Greetings good folk of the internet. We hope you are all well and that you are seated pleasantly. Maybe you have a cat, let's hope so eh? All events are increasing in size and scope now, though it's all far from over yet. Expect to hear many lies before breakfast so best to ignore the television .................................................
We are delighted to present to you a new musical 'track' for the entertainment of your lovely ears. It is titled 'Indian Summer Dream' and features the vocal 'talents' of a young gentleman named Jim Morrison. No we'd never heard of him either but apparently he's quite the thing ......................................................
Download it if you can and annoy all your friends with your questionable musical taste. Oh! and summers coming, do try to have fun and remember to be a bit nicer to people. We thank you for your attention. Good-night!.................................................
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.......................................................It is the winter of 1989 and a shortwave radio is being tuned and retuned. The air is full of shifting patterns of voices, static and distortion. In the dark hours of the night these voices are studied and examined and finally distilled through electronic apparatus into a magnetic recording.
These pieces of music and sound were recorded in 1989 using the basic tools of a shortwave radio, a cassette tape player, a tiny Yamaha SK5 sampling keyboard with a sampling time of a couple of seconds and no reliable memory and a Yamaha R100 digital reverb. These were recorded onto a Fostex X15.
Like Clocks achieved a method of reverse echo by reversing the original sample, playing it through a long echo and then removing the tape and turning it over so that the sample is now the right way round again but the echo is reversed. It is also a piece about love and time and the futility of most forms of government.
Eva Garbo uses the SK5s turgid pre-programmed drums as an intentionally ironic grid template. The singer is taken out of all appropriate context and is subject to the fine splices of random sampling. There is also some violin playing saucily in the background. A must for all fans of Schoenberg.
Radio Voices has some lovely bass frequencies in its first standard shortwave part and after a short tingling segue a backwards thunderstorm is introduced to the confusion and delight of the dying crowd. This thunderstorm was recorded remotely in Wales during a thunderstorm. A fire alarm can be heard going off near the end/beginning of the storm, a special treat for all of those with a good ear.
Check! has as its subject a grand celestial game in which all of the pieces of the chessboard float with uncertainty around the various spheres of existence. The film "A Matter Of Life And Death" with David Niven should be viewed for a fuller understanding of this track.
We hope you enjoy this representation of the sonic landscape of the late 1980s and have as much fun listening to these pieces of sound as you are capable of.
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