Artist : Cults Persussions Ensemble
Title : Selftitled (1979)
Genre : Easy Listening
Year : 2012
Date : 03/2013
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Trunk Records
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 40:42 min
Size : 70,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.autun carillon 03:52
02.baia 03:02
03.my love she's but a lassie yet 02:53
04.cirlces 03:05
05.percussion suite (3rd movement) 03:42
06.the little dancer 02:57
07.two jubilee pieces 03:40
08.erlangen polka 03:01
09.dream angus 03:27
10.surrey with the fringe on top 02:50
11.irish washerwoman 02:53
12.polymers 03:12
13.out 02:08
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40:42 min
The Cults Percussion Ensemble must have
one of the best group names of all time.
To many it will immediately come across
as something sinister, a touch spooky
and possibly a bit dramatic too. They
are certainly two of those but the use
of the word ôCultsö here is easily
misinterpreted. Cults, in this case, is
the suburb of Aberdeen. IÆm going there
next week in fact, with a strange
costume.
This is the only album by the group.
Assembled by percussion teacher Ron
Forbes in 1976, the average age of the
students was just 14. They came from a
few of the schools in the area,
including the Cults Academy, Ellon
Academy, Aboyne Academy, Inverurie
Academy and Powis.
My copy of the album came from
Spitalfields market in London. I loved
the music the second it started, because
it reminded me of Carl Orff and peculiar
library. So I started to investigate it
further, and eventually, thanks to the
highly tuned world of percussion, was
given the address of Ron Forbes. I got
in touch with him and now we have this,
a formal release of something quite
lovely that was only previously
available very briefly in 1979 at
concerts when the young girls performed.
Over the years the original privately
pressed album has achieved a little
notoriety, not just because of the very
beautiful music, but also because of the
notable presence of one future star, but
more of that later on.
In that last paragraph I say ôlittle
notorietyö, but when I investigated the
album, there was scant information about
anywhere. Nothing on line, and very few
people had even heard of it. It seemed
very much below the musical radar of
just about everyone. However three
people I knew of had come across it: one
was a record dealer from France and I
realized that the LP had been taken to
France by the ensemble when they played
there. The other two û 1) Mr Young from
the very fine Sound Awareness blog and
2) the well respected music geek Andrew
Symington, are both from Scotland. Yes,
of course they are. So I got Andrew to
write a few words, which freaked him out
a bit, but then he got on with it. He
even went and found some pictures. I
also asked Ron Forbes if he had any
recollections and he wrote a short piece
for the sleevenotes too.
The original 1970s artwork for the album
is all brown and beige, and I thought
for something so musically beautiful a
little more colour was in order. Whether
this was a good idea or not is down to
personal preferences but I quite like
the new sleeve. And IÆll always love the
music no matter whatÆs on the front.
Thanks for listening.
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