He was a true renaissance man, always busy with art, poetry and music. New Yorker at heart Alan Vega was also good at creating a myth around himself. For example, he managed to knock 10 years off his real age for a long time (which made him especially good as an underground rock star) and the rumor that he was a Vietnam veteran has never been proven. But Vega, who died in 2016 at the age of 78, was
… in any case the stalwart singer of the groundbreaking electropunk duo Suicide. His widow and later musical companion Liz Lamere keeps an Alan Vega vault where she unearthed these recordings from the 90s. On these, the duo firmly beckons to the Suicide that caused such a stir at the end of the 70s and was only really appreciated later on. Hypnotic pulsing electronics form the backdrop for Vega's dark and animalistic rock 'n' roll vocals. It doesn't sound sensational anymore, but the dark Mutator reminds us that there was only one Alan Vega. (MR)more
