ARTIST...: Basil Kirchin
TITLE....: Basil Kirchin Is My Friend (A Trunk Records Sampler)
YEAR.....: 2017
LABEL....: Trunk Records
CAT.NO...: JBH067
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 39:52
SIZE.....: 91,57 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2017/10/12
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com
TRACKLIST
01) (00:33) Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt 1
02) (01:53) Assignment K 3
03) (01:27) Bells
04) (02:08) Primitive London 2
05) (00:12) Shuttered Room Effects Tape
06) (00:42) Birds 2
07) (01:07) Shuttered Room 5
08) (03:23) Charcoal Sketch 2
09) (00:46) Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt 2
10) (07:59) Quantum Part 1 (Opening Section)
11) (00:49) Rank Xerox 1
12) (00:27) Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt 3
13) (02:32) The Dice is Cast
14) (02:15) The Mutations 5
15) (01:09) Birds and Bangs
16) (01:13) Silicon Chip
17) (01:13) Schurmatt Austistic Children Tape
18) (10:04) E+Me
An awe-inspiring sampler of the late, great musical polymathÆs music. From pop punk
pop to field recordings, jazz, horror film music, ambient sounds, experimental ideas
and all points in between. Many tracks have not been released before.
"Basil Kirchin was a unique talent. A man brought up as a drummer in the post war big
band era, he soon shunned the sounds of London ballrooms for world travel, marijuana
and spiritual enlightenment. On his return to London in the mid 1960s he started work
on experimental ôsound picture musicö, a direction that led him into horror film
music, library music and eventually to field recordings.
He then developed the idea of slowing down the sounds of bird, insects, animals,
autistic children û anything he recorded in fact û to reveal the hidden particles of
sound that made them up. Mixing this with free jazz improvisation in 1969 he
developed a new, peculiar sound that we now know as ôambientö. Here, in this unique
Trunk RecordÆs sampler, we offer a fascinating musical glimpse into his world,
bringing together work from three decades, PLUS parts of a long conversation between
Jonny Trunk and Basil Kirchin recorded a few months before he died.
There is unreleased film music, field recordings including autistic children from
Schurmatt, music for advertising, the opening of ôQuantumö, brilliant mixes of jazz
and birds (ôCharcoal Sketchesö), the newly discovered digital post punk classic
ôSilicon Chipö plus brilliant and moving homages to his life with Esther, his wife.
Together it makes extraordinary listening."
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