Tangerine Dream - Livemiles (1988)

So here it is, the last TD post, and an album that marked another departure - this time of Chris Franke, who'd been a constant in the lineup since the early 70s.  In the grand tradition of Tangerine Dream's official live albums occasionally containing live music, Livemiles features half an hour of edited and studio-polished highlights from Franke's final concert in August 1987, but before that, features half an hour purporting to be from a concert in Albuquerque in June 1986.

Alternate cover art used on some reissues

When asked why the first side of Livemiles shares absolutely no music in common with audience tapes from the Albuquerque concert, Froese only ever deflected along the lines of "well, we did play that music at some point on that tour".  Whatever the source though, Livemiles: Albuquerque is still a good four-section piece of music.  Starting from a fourteen-minute buildup and ending on a stately, anthemic melody, it finds this short-lived trio lineup on fine form, but Livemiles: Berlin is better.  In three sections of around nine minutes apiece, the lovely Caspian Sea section gives way to the more rhythmically driven Velvet Autumn/Sunnyvale (these titles were announced during a concert broadcast, so I think are canon), then Dolphin Dance from Underwater Sunlight draws it to a close.  So the Berlin track is a very good patchwork of a few highlights from Franke's last concert, but there's more...

 

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Bonus post: Tangerine Dream live at Reichstagsgelände, West Berlin, 1st August 1987

...here's the whole thing.  As mentioned above, the open-air concert in West Berlin with which Franke bowed out was broadcast in full, so recordings made for an excellent quality source to use in the Tangerine Tree fan project.  The Livemiles: Berlin sections can be heard in their rawer form, the band's recent albums are all touched on (including instrumental versions of Tyger tracks - yay, listenable Tyger!), some of their film and video music is featured, and Haslinger's solo piano spot takes in themes going right back to Richocet and Pergamon.  Sure, the sound might be a bit slick and everything segues just a bit too perfectly (long-standing rumours of backing tapes abound), but I love this recording as a two-hour deep dive into the sound of mid-late 80s TD.

 

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Previously posted at SGTG:

Electronic Meditation

Alpha Centauri  

Zeit

Atem 

Phaedra (scroll past main post)

Rubycon & Richochet

Stratosfear
Encore

Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram

Pergamon

Thief 

Exit

White Eagle 
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Poland

Le Parc

Underwater Sunlight

Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight (1986)

Jumping five years this time in TD history from the last post, to land squarely in the 'blue' years on Jive Electro.  The departure of Johannes Schmoelling in 1985 was for a long time my cut-off point for enjoying Tangerine Dream, but uncritical listening to this 1986 release reveals lots still left to love.  Froese plays more guitar on this one, Franke was still around for another year or two to bolster the sound, and of course Schmoelling had a replacement in the 23-year old Austrian pianist Paul Haslinger.

A classically-trained pianist who'd been playing jazz in Viennese clubs, Haslinger soon acclimated to the electronic trio and its armoury of new equipment.  There was still room for Haslinger's considerable piano talents, with an early highlight of this album's first side suite being his gorgeous solo at the halfway point.  The 19-minute Song Of The Whale may be the highlight of this aquatic-themed record, but the more uptempo tracks are fun too, even if we're well on the way from the 'electronic rock' TD of the early 80s to comfortably new age territory.  Some fine guitar work from Froese prevents things from ever becoming bland.  The final deep-sea ambience of Underwater Twilight rounds off the album well.

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Bonus post: Tangerine Dream live at WDR Sendsaal, Cologne, 29 March 1986

Just prior to recording Underwater Sunlight, the new TD lineup undertook a month-long European tour, almost all of it in the UK followed by a single show in Cologne and one in Paris.  From the Cologne concert, the first hour exists as a radio broadcast recording, so makes for a nice short entry in the Tangerine Tree series that gives a flavour of the pre-album tour.  Material that wouldn't be included in Underwater Sunlight is particularly interesting here, such as the lengthy Akash Deep and its coda Beneath The Waves, Coloured Rain and The Cool Breeze Of Brighton (I understand at least some of these titles were fan-assigned and have since become semi-canon).  The opening re-work of the Stratosfear title track is good to hear too, as is a Haslinger solo piano spot which includes his eventual Song Of The Whale bridging section.

 

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Previously posted at SGTG:

Electronic Meditation

Alpha Centauri  

Zeit

Atem 

Phaedra (scroll past main post)

Rubycon & Richochet

Stratosfear
Encore

Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram

Pergamon

Thief 

Exit

White Eagle 
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Poland

Le Parc

Tangerine Dream - Atem (1973)

Tangerine Dream in the early 70s were making great strides with each album, and now settled into their trio lineup, with this fourth album edged closer to their breakthrough sound.  The grand sweep of mellotron that opens the 20 minute title track was key to this - although Franke's thundering drums still looked back to the sound of Alpha Centauri, Froese's mellotron had established itself in the TD armoury, and Phaedra was only a year away.

Then after five and a half minutes of this dramatic introduction, Atem changes gear into becalmed ambience for the rest of its runtime - another harbringer of the near future.  Three pieces make up the second side of the original LP, starting with the humid junglescape of Fauni-Gena, looking forwards in this case to Froese's second solo album.  Circulation Of Events has the most proto-Phaedra eerie ambience of the whole album - towards the end of the mellotron/organ-dominated piece, a synth pulse gives a foretaste of the epic Berlin-school sequences just around the corner.  TD end the album with one more nod back to their more avant-garde beginnings with the vocal intro to Wahn.  After this they'd become electronic legends.

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Previously posted at SGTG:

Electronic Meditation

Alpha Centauri  

Zeit

Phaedra (scroll past main post)

Rubycon & Richochet

Stratosfear
Encore

Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram

Pergamon

Exit

White Eagle 
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Poland

Le Parc

Tangerine Dream - Zeit (1972)

On to the third of four albums making up Tangerine Dream's 'pink years' on the Ohr label, and we land on their first double album, and possibly the most audacious experiment of their career: a "Largo in four movements", each one taking up a side of vinyl.  The classic trio lineup of Froese, Franke and Baumann is now in place, but the Berlin School sequences are still a couple of years away.  Far from being ambient music that floats pleasantly in space, this is dark, heavy sound with enough gravitational pull to suck in planets (I thought for ages that album art was meant to represent a black hole, before figuring out it's just an eclipse, but it still looks great for the sounds within).

Joining the core lineup for Zeit were Steve Schroyder, making his final appearance on organ, and Popol Vuh's Florian Fricke, bringing his giant modular Moog as he was one of only a couple of German owners of the beast of an instrument at the time.  Fricke is featured on all tracks except the second movement.  Four cellists were also invited along, creating the memorable drone that introduces the album.  The resulting double-LP wasn't particularly well received, Ohr unsure how to market such a behemoth - but the right people were listening, including John Peel in England, who would become an even more important figure with the release of Zeit's follow-up.

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Previously posted at SGTG:

Electronic Meditation

Alpha Centauri 

Phaedra (scroll past main post)

Rubycon & Richochet

Stratosfear
Encore

Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram

Pergamon

Exit

White Eagle 
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Poland

Le Parc

Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang ‎- Atmosphères (2016)

Double album of atmospheric improvisations / ambient jazz / just great music, from the combination of four of ECM's most interesting latter-day musicians.  Armenian pianist Hamasyan was joined for this three-day recording session in Italy by Norwegians Henrisken on trumpet, Aarset on guitar/electronics, and Bang on electronics/sampling.

The backbone of Atmosphères is the ten-part Traces suite, with a handful of compositions by Hamasyan's national legend Komitas threaded through it.  With no drummer, and the suite only occasionally catching fire (such as Parts 2 and 7), the main mode of expression is free-floating, wispy ambience.  I remember buying Atmosphères on its release, and taking a while to really warm to it - but it's well worth sticking with, everything here equally rewards background listening or close attention.

Disc 1 link

Disc 2 link

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Tigran Hamasyan at SGTG:

Luys I Luso

Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang at SGTG:

Dream Logic

Tom Newman - Bayou Moon (1985)

Okay, in that cover image we may have a literal example of 80s New Age looming large over the artistic stylings of a musician/producer who'd been around since the 70s, but I do like this one for its guitar sounds and atmospherics.  Tom Newman is perhaps best known for helping a certain latterday space-botherer build the Manor Studio and launch the careers of Virgin Records and Mike Oldfield, and he released three prog-ish solo albums between '75 and '77.

Come the mid 80s, Newman signed with Coda (a new age imprint of Beggars Banquet) for a couple of releases, Bayou Moon being the first.  Intending to evoke "the swamplands and the everglades of the Mississippi Delta", the album has a fair bit of Paris Texas-esque guitar twanging that sounds very nice, particularly when the backing isn't too busy, such as on Fur Traders Descending The Missouri and Voodoo De Bayou.  Moonrise is a particularly interesting track in its arrangement, with a large synth swell midway through giving way to a jaunty harmonica/percussion/synth section.  In fact, the only real stinkers here are Gumbo Fling and its three reprises - seriously, it will get on your nerves so much by the end it's perhaps advisable to just skip each iteration.

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Brian Eno - Before And After Science (1977)

For his last in a run of art-rock-based albums in the 1970s, Eno assembled the cream of the musicians he'd worked with thus far (including members of Roxy Music, Brand X and Cluster - I ran out of space in the tags to list every name), and recorded over a hundred possible tracks over two years.  This was whittled down to ten that were a summation of the quirky avant-pop/rock sound he'd established, and also looked forward to his increasingly ambient interests.

Overlapping in part with the time Eno spent with Bowie in Berlin, Before And After Science plays well against Low & Heroes, not least on King's Lead Hat (also anagrammatic of future collaborators), and has several krautrock touch points too.  The lyrics on opener No One Receiving look forwards to The Belldog on After The Heat, and Moebius & Roedelius themselves appear on By This River, giving definitive Cluster & Eno overlap.  Another krautrock guest appearance comes in the form of Jaki Liebezeit's drumming on Backwater.

Energy Fools The Magician aside, the original LP's two sides divide neatly into an uptempo, jagged art-rock side and a sublime pastoral side.  As good as the former is, the latter takes the crown for me in Eno's 70s output: the lovely Here He Comes; the bucolic-melancholic Julie With; the aforementioned Cluster co-write; an ambient instrumental aptly dedicated to Harold Budd, and the gorgeous closer Spider & I (thought by some to be about Bowie).  Outside of his purely ambient work, Eno really doesn't get better than this.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
Another Green World
Cluster & Eno 

After The Heat
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (with Harold Budd)

Ambient 4: On Land
Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks (with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno)
The Pearl (with Harold Budd & Daniel Lanois)

Tangerine Dream - Poland (1984)

Back into my favourite TD era of Froese, Franke & Schmoelling for this Friday and next, with a stunning double live album captured on their December 1983 visit to Poland (with some later studio overdubs).  The liner notes evoke a major triumph over adversity, with political/bureaucratic hurdles giving way to freezing weather conditions that wreaked havoc on the tour, but it was all worth it to produce such great music with this TD lineup at the top of its game.

On record, Poland was split into four side-long tracks, with the second side encore Rare Bird occasionally split out into its own track on releases such as this one.  First up is the album's title track, establishing a hypnotic pattern very much in keeping with Hyperborea tracks like No Man's Land and featuring some great solos, before moving into a slow section that eventually gets into gear with its sequencers.  Tangent is similarly multi-faceted (as are all the tracks, in fact), including the catchy third section that was excerpted for a 12" single release as Polish Dance, as was the short track Rare Bird.

From side three of the original vinyl, Barbakane is in three sections, with the first and third being starker, spacier pieces, and in the middle is the beautifully melodic Warsaw In The Sun, which headed up the aformentioned 12" single.  Last but not least is Horizon, that initially harks back the most to the ambient, gaseous TD of old.  It too picks up after four minutes though (and those sequencers in the final section are absolutely ferocious!), to remind us that we're in the slick, rhythmically-driven Schmoelling era - for my money, the very best of Tangerine Dream.

Disc 1 link

Disc 2 link

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Previously posted at SGTG:
Phaedra (scroll past main post)

Stratosfear
Encore

Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - After The Heat (1978)

The second Cluster & Eno album (link to first one below), this time credited to their three individual names - perhaps with the more pervasive Eno influence, this one was felt to be a truer three-way collaboration.  

 

After The Heat is well named: there's a fair amount of cold and dark among the drifting ambient atmospheres on this album, and in the more rhythmic tracks like Foreign Affairs and The Belldog, the latter with a suitably unsettling Eno vocal.  Eno sings on two more tracks, Broken Head and the reversed vocal of Tzima N'Arki, which is also anchored by a Holger Czukay guest spot.  And of course, there's the requisite amount of Roedelius piano gorgeousness on Luftschloss and The Shade.

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Previously posted at SGTG: Cluster & Eno

Harold Budd 1936-2020

 

R.I.P. Harold Budd, 24 May 1936 - 8 December 2020

 

Harold Budd, ambient/modern classical musician and composer, has died at the age of 84 after decades of creating some of the world's most sublime music.

Posts at SGTG:

The Oak Of The Golden Dreams

The Plateaux Of Mirror

The Pearl

Music For Three Pianos

 

And here's another I never got around to posting before: The Serpent In Quicksilver/Abandoned Cities.  Usual password, sgtg.  It's a compilation of a typically gorgeous, languid EP and an LP of two darker ambient ventures.  Thanks Harold for so much wonderful music.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen & Nils Frahm - Live At The Albert Hall, BBC Proms 2015

Some nice juicy repeats of older concerts in this year's BBC Proms broadcast programme - for obvious reasons, the live schedule had to be significantly downsized.  Here's a stunning event that I missed when it first happened, with another one to be posted next Monday.

As both main artists allude to, this Proms concert was in large part thanks to BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who'd been promoting their music on her show and ended up introducing them live here at the Royal Albert Hall.  A Winged Victory For The Sullen appear first, performing two mini-suites from their Atomos album (see links list below), the languid, melancholy sound given some extra heft by the London Brass.  There was also a visual dimension with the dancers of Studio Wayne McGregor.

After a seamless transition that features a short collaborative improvisation, AWVFTS leave the stage in the hands of Nils Frahm and his pianos, synths & toilet brushes (see image above).  Frahm performs an equally spellbinding set of his Spaces-era (in links list below) material, moving from the sequencer-based Says to a couple of piano pieces, then finishing up with his epic Toilet Brushes/More medley.

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AWVFTS at SGTG:
s/t debut
Atomos
Nils Frahm at SGTG:
The Bells
7Fingers
Felt
Spaces
Collaborative Works

Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land (1982)

Been giving this Eno classic a lot of play in the last week or two, mostly at as low a volume as possible, letting it blend in with the ambient sounds coming through the open windows.  On Land was the last album in Eno's Ambient series, and was created via a kind of "musical composting" from previous recordings and environmental sounds.

Guest musicians give On Land a fresh perspective too, with no less than three on the opening track, including Bill Laswell on bass.  Jon Hassell also contributes trumpet to the all-too-brief Shadow.  As a whole, On Land conjures up (not least from the track titles and liner notes) half-forgotten landscapes from childhood, reconstructed as vague impressions.  It's both one of Eno's most organic-sounding ambient records and most alien, and does get a bit unsettling in places, verging on dark ambient, with the more soothing pieces towards the end.  Essential stuff, endlessly listenable at any volume.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
Another Green World
Cluster & Eno
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (with Harold Budd)
Apollo - Atmospheres & Soundtracks (with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno)
The Pearl (with Harold Budd & Daniel Lanois)

Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale (1975)

Edgar Froese's second solo album, and possibly his best.  Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, which apparently is meant to mean "enveloped in the Malaysian humidity", came after Tangerine Dream had released Rubycon and toured Australia; like Rubycon, it has two side-long tracks.

The first of these is the title track, a lush junglescape of mellotron and a light touch of sequencer, inspired by Froese's visit to Malaysia.  The other is Maroubra Bay, inspired as the name suggests by TD's time in Australia.  After a dark, dramatic opening, it does end up evoking the beach about three minutes in, then sets off on a sequencer journey with plenty of Froese synth and more mellotron.  Both tracks are absolutely essential, timeless electronica.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
Aqua
Ages
Stuntman
Pinnacles
Tangerine Dream at SGTG:
Phaedra (scroll past main post)
Encore
Force Majeure
Tangram
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Edgar Froese - Aqua (1974)

Recorded in Berlin, on either side of the Phaedra sessions in England, Edgar Froese's debut solo album was released a few months after that TD breakthrough landed.  The two records make a great listening experience together, with this one isolating Froese's interest at the time in eerie atmospheres and alien burbling synth experiments.  The fact that he recorded it primarily as a fundraiser for TD equipment doesn't diminish its lasting brilliance.

The German release of Aqua (never digitally reissued) switched the sides and had a different mix in places; anyone heard it/know if it's substantially different?  Anyhow, this standard Virgin issue is an otherwordly experience in its own right - few albums sound more endlessly pleasureable on headphones.  The water sounds on the title track (recorded by Froese in his home), the landing aeroplane sound effects on NGC 891 (recorded in "artificial head" surround-sound) and much more add to the transportive magic.  Next week: a Bowie-approved mellotron paradise.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
Ages
Stuntman
Pinnacles
Tangerine Dream at SGTG:
Phaedra (scroll past main post)
Encore
Force Majeure
Tangram
Logos: Live At The Dominion
Hyperborea

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story - Inlandish (2008)

Stately, melancholy ambience from two masters.  The story (no pun intended) goes that the younger, American musician first met one of his biggest German heroes in 1983, and ended up staying with him in Austria for a week.  Story & Roedelius wouldn't collaborate until over a decade later, but when they did they made a handful of albums together, of which Inlandish was the third.

It's a gorgeous album that bears all the Roedelius hallmarks you'd expect: sparse, affecting melodies on piano cocooned in gentle ambient waftings and burblings.  In this case, the pair worked from Roedelius' piano sketches, with Story filling out the backgrounds.  Occasional beat-driven tracks like Downrivers and Riddled keep a bit of energy going, but mostly this is mellow meditativeness par excellence.

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P.S. - Florian Schneider-Esleben, 1947-2020
R.I.P to one of the founders of electronic music's Big Bang, who has died of cancer at the age of 73. To celebrate Kraftwerk at the outset of their classic era, head over to Electronic Orgy, where they recently re-upped one of the most astonishing concert bootlegs ever taped.  Or hang out here and enjoy Electric Cafe from 80s Kraftwerk, when their contemporaries had began to catch up on them but they still had plenty to offer; or a recent celebration of early Kraftwerk performed by Zeitkratzer.

Nurse With Wound - Creakiness And Other Misdemeanours (2012 compilation, rec. 1991-2005)

A bit of a strange compilation, even by Steven Stapleton's standards.  Creakiness, his 17-minute collage of cartoon-inspired zaniness, had already featured on the Sugar Fish Drink compilation in 1992 (it first appeared as half of a split LP in 1991).  It was still great to have Creakiness back in circulation in 2012, at a time when Sugar Fish Drink was out of print, and it's one of his most fun adventures in sound that always deserves a wider audience.  What was odd this time around was Stapleton's decision to fill out the disc with half an hour of offcuts from his 'Echo Poeme' dark ambient project from 2005, and a single B-side from 2004.  It's all great music though, and hey, who ever said Nurse With Wound had to make any sense.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl
Merzbild Schwet
Insect And Individual Silenced
Homotopy To Marie
Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg's
The Sylvie And Babs High-Thigh Companion
Spiral Insana
Lumb's Sister 
Soliloquy For Lilith
A Sucked Orange / Scrag
Thunder Perfect Mind
Alice The Goon
A Missing Sense
Man With The Woman Face
Salt Marie Celeste
Angry Eelectric Finger: Spitch'cock One
Paranoia In Hi-Fi
The Surveillance Lounge 
Painting With Priests

Tim Story - Glass Green (1987)

A few years down the line from their beginnings in solo instrumental music (see links below), Windham Hill began to diversify into more New Agey world music, jazz fusion, and ambient loveliness like today's post.  So to complete my collection from the label for now, here's the Windham Hill debut (he'd stay for one more release) by Philly-born ambient composer Tim Story.

Glass Green is a fitting album title for this kind of music: bright but diffuse, and beautifully melodic whilst staying on the right side of sacchrine.  It sounds quite digital; Story's hardware used on the record isn't specified, but well employed across ten atmospheric sketches that sometimes bring to mind the Eno & Budd collaborations.  It's also occasionally reminscent of Roedelius from a similar era, someone Story would go on to collaborate with (that's coming up in a week or two), as well as working with Moebius just before the latter's death.

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Windham Hill at SGTG:
Piano Solos | Autumn | December (George Winston)
Solid Colors | Unaccountable Effect (Liz Story)
Southern Exposure (Alex De Grassi)
Breakfast In The Field | Aerial Boundaries (Michael Hedges)
An Evening With Windham Hill Live (Various Artists)

Synergy - Computer Experiments Volume One (1981)

More stochastic composition using computer programming today.  Unlike Iannis Xenakis' work in the early 60s though, there's no jagged, creaking string intstruments here, just 44 minutes of eerily becalmed ambient electronica with an occasional proto-Blade Runner feel.

Between 1975 and 1987, and sporadically afterwards, Synergy was the alias of electronic musician Larry Fast, perhaps best known for his work with Peter Gabriel.  For this particular album Fast utilised a program called Pink Tunes, written by John Simonton of PAiA electronic kits, to send control voltages to a Prophet 5 synth.

The result was the two eleven-minute tracks and one 23-minute track that make up Computer Experiments Volume One (there wouldn't be any subsequent Volumes).  The first track in particular is a thing of shimmering beauty, then the other two dive deeper into more minor-key ambience.  Eno and Vangelis fans should definitely give this a go.

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David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir - Current Circulation (1984)

Time for something droning and meditative in the wake of Monday's frenetic electronica.  David Hykes was born in New Mexico in 1953, and formed the Harmonic Choir in 1975 to explore overtone singing.  This was their second album, mostly recorded in St Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, with the brief solo opening track coming from a concert at the Chapel of St John The Divine, also in NYC a few months earlier.

Current Circulation itself is an epic 32-minute, six part work that takes influences from Tibetan Buddhist chant and Mongolian hoomi singing by holding root notes, adding harmonics, and attempting both in one voice and more.  The technical mastery of this type of vocal work speaks for itself, and you can either marvel at the accomplishments of working this into an intricate choral setting, or just let your mind drift in the gradually shifting clouds of pure sound.

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Previously posted at SGTG: Harmonic Meetings

Nurse With Wound - Man With The Woman Face (2002)

Since Steven Stapleton recently compiled all his "Trippin' Musik" from last year into a box set (that I've yet to explore), why not take a trip back to one of his most eerily psychedelic albums from the early 2000s.  Featuring just three tracks in a succinct 38 minutes, Man With The Woman Face was in hindsight a subtle, understated prelude to the hallucinatory madness unleashed with the Angry Eelectric Finger series.

Beware The African Mosquito (Ring Your Doorbell, Put You To Sleep) is the first extended fever dream that develops from a gently pulsing drone and fluttering, clattering sounds.  Bell tones, snatches of voice and more gradually fill out the lysergic landscape into one of NWW's most striking album openers for some time.   

Ag Canadh Thuas Sa Spèir (Up in the sky, singing) is based around more drones and electronic tones, smudged into a blend of unsettling electronic muck and robotic voice.  Six minutes in, snatches of a full-on Amon Düül style freakout suddenly disrupt, before leaving behind electronic chirruping.  The final 15 minutes plus of White Light From The Stars In Your Mind (A Paramechanical Development) take in even more of a krautrock influence, with a straightup (if speed-shifted) borrowing from early Amon Düül over another pulsing dronescape.  One of the most hypnotic and satisfying NWW records.

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Previously posted at SGTG:
To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl
Merzbild Schwet
Insect And Individual Silenced
Homotopy To Marie
Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg's
The Sylvie And Babs High-Thigh Companion
Spiral Insana
Lumb's Sister 
Soliloquy For Lilith
A Sucked Orange / Scrag
Thunder Perfect Mind
Alice The Goon
A Missing Sense
Salt Marie Celeste
Angry Eelectric Finger: Spitch'cock One
Paranoia In Hi-Fi
The Surveillance Lounge 
Painting With Priests