Experimental multi-instrumentalist Eric Random released three albums and a slew of singles between 1980 and 1987, tracing a fascinating
post-punk arc from art-bruit to esoteric jazz and funk inflections, and later exploring non-Western idioms with his group
The Bedlamites. Hailing from Manchester, Random struck up enduring associations with Buzzcock
Pete Shelley, Velvets femme fatale
Nico and (most notably) with Sheffield avant-gardists
Cabaret Voltaire, with whom much of his early material bears comparison. Born Eric Ramsden in 1961, a teenage Random first recorded as part of
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