Various - Exotica Return To Paradise: A History Of Exotica acmem195cd
PREORDER NOW! Released on 20/09/10. Strange, Sultry and Seductive...fierce, fascinating and feverish - here are sounds to quicken the heart-beat; the tropical fantasy of a hidden world. A woman¹s voice calls, hypnotic and compelling; drums repeat the haunting command and the music weaves a spell of mystery. From the early fifties, with the onset of international air travel, Exotica became a massively popular musical trend; making it possible for middleclass Americans to simulate an authentic travelogue experience - to India, Africa, Cuba, or the South Seas - in the comfort of their suburban homes. This public looked to Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Yma Sumac, Korla Pandit or Robert Drasnin to provide (in contrast to the prevailing rock and roll scene) a mystical combination of Oriental, African and Latin sounds, decorated with natural effects gathered from the sea, sky and forest. Exotic music was originally conceived with Ravel's Bolero and Debussy¹s Pagodes. It left the classical world and entered pop through Les Baxter. In 1950 he created Voice of the Xtabay with four octave Peruvian singer Yma Sumac and a year later released the seminal work of exotica, his tone poem Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre Du Sauvage). Les Baxter- Quiet Village / Mozambique / Pool Of Love / Martin Denny - When First I Love / Coronation / Jungle Madness / Robert Drasnin- Chant Of The Moon / Orinco / You / Arthur Lyman - Bwana A / Busy Port / Yma Sumac - Taita Inty (Virgin Of The Sun God) / Frank Hunter And His Orchestra- Strange Echoes / Temple Bells / Gene Rains - Lotus Land / John Mcfarland Sextet - Summer Storm / Watusi / Paul Conrad – Paradise / The Markko Polo Adventurers – Mountain / High, Valley Low / Tak Shindo- Mwanza Market Place / N'ga - The Maiden / Stanley Wilson - Zulu Love Magic / Korla Pandit - Kashmiri Love Song
Various - Musique Concrète Panorama De Musique Concrète acmem196cd
PREORDER NOW! Released on 20/09/10. Musique Concrète is often confused with electronic music, which originated in Germany and which is concerned with the electronic manufacture of sounds built up from basic tones. Musique Concrète makes use of real everyday sounds which are modified by tape manipulation and electronic treatment. From the late forties, the genres two leading exponents have been the French composers Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. If their compositions seem quaint to today s ears, in 1948, their bizarre, brittle, often beautiful, soundscapes were revolutionary. Schaeffer and Henry began their revolt by recording sounds from the natural world onto phonograph discs, altering them through the primitive means available, and creating an alarming music that they dubbed musique concrete Schaeffer and Henry created audio portraits for the end of themachine age and the beginning of the electronic age that burst with mechanical noises, orchestral hits, trains, and text-sound babble. Doors open and close on indecipherable conversations; engines start, stop and transform into screams and moans; disembodied pianists jam with mouth noise rhythm sections. Now, almost 60 years later, the scratches on the records they used give this vanguard work a charming, antique quality. Their methods may seem archaic by contemporary standards, but the resulting music is powerfully evocative by any standards. Apostles include Bill Nelson ( enviromental guitar ), Brian Eno and Holger Czukay. Out-of-print for decades, A PANORAMA OF MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE is the movement’s essential historic document. Classique - Bidule en Ut (Trifle in C) Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer / Études Instrumentals (Instrumental Studies) - Batterie fugace (Fleeting Percussion) Pierre Henry / Flûte mexicaine (Mexican Flute) Pierre Schaeffer / Deux Aspects De Piano - Étude pour piano (Study for Piano) Pierre Schaeffer / Final du concerto des ambiguités (Finale of the Concerto of Ambiguities) Pierre Henry / Tam -Tam III Pierre Henry / Expressionisme 1952 - Musique sans titre (Music without a Title) - Pierre Henry / Cinquième mouvement (Fifth Movement) / Fête foraine (Fun Fair) / PRIMITIF 1948 - Étude aux tourniquets (Study for Whirligigs) Pierre Schaeffer / Cantate Dramatique - Le Voile D'Orphée (The Veil of Orpheus) Pierre Henry / TROIS DIRECTIONS - Étude aux chemins de fer (Railway Study) Pierre Schaeffer / Étude pathétique (Study in Pathos) Pierre Schaeffer / Boîte à musique (Musical Box) Philippe Arthuys / SERIAL ESSAYS - Antiphonie (Antiphony) (12 pitches - 12 durations – 12 silences) - Pierre Henry / Vocalises- Son et transposition chromatique (On 1 pitch and chromatic transposition) Pierre Henry / CLASSIQUE- Symphonie pour un homme seul (Symphony for a Man Alone) Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry / Prosopopée 1 / Partitia / Valse / Erotica / Scherzo/ Prosopopée / Eroica / Apostrophe / Intermezzo / Cadence / Strette / Genre Piece - L'Oiseau RAI (R.A.I. Bird) Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart acmem52cd
Released on 02/05/10 Almost immediately after the demise of The Monkees in 1970, there was industry clamour for a reunion and publisher Christian Dewalden came forward with an offer to finance the project. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were enthusiastic but asMike Nesmith wasn t interested and Peter Tork couldn’t be found a kind of pseudo-Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written The Monkees first number one Last Train To Clarksville, The Monkees Theme (Hey, Hey We re The Monkees) and (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone. So Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart was born. With the Monkees logo under copyright and not available for their use, the foursome set off on tour as the great golden hits of the Monkees - the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em. Right Now / I Love You (And I'm Glad That I Said It) / You And I / Teenager In Love / Sail On Sailor / It Always Hurts More In The Morning / Moonfire / You Didn't Feel That Way Last Night (Don't You Remember) / Along Came Jones / Savin' My Love For You / I Remember The Feeling / Sweet Heart Attack
Ennio Morricone Happening acmem58cd
Released on 02/08/10. his album is the fifth of our very successful El's themed Ennio Morricone compilations. "Morricone Happening" is a psychedelic montage with the centrepiece being the music from three important soundtracks from the maestro's oeuvre; "The Serpent" (Yul Brynner, Dirk Bogarde, Henry Fonda), "Bluebeard"(Richard Burton) and "Burn!" (Marlon Brando's best screen performance). With this album we reach the point where Mojo and Q should be writing about Ennio Morricone as the master of psychedelia. Barbablu / Barbablu Romantico / Preludio Alla Prima Moglie / Quemada Secondo / Studi Per Un Finale (Secondo) / Scherzi A Parte From Giu La Testa / Astratto / Organo Allegro / Scene D Amore / Organo Liturgio / Samba In Tribunale / Mariangela E La Seduzione (Alternate) / Ballabile No 1 / Ballabile No 2 / Ballabile No 3 / Ballabile No 4 / Ballabile No 5 / Terrazza Vuota / Ric Happening / Allegretto Burlesco / Pazzia In Cielo / L Aliante / Erotico Mistico / Knowing The Ins & Outs / Qui Ci Scappa Il Mortol
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Pierre Boulez New Directions In Music acmem193cd
Released on 16/08/10. Karlheinz Stockhausen was hailed as the prophet of a new world of sound and a composer of unarguable greatness. He has also been attacked for his mystical, semi-hippie philosophy and for his impenetrable music. Not since Stravinsky has a composer generated such excitement and controversy. His concerts in Europe, America, Japan and the Middle East offered a new kind of musical ritual, and his following amongst the young is such that one critic has called him the Pied Piper of Youth. Stockhausen appears in Peter Blakes' famous collage for the front cover of Sgt Pepper and inspired The Beatles to experiment with techniques ranging from the use of reversed tape to the total abandonment of metre and melody - evidenced most notably on Revolution 9. New Directions In Music includes Stockhausen’s Étude (the composer’s first experimentation in musique concrète, and David Tudor s premiere recording of all four movements of Klavierstück XI. These works are complimented by Robert Craft’s historic New Directions in Music album comprising Stockhausens Zeitmasse (Time-measures) for five woodwinds and Pierre Boulez Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer without a Master). Karlheinz Stockhausen - Étude Concrète / Nr. 5 Zeitmasse (time-Measures) For Five Woodwinds / Pierre Boulez -Le Marteau Sans Maître (The Hammer Without A Master) / Avant "L'artisanat Furieux" (Before "The Furious Craftsmanship") Commentaire I De "Bourreaux De Solitude" (First Commentary On "Hangmen Of Solitude") / L'artisanat Furieux" ("The Furious Craftsmanship") / Commentaire Ii De "Bourreaux De Solitude" (Second Commentary On "Hangmen Of Solitude") / Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments", Version Première ("Stately Building And Presentiments", First Version) / Bourreaux De Solitude" ("Hangmen Of Solitude") / Après "L'artisanat Furieux" (After "The Furious Craftsmanship") / Commentaire Iii De "Bourreaux De Solitude" (Third Commentary On "Hangmen Of Solitude") /. Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments", Double ("Stately Building And Presentiments", Again) / Karlheinz Stockhausen- Klavierstück xi/1/ klavierstück xi/2 / klavierstück xi/3 / klavierstück xi/4
John Cage Fontana Mix acmem194cd
Released on 16/08/ 10. Whether one agrees with his ideas or appreciates his art, anyone interested in the culture of the twentieth century, its philosophy, sociology and history, needs to know about John Cage. David Revill. John Cage – The Roaring Silence 1992 The desire to find new sounds and to abandon the traditional role of the composer as a controlling authority were hallmarks of John Cage’s career and made him at once a revered and reviled figure in modern music. Composer, philospher, poet, graphic artist and mycologist (authority on mushrooms), the pioneering Cage used carefully structured segments of time and filled them with sound materials derived by chance processes such as the rolling of a dice or the use of the I Ching. In perhaps the ultimate and most outrageous - statement of the aesthetic, he wrote 4 33, a piece involving total silence on the part of the performer, into which the random sounds of the world enter. John Cage s legacy extends far beyond the world of contemporary classical music. After him, no one could look at a painting, a book, or a person without wondering how they might sound if you listened closely. Fontana Mix / First Construction In Metal / Music For Carillon No. 1 / Williams Mix / The City Wears A Slouch Hat / Music Of Changes