In celebration of their 40th anniversary Bauhaus will release a five song EP featuring material from their first studio session on November 23rd. The session took place January 26th, 1979 - only six weeks after forming - and was where they recorded their seminal anthem "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
The Bela Sessions EP is the first and only official reissue of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on vinyl and also includes three previously unreleased songs from the sessions "Some Faces," "Bite My Hip," and "Boys (Original)," along with the previously released 1982 track "Harry." All of the material has been newly mastered from the original analogue tape by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios.
The Bela Sessions will be released on limited edition white vinyl (only 1000 copies) and standard black vinyl. Both versions are pressed on 180 gm vinyl and come with a printed inner sleeve and poster. Pre-order through Bandcamp.
This release appears to be the first in a series of Bauhaus reissues that Peter Murphy hinted at previously. In July Murphy revealed that colored vinyl Bauhaus reissues are planned for later this year. Anticipate more news soon. Stay tuned!
Meanwhile Murphy posted some comments regarding the role the original Bauhaus movement had on the band and said it had no influence other than "the sound, shape, energetic and sensory birth name" of the group. Read his posting below:
"Bauhaus had no influence on Bauhaus except for being the sound, shape, energetic, and sensory Birth name of our group. The name was irresistibly genius as it was just waiting for the latter movement (us) to descend down into its spirit. There could only ever be our band to don its robe of existence with this our name. A predestination. "This ain't rock and roll...this is post avant-garde." The death of punk, the everything to piss n moan about of the pseudo angry punk bore, ran out. The beauty of the seers of beauty in even the apparent ugly exploded into being Us. (The Bauhaus furniture and a few buildings still looked great though.)"
Published September 10th, 2018