The rawk version of maddening shroud channeling David Sylvian, Brian Eno and Led Zepplin featuring Imogen Heap.

Maddening Shroud (rawk)

Acacia's japanese tainted sounding ode to recession with kotos, indian folk samples, nigerian kalimbas, over electronic and hip-hop drums .

Boils Down To Money

Channeling Ennio Morroconie & Joni Mitchell the Woe Woe Song is underpinned by a  heavy military marching beat climaxing in a symphonic orgasm  of guitar and Handel flavored organ. 

The Woe Woe Song

The chorus chants stay in your own hate
    
Acacia unleash a heavy metal drum 'n' bass track set up by the folksy verses a la and Led Zepplin, topped up with the futuristic production form Guy Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere. The track also features Imogen Heap pre-Frou Frou days!!!

Hate

Wired

Sympathy

Acoustic guitar fused with electro-ambient channeling  Brian Eno and Sylvian.
Listening closely one detects Joni Mitchell of Hissing of summer Lawns era.

Unfulfilled Desire

cover version of a now defunct band was very popular in acacia's live set always reminded me of Inxs

I'm In Love With Love

cover of Morrisey's track total re imagined with the Acacia sound world features tablas, a berimbau, an ektara and various toys and a wall of guitars.

The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get

Your loving is furious like the second cousin of licentious 
Dying for your ideal is spurious 
You get so serious i stay just curious

Yellow Is The Colour Of My Cowardice

An beautifully dark ambient track from Acacia that wears it's David Sylvian & Nick Drake influence on its sleeve with a nod to Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No.1


Wire

Sway

Stochausen & Boulez pianos flutters over deeply cobra like bass morphing into the a film like sound track reminiscent landscapes of the Serengeti and the pygmies of Central African in other words another day at the office for Acacia.

You Nothing

Maddening Shroud (Hani 'Maddening Club' Mix)

Maddening Shroud (Les Visiteurs Du Soir 'Nouvelle Disco' Mix)

Maddening Shroud (Intollerator III 'Dark Angel' Mix)

The original track as imaged in Willesden 

Maddening Shroud (7 Mix)

ACACIA BIOGRAPHY


Formed in the mid 90s when Guy Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere bonded over treated guitars languorous melodies Stockhausen and The Sugarcubes.
Their first gigs were more like art installations at the Lemonade Factory, they played behind muslin drapes in a circle ringed and invited the audience to pay with acacia honey.

Their live show built them an enviable reputation with the press and the 'Camden Scene' The band personify their cultural diversity with Italian guitarist Luca Ramelli no stranger to catwalks or fuzzboxes, and drummer Eshan K is Mauritian/Irish. Guy Sigsworth (who also played with Bjork and Seal) the well travelled harpsichord maestro electronic wizard producer from Yorkshire and enigmatic Alexander Nilere on vocals.
Just before the new millennium ACACIA tour with Bjork and Aphex Twins.

During 1996, ACACIA worked with an experimental folk/pop singer Imogen Heap, while never a full member of the band, Heap played an important role as guest vocalist (as a counterpart to Nilere) and would end up contributing to various Acacia tracks (One song - "Maddening Shroud" - would later resurface in the repertoire of Heap's Frou Frou project).

They released 4 singles Hate, Sway, Maddening Shroud and Wired that were said to be way ahead of their time.  Blowing a deal with Interscope they left WEA and went their separate ways. Sigsworth to work with Madonna, Alanis Morrisette & Frou Frou, Nilere to work with Nellee Hopper, Prodigy & The Blackmoth, Eshan K with Blue Man Group and Ramelli to compose for Armani and the Gucci.

Well the time has finally caught up with their sound, the album has been re-recorded re-packaged and re-released.

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