Artist : John Hill
Title : 6 Moons Of Jupiter
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2008
Date : 09/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Finders Keepers Records FKR018LP
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 24:59 min
Size : 36,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.europa 05:59
02.amalthea 02:50
03.clear in the black 00:14
04.ganymede 04:20
05.green gold 00:13
06.io 03:45
07.the emptiness cries 00:14
08.callisto 04:15
09.still in our dreaming 00:13
10.elara 02:56
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24:59 min
This is one of those albums that encapsulates the
very raison d'etre of a reissue label like Finders Keepers,
or Trunk for that matter.
John Hill's Six Moons Of Jupiter is a dizzying cocktail of
avant-garde jazz, cosmic psychedelia and electronic
experimentation, intermittently augmented by the poetry
of Susan Christie who recites text over parts of certain
tracks.
There are drum-fuelled beat tracks like 'Io' or the David
Axelod-like 'Amalthea', and then there's some woozy,
electroacoustic soundscaping on the hazy, effects-laden
'Ganymede', all of which are ideal fodder for library hounds,
but 'Callisto' and 'Elara' mark the real creative peaks here,
eschewing the kind of exotica-appeal that tends to taint
reissues with a hint of kitsch.
The latter of these compositions draws a certain amount
of influence from Messaien's Turangalila Symphonie in its
ambitious, often erratic harmonies and its mingling of
conventional and electronic instrumentation. The album
is capped off with an alternate, instrumental rendition of
'Europa', which it has to be said, benefits from the absence
of Christie's reading - which itself is isolated as a final piece
on the album, 'I Am The Storm Of Dawn'.
This amazing concept album will undoubtedly appeal
greatly to anyone who fell under the spell of Jean-Claude
Vannier's L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches and generally
to followers of weird and wondeful musics from the
archicives.
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