Profile:Nash The Slash has been creating his unique concept of sound and vision for over twenty years. His first live presentation of music to film was a performance to the surreal silent film "Un Chien Andalou" at the Roxy Theatre in Toronto.
Nash The Slash was born of silent film. The name comes from a killer butler encountered by Laurel and Hardy in their first film 'Do Detectives Think? ' 1927). Nash the musician has gone on to create the music scores for such recent cult films as "Roadkill" and "Highway 61' - both directed by Bruce McDonald.
Between experiments with film and music. Nash The Slash became a familiar name to music fans through his association with the pop electronic group FM. Having co-written the hit songs "Phasors on Stun " and "Just Like You" Nash established his credibility as a versatile artist. His talents have been recognized with a U-KNOW (later called CASBY) award for best instrumental artist as well as a JUNO nomination for best new male vocalist. Nash's profile was raised on the international stage when he toured the world with the likes of Gary Numan and Iggy Pop. Other high- profile shows include opening for The Who at C.N.E. Stadium in Toronto to a crowd of 70,000 people, and opening for The Tubes at a sold-out Maple Leaf Gardens.
Nash has recently recorded new music for the silent film classics "The cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919) and "The Lost World "(1925).
Nash continues to do unique film scores for other silent film classics including "Nosferatu" the original "Phantom of the Opera " and "Lost In Space"
Children of the Night CD 2000
1 Wolf 4:51
2 Dead Man's Curve 3:32
3 Children Of The Night 4:15
4 Deep Forest 0:54
5 Glass Eye 4:47
6 19th Nervous Breakdown 3:27
7 Swing Shift 3:44
8 Metropolis 1:00
9 Dopes On The Water 6:03
10 Danger Zone 4:15
Bonus Tracks
11 Wolf (Live) 5:51
12 Danger Zone (Live) 4:44
13 Reactor No.2 4:19
14 Swing Shift (Original 45 Rpm Version) 4:22
15 Swing Shift (Flexi Version) 3:22
16 Children Of The Night (Live) 4:45
Decomposing 1981
A1 The Calling
A2 Life In Loch Ness
B1 Womble
B2 Pilgrim's Lament
This is the first album playable at any speed. Being all-instrumental music, there are no voices to affect the realism of the orchestrations. Thus the album becomes a collection of electronic concertos, each movement being defined by the speed of the turntable. A turntable with speeds of 16,33, 45 and 78 rpm, creates a different ratio within the pieces, yet maintains a familiar melodic drama.
And You Thought You Were Normal 1982
A1 Citizen
A2 Pretty Folks
A3 RSVP
A4 Vincent's Crows
A5 Dance After Curfew
B1 Normal
B2 The Hypnotist
B3 Remember When
B4 Animal Jamboree
B5 Stalker
Lyrics By - Toby Dammit
American Band-Ages 1984
A1 (American Bandstand Theme) Bandstand Boogie 0:39
A2 American Band 3:34
A3 Born To Be Wild 4:04
A4 Who Do You Love? 4:08
A5 1984 (West Side Version) 5:35
B1 Bandstand Boogie Reprise 0:26
B2 Hey Joe 3:34
B3 Psychotic Reaction 5:29
B4 1984 (Dance Version) 6:35
B5 Run Through The Jungle 0:35
In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (2008)
Astronomy Domine
21st Century Schizoid Man
Animal Magentism
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Baba O'Riley
Follow the Leader
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Constantinople
Here, in Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout #165, I have discovered the great ray that first brought life into the world!
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Nash The Slash - In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (Cut-Throat) :: Elegantly tuxedoed like Cary Grant in George Cukor’s Holiday and hideously bandaged like Claude Rains in James Whale’s The Invisible Man, the revered and reviled serial sonic psychotron known as Nash The Slash has been number one in a field of one ever since he first began creating his own insidious sound of music from deep within secreted studio walls located somewhere inside of an abandoned subway station miles beneath the filthy sidewalks of Toronto.
Armed only with a Strickfaden array of hyper-amped violins, mandolins, synths and drum machines, Nash proceeded to unleash upon an unsuspecting society a senses-shattering series of aural album assaults whose titles said it all: Bedside Companion. Dreams And Nightmares. Decomposing. Children Of The Night.
These unreasonably unrelenting records led to Nash being smuggled into Europe to work with the likes of Gary Numan and Bill Nelson, only to be abruptly expelled from the continent by the EU as "a deviant influence not only on humanity but on all life itself" after angry villagers caught a rare glimpse of his grisly ungauzed visage late one night in an iniquitous den of ill repute on the Rue Morgue.
Safely ensconced back home in his underground lair, Nash donned his stained leather apron and threw himself into his work with a renewed vengeance born of righteous anger that would ultimately be made manifest in the records which were to follow: the corrupt social commentary on And You Thought You Were Normal; the modern urban brutality of Thrash; the silent cinema soundtrack to Nosferatu; and his first ever album of cover versions, American BandAges.
Now the Slasher strikes again with an even greater new record of covers that extends from the obvious (Baba O’Riley and Astronomy Domine) to the obscure (Follow The Leaders and Constantinople) to the omnipresent (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald). So don’t be an angry villager: buy it now!
