Tag: El Records
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Before Brillo Box or Banana: Music With The Album Cover Art of Andy Warhol -El records
I’ve spent countless hours over the years thinking about Andy Warhol’s Art so much so that I’ve not given much thought to the music he liked. This collection of music pieces together tracks from albums which Warhol designed, or was involved with designing the covers for, when cover art was just that, Art. Before hitting…
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John Cage – Lollipops – El Records
Where does John Cage exist? Begin and end? The answer to that question lies somewhere. “If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.†John Cage “Without John Cage, much of what happens in modern music and art would not be possible.†Frank Zappa When you think about…
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I’d Love To Turn You On – Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture – él Records
A beautifully realised collection music that sees worlds collude in the interplay between sound, revolution and flying colours. Sometime in the 1960’s artists such as The Beatles took note of what was happening in the counter-cultural stream of consciousness populated by the Avant Garde. They, of course, had been tinkering at the edges of what…
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JOE MEEK РI Hear A New World: The Pioneers Of Electronic Music, An Outer Space Music Fantasy Р̩l records
Joe Meek was a troubled genius who helped define the use of electronics in popular music. Not the most avant-garde as the likes of John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Luciano Berio and György Ligeti ripped up the music sheet of conventional thinking in ways beyond what anyone else at the time was doing, but none the…
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Movie Goer : Pop Cinema And The Classics – El Records
The word Joy popped into my head when I opened the box to reveal what lay within this tastefully packaged compilation of gems from the history of movie soundtracks. So it turned out to be entirely relevant as this selection charts moments of elation, alongside deeper darker terrain. From outright Classical via the brilliance of…
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Karlheinz Stockhausen – Adventures In Sound – Él Records
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a prolific composer and creator/ manipulator of sound. He lived between 1928 and 2007 in which time he composed some 376 works. His legacy and the ideas incorporated within last and inspire to this day, perhaps in ways that you may not even be aware of. Beginning to compose pieces at the…
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Kubrick’s Music: Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick – EL Records
Kubrick’s very best films were steeped in mystery which required you to think beyond what lay in front of you on the screen. Things you witness sat in the memory, sometimes identifying themselves, creating the underlying sense of unease: HAL. I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. You’ll remember that dialogue from 2001:…
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