brandy 03:27 Tools
Wide Open 03:27 Tools
Sennen Cove Cliff Path 02:55 Tools
Sea Bed #2 02:20 Tools
many 03:18 Tools
Lizard 04:33 Tools
drive the nail thru the snake 03:16 Tools
Sun-Like-Gold (II) 03:11 Tools
Dust Box-Subway Sun 01:14 Tools
Letter to She 03:09 Tools
Twilights Walking 06:40 Tools
the Feeling's Mutual 02:42 Tools
Hidden Track #1 02:48 Tools
Hidden Track #3 01:16 Tools
All Yr Pages 02:36 Tools
Hidden Track #2 01:33 Tools
Eyeless In Gaza 03:32 Tools
Longing Song 03:52 Tools
Here I Am, Here I Am 04:39 Tools
Dwell 02:08 Tools
To steven. 04:04 Tools
New Take / Notkar 03:52 Tools
Locked-In 03:52 Tools
Luscious Word (Lot's Wife) - Bonus Track 05:03 Tools
Torn Bridge 05:03 Tools
Unborn 02:29 Tools
I Also Dwell 02:29 Tools
Pulse of the Rain 03:52 Tools
And I Dreamt 03:52 Tools
The Carnal and the Crane - Bonus Track 03:19 Tools
Juniper 03:07 Tools
Lift Of Music 01:35 Tools
luscious word (lot's wife) 00:00 Tools
Ever Present (Others EP) 01:53 Tools
Shorepoem (Pete Becker Mix) 03:52 Tools
Wind, Sand, Sea & Stars 02:29 Tools
Tall & White Nettles 04:45 Tools
Others (Others EP) 02:55 Tools
Dust Box Subway Sun 01:14 Tools
Jane Dancing (Others EP) 01:03 Tools
Three Kittens (Invisibility EP) 04:45 Tools
Aether Tears 05:03 Tools
Plague Of Years (Invisibility EP) 01:39 Tools
Older Day 01:39 Tools
Pleasing 04:33 Tools
Falling Leaf / Fading Flower: Goodbye to Summer 05:10 Tools
Ill-Star 03:06 Tools
Falling Leaf/Fading Flower; Goodbye to Summer 05:10 Tools
First Songs 03:34 Tools
Mania Sour 03:34 Tools
Constancy 03:34 Tools
the 3d picture 04:33 Tools
All in the Rainy Morn 04:33 Tools
Inward 03:34 Tools
Rosary 00:00 Tools
For Edward 03:34 Tools
See the Hiding Fever 00:00 Tools
Day of Doves 00:00 Tools
Amazed 00:00 Tools
Shorepoem 03:52 Tools
Old Iron 03:04 Tools
You Turn From Me 03:04 Tools
The Rock 03:52 Tools
Double World 03:52 Tools
Gentle 03:52 Tools
The Leaves of Life – Seven Virgins 04:47 Tools
Wildcat Fights (Album Version) 03:34 Tools
Teddy Edward 03:52 Tools
Earth (Legend of Two Daughters) 03:04 Tools
Dust Box / Subway Sun 01:14 Tools
light sailing 00:00 Tools
10-light sailing 00:00 Tools
Silver 02:29 Tools
ESP 02:29 Tools
05-fallinmg leaf-fading flower 03:52 Tools
Dust Alphabet 03:04 Tools
Scent Of Evening Air (12'' New Risen) 04:51 Tools
Crêpe Paper Heart 02:39 Tools
Reedsong (Album Version) 04:39 Tools
First Blue Distance (Album Version) 05:38 Tools
(----------------) 02:29 Tools
The 3-D Picture (Album Version) 04:31 Tools
The Keep (Album Version) 03:05 Tools
Priests (Album Version) 02:29 Tools
Star Pool Milky Way 03:07 Tools
I Told You It Wouldnt Rain 07:42 Tools
Song Like In The Dead Of Night 04:59 Tools
Long Gon Pa 05:49 Tools
The Carnal and the Crane 03:09 Tools
Sunset 03:11 Tools
One Legged 05:12 Tools
immersed eerie physical 00:00 Tools
The Carnal and the Crane (Bonus Track) 03:17 Tools
Photographs As Memories - No Noise 00:30 Tools
Long Calling Summer (Album Version) 04:48 Tools
Brilliant Blue (Album Version) 04:48 Tools
All Echo 06:03 Tools
Staring (Album Version) 01:14 Tools
Summer Salt (Album Version) 04:12 Tools
To Cry Mercy (Album Version) 04:12 Tools
Lines Of Flame 00:30 Tools
Old Hours, Slow Daybreak 00:30 Tools
Shorepoem (Martyn Bates Original Remastered) 04:12 Tools
Jump to Glory Lane 04:33 Tools
Lile Of Music 04:33 Tools
falling leaf-fading flower 04:33 Tools
Earth (Legend of the Two Daughters) 03:04 Tools
You, So Open 00:30 Tools
The Sun-Like-Gold 06:03 Tools
Here, Friend Of Mine (Album Version) 04:02 Tools
07 Rosary 02:26 Tools
05 Silver 03:06 Tools
Second Music 00:30 Tools
Quiet Lustre 00:30 Tools
Mythic Language 04:41 Tools
Three Nights Running 06:03 Tools
Alms Houses 06:03 Tools
We Shade Our Eyes 06:03 Tools
Fragment 00:30 Tools
06 For Edward 05:02 Tools
Prayerbook To The Quiet 00:30 Tools
Autumn Mixes Its Colours 00:30 Tools
FALLING LEAF-FADING FLOWER - GOODBYE TO SUMMER 05:10 Tools
Untitled 02:48 Tools
November 02:48 Tools
Fracture 00:30 Tools
Falling Leaf - Fading Flower. Goodbye To Summer 00:30 Tools
To Listen across sands 00:30 Tools
Falling Leaf/Fading Flower : Goodbye To Summer 02:25 Tools
Songs Of Coming Winter 00:30 Tools
Untitled 2 01:33 Tools
Among The New Flowers 02:02 Tools
Echoes And Edward 02:48 Tools
Before You Go (cut) 02:25 Tools
See The Dark Pools Flash 00:30 Tools
Fallinmg leaf-fading flower 05:08 Tools
Looking Dagger 05:08 Tools
08 Crêpe Paper Heart 02:42 Tools
No 02:42 Tools
Still Air (1981) 02:42 Tools
I Will Give My Love an Apple / (---------------) 05:49 Tools
In Flux 06:24 Tools
Song Of A Man Who Has Come Through 00:30 Tools
Untitled 3 01:16 Tools
Light of April 00:00 Tools
Luscious Word (Lot's Wife) (Bonus Track) 05:01 Tools
Dreaming The Rain 06:48 Tools
Clear Cut, Apparently 06:48 Tools
Taking Steps [#] 06:48 Tools
The Skeletal Framework 04:29 Tools
E.S.P. 03:04 Tools
Forward Steps 00:30 Tools
Kiss Syntax 04:29 Tools
3. Pale Saints 00:30 Tools
The Vacant Pool 03:04 Tools
By Proxy 00:30 Tools
Two Years On 00:30 Tools
She Tries on the Jewels (Remix) 01:29 Tools
Untitled1 06:57 Tools
I will give my love an apple & (----------------) 05:49 Tools
untitled3 03:04 Tools
Warm Breath, Soft and Low 03:04 Tools
Primary Colour 06:27 Tools
Sound Track 00:30 Tools
Palms 00:30 Tools
Darker Portraits 00:30 Tools
03 - One By One 03:28 Tools
05 - Dreaming At Rain 06:46 Tools
06 - Two 02:27 Tools
untitled2 02:27 Tools
Crepe Paper Heart 02:27 Tools
Feeling's Mutual 02:42 Tools
A6 - You Frighten 02:27 Tools
The Odd Fellow's Ball 02:27 Tools
November, Silver & Dark 00:30 Tools
Walk Away Detachment 00:30 Tools
Urge (The Favourite Game) 00:30 Tools
The Rain Dreaming Ship 00:30 Tools
See She Sells, On the Sea Shore, Shells 00:30 Tools
Falling leaf /fading flower: goodbye to summer 01:29 Tools
Creature Piece 02:27 Tools
Falling Leaf-Fading Flower; Goodbye to Summer 02:27 Tools
Echoes Of Falmer 02:27 Tools
Sun-Like Gold 03:14 Tools
Falling Leaf_fading Flower; 00:30 Tools
Snow Theme 00:30 Tools
Catch Me, Count Me, Catch Fire 01:29 Tools
Song Of The Beautiful Wanton 00:30 Tools
The Lonely Wanton 01:29 Tools
End Theme 01:29 Tools
11 - Lights of April 01:29 Tools
A Needle to North 00:30 Tools
You Frighten (from V.A. "Perspectives And Distortion") 00:30 Tools
Three Kittens ("Invisibility" B-Side) 00:30 Tools
Dusky Ruth (from V.A. "Flowmotion") 00:30 Tools
Everpresent ("Others" B-Side) 00:30 Tools
Pale Hands, I Loved So Well 00:30 Tools
Talking Mythic Language (Bondgate Uk '81) 00:30 Tools
Falling Leaf/Fading Flower 06:03 Tools
Among the Blue Flowers 06:03 Tools
Far Lands Blue [#] 00:30 Tools
Lie Still Sleep Long 00:30 Tools
09 corner of dusk 00:30 Tools
Priests (Leonard Cohen cover) 03:17 Tools
The Feelings Mutual ... 00:30 Tools
06 Two 00:30 Tools
You Are A Target Market 00:30 Tools
Street I Ran 00:30 Tools
Map Reading For Beginners 00:30 Tools
15 - Blue Distance 00:30 Tools
11-light sailing 00:30 Tools
Taking Steps (Single AA-Side) 04:47 Tools
Others (Single A-Side) 02:56 Tools
China Blue Vision ("Kodak Ghosts Run Amok" B-Side) 06:27 Tools
Invisibility (Single A-Side) 00:30 Tools
Plague Of Years ("Invisibility" B-Side) 03:13 Tools
Kodak Ghosts Run Amok (Single A-Side) 03:13 Tools
The Feeling's Mutual ("Kodak Ghosts Run Amok" B-Side) 04:47 Tools
Avenue With Trees ("Others" B-Side) 04:47 Tools
Scent On Evening Air ("New Risen" B-Side) 06:27 Tools
Jane, Dancing ("Others" B-Side) 06:03 Tools
Through Eastfields (from V.A. "Flowmotion") 03:13 Tools
05 - vivid (full-on) 06:27 Tools
III Wind Blows 03:13 Tools
Drumming The Beating Heart ("New Risen" B-Side) 06:03 Tools
Lovers Spit & Kiss 02:50 Tools
The Luscious Word (Lot's Wife) (Bonus Track) 00:30 Tools
01 - slow train 06:03 Tools
They Come and They Go, In Shards of Silver 04:29 Tools
Little Suite III: Silver 06:03 Tools
Catch Me [#] 03:17 Tools
Tell [#] 03:17 Tools
Pale Hands I Loved So Well 04:29 Tools
Changing Stations _ Eyeless In Gaza 06:03 Tools
01-Seven Years 06:03 Tools
03 - as far and deep as love 04:41 Tools
02 - fabulous library 03:17 Tools
So You Appear... 03:17 Tools
Brushes and Briars 04:44 Tools
Strees I Ran 02:42 Tools
08-knives replace air 03:17 Tools
13 Tall AndWhite Nettles 03:17 Tools
They Come And They Go, In Shreds Of Silver 03:17 Tools
Little Suite I: B-Movie Prelude 03:17 Tools
11-keepsake 03:17 Tools
06 speech rapid fire 03:17 Tools
An Odd Scent of Heaven 03:17 Tools
18 - Lies of Love 03:17 Tools
11 Lights Of April 03:17 Tools
16 - Sheer Cliffs 03:17 Tools
Squeezing Milk From Stones 03:17 Tools
Walking With Estate Agents 03:17 Tools
Falling leaf /fading flower : goodbye to summer 05:07 Tools
23 - Big Clipper Ship 05:07 Tools
Leaves Of LIfe / Seven Virgins 04:47 Tools
Wind, Sand , Sea & Stars 02:50 Tools
Said Buterfly 03:49 Tools
The Raindreaming Ship 03:49 Tools
Eyes of Beautiful Losers 03:13 Tools
See She Sells, On The Seashore. Shells 03:13 Tools
Veil 03:13 Tools
The 3- D Picture 04:36 Tools
06 - she tries on the jewels 02:50 Tools
15 fever pitch and bite 04:29 Tools
Falling Leaf - Fading Flower (Goodbye to Summer) 04:29 Tools
01 Seven years 04:29 Tools
a3 - Pale Saints 04:29 Tools
05-clear cut apparently 04:29 Tools
02-fixation 04:29 Tools
03-looking daggers 04:29 Tools
07 - stone smile 06:24 Tools
06-Speech Rapid Fire 06:24 Tools
04-from a to b 06:24 Tools
08 - stormy weather 04:36 Tools
09 - feel like letting go 04:36 Tools
New Risen _ Eyeless In Gaza 02:42 Tools
07-john of patmos 02:42 Tools
Mars Lighthouse I & II 02:42 Tools
Sun Like Gold 02:42 Tools
14 dogs bark 02:42 Tools
09-faceless 02:42 Tools
10-in your painting 02:42 Tools
12-whitewash 02:42 Tools
13-No Noise 02:42 Tools
04 - be the teacher 04:44 Tools
02 Fixation 04:44 Tools
theleavesoflife 04:44 Tools
19 To Ellen 04:44 Tools
18 Lies Of Love 04:44 Tools
15 Blue Distance 04:44 Tools
10-letter to she 04:44 Tools
17 - Falling Leaf-Fading Flower - Goodbye To Summer 04:44 Tools
14 - Warm Breath, Soft And Slow 04:44 Tools
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Eyeless in Gaza is a post-punk/new wave musical duo of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, based in Nuneaton, United Kingdom. They have described their music as "veer[ing] crazily from filmic ambiance to rock and pop, industrial funk to avant-folk styles." Formed in 1980, the group went into hiatus in 1987 as Martyn Bates pursued a number of solo projects and collaborations, re-emerging in 1993. Becker, a laboratory technician, had played in a covers band before buying and experimenting with a Wasp synthesizer (he released a solo cassette-album in June 1980 and a second a year later). Bates, a hospital worker, had previously been a member of Reluctant Stereotypes, and released a cassette of experimental electronic music in January 1980. Shortly afterwards they met and together they formed Eyeless in Gaza, both contributing vocals and several instruments. The band name is a reference to the novel Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley. Bates has said he chose the name "for the sound of it... I was reading the Huxley book when I met Pete... It sounded perfectly nice." But Bates has also acknowledged an allusion to the "biblical myth" of Samson, saying, "I feel attracted by religion. I feel that people don't pay enough attention to the spiritual side of their life; it is a very interesting side of the human psychism and it fascinates me." After a self-released single, they signed to Cherry Red Records, releasing debut album Photographs as Memories in February 1981. After three further albums for Cherry Red and an album for Norwegian label Uniton, they added Aztec Camera drummer Dave Ruffy for single Welcome Now (1985), recruiting former Sinatras/In Embrace drummer Joby Palmer for the next album, Back from the Rains. The group then went on hiatus after Becker married and relocated to Spain, with Bates concentrating on solo work. They reunited in 1990 to collaborate with Anne Clark on her album The Law Is an Anagram of Wealth. In 1991 Bates formed Hungry I with former Primitives drummer Steve Dullahan. They returned in 1993 with singer Elizabeth S for the Fabulous Library album and continued as a duo since. Bates also recorded between 1994 and 1998 with M.J. Harris (Napalm Death/Scorn) under the name Drift, and in the early 2000s with keyboardist Alan Trench in Twelve Thousand Days. He has also continued to release solo material. In 2012, Martyn Bates and Peter Becker appeared on Right North, the eleventh album, a double digipack, of the international collective 48 Cameras. http://www.eyelessingaza.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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