from the 12” single, ZYX Records, 1985Riding the line between italo and the darker side of synth-pop, the duo East Wall wasn’t afraid to do some genre-bending, creating a seductively moody single here that currently trades for over $200 on the collector’s circuit; this song wouldn’t feel out of place on a Visage or Rational Youth album actually. The man handling the beats and synths is Fabrizio Chiari, a former member of the equally non-genre-specific Kirlian Camera; the other half of the duo is Wilma Notari, sounding both powerful and ethereal in her broken English, “…eyes full of tears, eyes alight in the night…eyes of glass, eyes of glass…” The age of italo was nearing the end when this record dropped, but it shows the quality never went away, only that dance music was heading in a new direction.
