(New Wave/Electronic/Synth-Pop/Experimental) He Said - Hail (1986) + Take Care (1989), MP3, 320 kbps

As an adjuct of Wire, Dome and Duet Emmo, Edvard Graham Lewis created He Said. Using sampling technology to reconstruct found sounds into an ornate pop universe, He Said not only fed Lewis’ curiosity but also managed to showcase his lugubrious baritone vocals to stunning effect.
The first release by He Said was the single ‘Only One I’, a collaboration between Lewis, Bruce Gilbert and AC Marias, whose early work Graham had formerly produced. Released in October 1985, it was described in Melody Maker as “a funky rapture that’s quite extraordinary,” and in Sounds as a “meeting between Scott Walker and Tuxedomoon.”
By April ‘86, the single ‘Pump’ made it’s brooding presence felt, invoking a sense of urban claustrophobia that Music Week described as “an innovative number that deserves wide exposure.” The video for ‘Pump’ gained notoriety for immortalising “the bar dance”, a humorous interpretation of lounge room language that included “the Cortina snake”; hands weaving in air to describe car action, “the loco”; finger rotating around temple to show that someone is a nutter, the self-explanatory “give-it-one elbow” and “that big”; hands held at varying distances to show the size of fish, etc. Lewis also promised that the forthcoming He Said album would include the sounds of shuffling Tasmanian Devils, rustling spaghetti packet wrappers and vibrating banana leaves.
Before then, the single ‘Pulling Three G’s/Pale’ was released in September ‘86, with the album ‘Hail’ following the next month.