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. FRAGMENTS from an early INTERVIEW : A very early (mid-1980) article/interview by Geff Rushton/John Balance .

* " ... I first got in touch with Martyn Bates before E.I.G. had formed as such. I had heard selections from a tape he had done for I.D. cassettes called ’Dissonance’, and I was so intrigued by the really vicious electronic scrawls he produced (he describes the tape as a scream of frustration) that I had to find out more about the tape and about Martyn. We corresponded regularly and then suddenly Martyn sent me a pre-tape of a planned EIG ep. The tape was three tracks from their first ep plus three more which are to be included on the soon to be released Lp. The tape was a total change from anything Martyn had done (or rather sent me before). It was haunting, beautiful and totally fresh sounding. It was difficult to believe that such stuff could come from the same person as had the earlier tapes that I had heard. It was a shift from violent, anti-music to smooth, controlled mood music. The following article is culled from lengthy correspondence between Stabmental and EIG" .

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from DISSONANCE​/​ANTAGONISTIC MUSIC, released May 24, 2022

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(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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