I’ve already got four of the bands on this album in my collection - Burnin Red Ivanhoe, The Old Man and the Sea, Hurdy Gurdy and Savage Rose but, having listened to the album, I am certainly going to be adding to those!
Remembering an outstanding set she played one year at Install festival in Glasgow. The venue was The Arches, Victorian brick tunnels under Glasgow Central Station. The drones made the air thick and you wandered around swimming in sound. Amazing. This is more by way of a gentle start to Sunday morning.
- At the age of 21, I wrote a piece for "total piano" (prepared piano,
with extensive play on the strings and surfaces inside the piano) called
Halloween. It was an instant hit and performed in semi-theatrical
productions several times over the years. This new album rips the music
into shreds and reassembles them into various new mixes that are
sometimes intense, sometimes hypnotizing. . . .
In 1982, Bill Fontana mounted a monumental outdoor sound installation
called Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns that would near-impossible to
realize today. Live audio feeds from eight foghorns around the San
Francisco Bay were routed to a central listening arena on city’s
waterfront at Fort Mason. As a pioneer in the developing field of Sound
Art, Fontana’s fusion of sound and sculpture was virtually unheard of,
much less on the region-encompassing scale that he was working with for
Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns. A document of the installation was
released as an LP by San Francisco radio station KQED, which has since
become a sought-after collectors’ item. . . .
I almost didn't buy this one. I didn't like it much on first listen. But Wil Bolton has made some excellent albums that have stayed in my rotation, and NeoTantra had one of their regular sales, so I bought it for completism. After some more listens I am starting to like it a lot.
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2012 Ageold
I’ve already got four of the bands on this album in my collection - Burnin Red Ivanhoe, The Old Man and the Sea, Hurdy Gurdy and Savage Rose but, having listened to the album, I am certainly going to be adding to those!
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