Yeah, that's superb stuff. Do you know this record?






In 1955, a record entitled, "Harry Revel's Music from Out of Space," arranged and conducted by Stuart Phillips, was released on MGM. It has a magnificent, standout cover, which depicted a mysterious woman with long, floating hair, suspended in space amidst orbiting spheres. The liner notes reference the three previous Revel Theremin albums, and stated that this work was, in some respect, a continuation of those works. In fact, this fine album does have much in common with the previous three. Unfortunately, the Theremin is not present on this album, and it suffers in comparison to the former albums due to that fact. It features a mostly wordless chorus very similar to that on "Music Out of the Moon," but a standard size orchestra replaces the small instrumental group. At times, a concerto-like effect is produced with a piano in the foreground. The orchestra produces a lush sound, which at times is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack from the era. Tempo and mood changes occur often in the pieces, and swing or jazz music touches can sometimes be detected. Overall, outer space is depicted as a slightly strange, but definitely inviting place to visit.

http://www.ele-mental.org/~ecc/exo/e...searticle.html

A Life In The Death Of JOE MEEK

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=393 99873

This was screened in Sheffield last week, I think.


Project Prostitues is alo a great site where you can submit your drawings and paintings of prostitutes:
http://www.projectprostitute.com/index.html

Foreword by Frank M. YoungJoe Meek's story is that of a man who triumphed over obstacles. Whether these obstacles were the repressive, conformist record labels and studios of pre-Beatles Britain, or not being able to sing in key, read music, or play an instrument, the producer/songwriter's apparent motto was "never say never."


As these, er, remarkable songwriting demos show, Meek had a definite ear for a catchy tune. He could also create simple, clever turns of pop-song phrase. Unlike, say, Carole King or Burt Bacharach, Joe couldn't convey his songs in a clean, clear, easy-to-get manner.
He could wail like a banshee, bang on pots and pans, stomp the floorboards and turn up the reverb to 11. Meek did all this, and more, whenever he got the notion to create a new popular song for one of his recording acts.


It was up to his associates with more conventional musical talent--David Adams, Geoff Goddard, arranger Charles Blackwell, and future heavy-metal icon Ritchie Blackmore--to translate Joe's caterwauling into structured, AABA hit material.
Meek can be a winning vocalist, as evinced here by his bouncy-creepy demo of "He's All Mine." His was the talent of just missing the note, sometimes by a hair. What he lacked in accuracy, he made up for--in spades--in over-the-top vocal dramatics. At times, he sounds like a tent-revival preacher about to talk in tongues.


Given Meek's hair-trigger temper, and his increasing tendency to fly into rages, I don't imagine it was any Sunday picnic for Adams, Goddard, et al to be handed off a typical Joe Meek demo. Just getting at what Joe heard in his head, in the first place, would have been a challenge.
Meek was fond of singing along to totally inappropriate backing tracks to other records. Sometimes he'd slow them down, sometimes he'd play them Chipmunk-fast, jamming wrong chord sequences and phrasings over the pre-fab backgrounds he fished out of the chaos at his home studio.
Meek did work with Adams and Goddard, and you can hear him working with Adams on the song "As Time Goes By" here, apparently in a good mood and receptive to his partner's ideas. For every peaceful moment such as this, there may have been 20 Yosemite Sam-esque flipouts. Meek was an unpredictable soul, to say the least.


Though Meek's otherworldly wailings would've never seen release back in the day, to modern ears his vocal stylings are pretty amazing. There is passion in his singing, lots of passion--a hint of madness, a soupcon of pathos and an unmistakable pride and sense of humor.
To enjoy Joe Meek's demos does require a sense of humor, and an appreciation of the absurd. Out of these moans and groans came the likes of "Telstar," a global chart-topper that also made a pre-Beatles hit in the US. A producer of daring, innovation and sometimes surprising grace, Joe Meek the singer was a different beast entirely. To this Mr. Hyde of pop, I respectfully bow my head, tip my hat, and brace myself for the music we are all about to hear. - Frank M. Young

The mp3's are on here: http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/037/index.html

the tornados.................

April 17, 2008

High School Pierre Schaeffers

 

Jack Dangers (Tino Corp, Meat Beat Manifesto) just compiled a pretty great CD of assorted electronic music pieces recorded through the years 1968-84 by high school kids. The cover is culled from an LP that seems to be from the Gloucester (Mass.?) Public School's Electronic Music lab from the 1970's, but it's unfortunately lacking any other info besides the names of the kids doing the pieces, and the titles of the tracks. The disc is only available on Meat Beat's tourstops, but will probably be available in limited form thereafter. Check out a few:



Randy Kaplan "Emission-Embossment" (MP3)
David Brown "Willy Reverb" (MP3)
Kenneth Ranales "Mind Clash" (MP3)
Beth Bolton/Mag Johnson "Vietnam-Love It Or Leave It" (MP3)

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/mp3s/index.html

Oh, nice thread.

I have mama!milk to offer, a Japanese duo who describe their music as 'cinema for the ears'.



http://www.myspace.com/mamamilkkyoto

Thanks Danny, I'll check that out.

Right-click on the title of the track in yellow and ''save target''.

Check pm's.

Another fantastic piece of music:

Here's an experimental record from 1980, featuring the side long "Formal and Informal Music." It's performed by three musicians and led by the electronics guy Tom Hamilton. I can best describe it as an oscillating electronic bee-hive with beautiful woodwind solo's by J.D. Parran and percussion by Rich O'Donnell. Especially the flute segment is amazing, as is the percussion solo with what sounds like gongs and gamelan. Strangely exotic. I recorded four bids that are the highlights of the track.

http://waxidermy.com/images/formal&informalmusic.jpg


Audio: 1 formal & informal music
Although it's experimental, I find it to be very relaxing.


keith fullerton whitman on October 2nd, 2006 @ 12:22 am
tom hamilton is nothing short of amazing. seek out the first somnath lp “pieces for kohn” for an amazing solo modular synth freakout of little compare… -k

http://waxidermy.com/2006/10/01/form...nformal-music/

messer chups are cool...as far as retro b-movie ufo aliens and/or zombie invasion sci fi soundtrack/50s horror movie surf garage bands (from russia) go

or perhaps some real space music? http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/

That space audio website is way cool.

Tape findings:


Welcome to Tape Findings. This site is an archive of one of a kind cassette tape recordings and other odd sounds that I have discovered throughout my years searching thrift stores and garage sales. I hope you find them as fascinating as I do. Enjoy!
http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/

without going uber-retro, have any of you heard gotan project? it's sort of chillout tango left-wing electronica. pretty good on occasion. just bought one of their CDs

http://www.gotanproject.com/

^^ listen a bit.

i also do like what was my local band

http://www.thieverycorporation.com/

these guys lived mere blocks away from me. always pleasant lounge music.

but maybe i'm off topic.

No, you're not off topic. Yes, I've heard of gotan project before.

Outsider Music?

maybe...

http://www.conelrad.com/greene/janetgreene_songbook.php




"Be careful of the Commie lies, swallow them and freedom dies: The USA must realize that she's the biggest prize."

Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos



Some great pro-shot live videos;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WT0j8-h55TA "Aqui Como Alla"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zLM0z0SdMX8 "Jaguey"

They are very sexy live.

Some more names worth keeping an ear out:

Bernard Estardy
Eric Siday (particularly his ''Musique Electronique'')
Oronzo De Filippi
Puccio Roelens
Felice Fugazza

I bought Las Tandas De Juan Garcia Esquivel the other day, it's great music to cook to. His follow-up, To Love Again, is even further out there. What a nutter.