lundi 6 avril 2020

Between Music - Aquasonic





Here's a compilation I made of the experimental/ambient Danish group, Between Music; gathering together tracks they released on their YouTube channel into an album of some sort.

1. On The Surface
2. Under The Surface
3. Concurrently
4. Homage To Water
5. Breaking The Surface
6. Bones Of Bruised Houses

"Five performers submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions that are both eerily melodic and powerfully resonant. AquaSonic is the culmination of years of research into the exciting possibilities of submerged musical performance, breaking barriers and challenging existing paradigms. The artists conducted countless experiments in collaboration with deep-sea divers, instrument makers and scientists to develop entirely new, highly specialized subaqueous instruments. These include an underwater organ or hydraulophone, crystallophone, rotacorda, percussion and violin. The team also perfected a distinctive vocal technique for underwater singing. The result is a concert experience completely out of the ordinary; a deep dive into a magical new universe of images and sounds. After 10 years of work, AquaSonic had it’s world premiere in the Netherlands in 2016. It is now a viral phenomenon and the concert is requested all over the world."

  The result is sonically and visually mind-blowing, see for yourself:



Also included is Laila Skovmand's track "Bones of Bruised Houses", see the very Lynch-esque video clip above.

mercredi 19 février 2020

Ange - Cauchemar (singles + rarities 1970-1972)


A compilation of french progressive rock's band Ange first recordings.
Including their first three 45rpm recordings; Israël w/ Cauchemar (1970), Tout feu, tout flamme w/ Docteur Man (1971) and Le soleil est trop vert w/ Le vieux de la montagne (1972).

Also included is "Zup" an instrumental track recorded live in march 1971 (from the album Live 1970-1971), "Les vieux livres" (an outtake recorded at Studios Davout in april 1972 for the album Caricatures) and "Carnaval" (recorded in october 1972 at Château d'Hérouville, during the Cimetière des arlequins sessions).

I remastered all the tracks from the best sources available, to match the 2013 Japanese SHMCD masters.

01. Carnaval
02. Le soleil est trop vert
03. Les vieux livres
04. Tout feu, tout flamme
05. Zup "Interlude"

06. Docteur Man
07. Le vieux de la montagne
08. Israël
09. Cauchemar