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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Electropleinair Sound Diary
t i t l e : The Wind Rises
d a t e : 1978
l a b e l : ReR
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : May/2004
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 61,6 MB
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Istvan Martha is a leading Hungarian composer, equally at home
in classical, industrial and experimental rock music. His
minimalist rock album "Hearts" became a cult classic in the
early 80's. In 1986 Hungaraton, the Hungarian state record
company, commissioned him to produce two albums of "Switched on
Mozart". He agreed on the condition that he would be funded to
produce an album of absolutely anything he wanted to do! Thus
The Wind Rises was born, and released to critical acclaim in
1987.
The idea behind The Wind Rises was to take a recording studio
into the Transylvanian countryside, and make an album "in the
open air", a "Sound Diary" of village sounds, musicians, and
recorded them on location. It was all bound together with state
of the art studio and production techniques.
They produced one of the great albums of the decade, an epic
which manages to work as an overwhelming fusion of rock,
classical, ambient, industrial and folk styles. The album
combines found sounds with mediaeval instruments, industrial
percussion, excerpts from an operetta as if performed by
Laibach, startlingly aggressive cymbalon, a cast of thousands,
the astonishing traditional singing of Mßrta SebestyΘn, and
guttural saxophones rising out of the mist. Some of the music
was improvised on location, some scored for early music
ensembles, rock bands and traditional instrumentalists.
Especially featured are jazz saxophonist Lazlo Des, the
Cymbalon player Kalman Balog, the Amandinda percussion
ensemble, and the WYXIMFONIC orchestral group.
The whole piece is structured as a dream, which sucks you in to
the ancient spiritual struggles of rural Hungarian life, and
expands to take on national oppression, surreaslism and post
modernism.
The Wind Rises was conceived by Istvan Martha in collaboration
with:
Endre Skarosi texts, vocals. Endres is known for his Hungarian
rock groups "Konnektor RT" and for his work with UK group
Towering Inferno on their album "Kaddish". He has published
several volumes of poetry, and edits a leading Hungarian
literary journal.
Sandor Bernath guitar, vocals, suck & blow. Sandor designed
instrumental and sonic backdrops for the album, and structured
the hours of recording into a coherent whole. He is a leader of
gothic punk band "Matushka Silversound", and is a well known
graphic designer.
Marta Sebestyen vocals. Well know as the lead vocalist with
traditional outfit Muzicas, on such recordings as The Lost
Jewish Music of Transylvania. She has recently been heard on
the sound track of the Oscar winning movie The English Patient.
This album was produced at a time when musicians in the Eastern
Bloc were forced to develop an allegorical language to bypass
communist censorship, and ironically this helped them to
produce exciting new artistic forms. The album attained cult
status on its first release, and ReR is proud to introduce it
to a wider audience. It's an extraordinary, passionate and
totally convincing album.
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01-The Wind Rises [08:20]
02-Work Song [02:06]
03-Timberyard [02:28]
04-Church [03:37]
05-October [01:03]
06-Forest Opera [03:29]
07-Ruin [04:33]
08-Kapolcs Alarm [04:55]
09-The Fields [04:51]
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35:22 min
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