And Also The Trees - Wallpaper Dying (Live In Geneva)

"Wallpaper Dying" is a cut from the 'live in Geneva' performance, recorded December 2003 at, L'Usine [Performing arts theater in Geneva, Switzerland].
Founded in 1979 in a small village in Worcestershire & inspired by the ideology of a still-developing post-punk movement, AATT from their very beginnings were different. Unlike more urban contemporaries like PIL & Gang Of Four, AATT were influenced almost exclusively by the landscape & history of the rural environment that surrounded them, an influence that has remained throughout their entire existence to this day.
(Members (Past & Present) : Emer Brizzolara, Graham Havas, Ian Jenkins, Justin Jones, Nick Havas, Paul Hill, Simon Huw Jones, Steven Burrows.)
Their first, self-titled album, released in 1983 reflected those early, tentative post-punk roots, but it was with 1986's seminal Virus Meadow - an album of rich, pagan melancholy & disturbing laments - & the resulting European tours, that AATT truly found their own identity & seemingly an audience that were enraptured by the dramatic, understood the poetic nature of their work & The dense, chiming guitars & relentless rhythmic spirals perfectly complementing the rich, nursery rhyme-like lyrics of Simon Huw Jones & the almost pre-Raphaelite artwork...