Various Artists - CMCD
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RERCMCD
"Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory traditionally overlooked in collections of this medium.
This is the classic collection of Contemporary, Concrete, Tapeworked and Processed works - and an indispensable survey of a crucial field:
It comprises: John Oswald's 'Parade', a complex work drawn and extended from Satie's celebrated ballet composition of 1917; Georg Katzer's monumental 'Aide Memoire' ('7 nightmares from the 1000 year night'), a terrifying document of collage, electronic manipulation, original composition and sound documents from 1933-45; Lutz Glandien's exquisitely economical, sonically powerful and surprising 'Es Lebe' for Tape and Tuba; Steve Moore's groundbreaking 'A Quiet Gathering' (chamber music for environmental sounds) - a multi-layered 22 minute work made only from captured non-musical materials; Jaroslav Krcek's miniature electronic gem based on nightingale songs and the proto-plunder legend 'Ommagio a Jerry Lee Lewis' by Richard Trythall.
An indispensable collection in my view. Generous book and pictures."-Chris Cutler
1 John Oswald : Parade
Alto Saxophone, Producer – John Oswald
Arranged By [Keyboard Arrangement] – John Oswald, Paul Plimley
Guitar – Alex Varty
Sampler [Sam Sampling Programme] – Henry Kaiser
2 Georg Katzer : Aide Mémoire
Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Dietmar Nauk
Recorded By [Sound Recordist] – Lothar Huebner
3 Lutz Glandien : Es Lebe
Engineer – Georg Morawietz
Tuba – Michael Vogt
4 Steve Moore : A Quiet Gathering
5 Jaroslav Krcek : Sonaty Slavickove
Engineer – Stanislav Sykora
Text By – Jan Korinek
6 Richard Trythall : Ommagio A Jerry Lee Lewis