In the fall of 1978, after working with a series of bands, New York-based musician and composer Nick
West became interested in experimenting with minimalism, collaborating with guitarist and songwriter
Ramona Jan and Lyn Byrd. They decided to play pure pop but to substitute a primitive electronic beatbox for a human drummer. The result was Comateens, becoming one of the first groups to discard the
traditional sounds and line-ups used by everyone else in New York City's downtown music scene of
the late 1970s. In 1980 Nick's brother Oliver joined them as guitarist, and after going on to release
three major label albums (Comateens, Pictures On A String, and Deal With It), and with some
successful tours and dance-club hits behind them, the band split up following the terribly untimely
death of Oliver in June 1987.
However in 1988 Virgin Records issued another LP entitled West & Byrd, recorded by Nick and Lyn as
a duo, and in 1991 released a retrospective compilation called 'One By One: Best Of Comateens', now
a rare and much sought-after record among collectors of new wave music. Acclaimed by Etienne
Daho, the band has made a name for itself with the singles "Late Night City", "Get Off My Case" and
"Don't Come Back".

Tracklist :

COMATEENS PICTURES ON A STRING DEAL WITH IT

A1: Ghosts
A2: Late Night City
A3: One By One
A4: TVC
A5: All Ways
A6: Summer in the City
B1: Nightmare
B2: Strangler
B4: The Munsters Theme
B3: Overseas
B5: Raceway
B6: Keep The Pace
C1: Get Off my Case
C2: The Late Mistake
C3: Ice Machine
C4: Comateens
C5: Pictures on a String
C6: Garbanzo
D1: Uptown
D2: Cinnamon
D3: Cold Eyes
D4: Desert Song
D5: Donna
D6: Crime Time
E1: Resist Her
E2: Confessions
E3: Love Will Follow You1
E4: Satin Hop A
E5: Deal With It
F1: Nightmare
F2: Walking Watching
F3: Dont Come Back
F4: Jo-Ni
F5: Ask Yourself