Echoes

I'm loving the music in this thread. Would love to
hear more pls Cheechako

Thank you. And not just for you, but I was planning on one last one before I crash. I've been on a Kate kick tonight with a bunch in the 80s and Listening To threads.

Kate built her own studio at home in 1983 and began work on Hounds of Love, which was released in 1985. Hounds of Love was actually side one of the album, and had five tracks including the title track and two notable singles: Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting.

Side two was The Ninth Wave, and it was a 7 track concept album. Kate described this album as being "About a person who is alone in the water for the night. It's about their past, present and future coming to keep them awake, to stop them drowning, to stop them going to sleep until the morning comes."

The Ninth Wave (complete):
[video=youtube;qQlPdUJBUqA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQlPdUJBUqA[/video]

canndo said:

Anyone who is interested in dark ambient, or it's brethren might look into Meg Bowles - one of her albums is stunning, if you like that sort of thing.

From the Dark Earth - it is synthetic except for a very organic trumpet player - It gets me high every time I listen. I brought the album to work one day and caught half of my work mates spaced out in front of their monitors.

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Thank you for that. Her work has been on both Hearts of Space and Echoes. She was never anyone I especially noticed or singled out, though. I don't buy as many CDs lately - I just get digital. Seems like she's one for those long pieces that are slow (if ever) to make it to digital - at least on Amazon. I have a always full wish-list of those CDs.

Some really nice stuff, though.

From The Dark Earth:
[video=youtube;UiBg1WlWKFs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBg1WlWKFs[/video]

And more Meg Bowles from her 1996 album
[video=youtube;rNUNkJ5Dn08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUNkJ5Dn08[/video]

cheechako said:

Thank you for that. Her work has been on both Hearts of Space and Echoes. She was never anyone I especially noticed or singled out, though. I don't buy as many CDs lately - I just get digital. Seems like she's one for those long pieces that are slow (if ever) to make it to digital - at least on Amazon. I have a always full wish-list of those CDs.

Some really nice stuff, though.

From The Dark Earth:
[video=youtube;UiBg1WlWKFs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBg1WlWKFs[/video]

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I discovered sythetic music with Tonto's expanding head band and progressed through there to Froeze, Schultz, Hammer, Hillage, Vangellis and Tangerine Dream and the like. Then I found early Isham. Now atmospheric isn't enough, it has to have a depth, a theme.

David Helpling, Jon Jenkins, Bowles, Story, Isham are mainstays. Of course fully organic stuff is fine but the point for me is music that takes me to a place - a place that has no boundaries that shows me emotions of every sort without having to describe . . with words.


If you do not know David Helpling's work you really should. And a later discovery is Margot Reisinger - planetary healing - something quite different than she has done with existence previously.

The recent Talking Heads posts got me thinking more of this guy, who was on TV last night - I'll get to that in a couple of posts:

[video=youtube;6lww3LftQaw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lww3LftQaw[/video]

More Byrne and Eno:
[video=youtube;_Jv_RCxjhdk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jv_RCxjhdk[/video]

Is there a version of this that isn't good?
[video=youtube;BG2NL72DhqA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG2NL72DhqA[/video]

And, as promised, the most recent performance to date:
[video=youtube;NFsqP7ENcMQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFsqP7ENcMQ[/video]

Simon Jeffes composed the score for the 1988 ballet, Still Life at the Penguin Cafe
[video=youtube;Jh0TPvus7r4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0TPvus7r4[/video]

Some of Penguin Cafe's works have been used in films. Telephone & Rubber Band was in Talk Radio and Malcom, and also in some commercials.

[video=youtube;RdZGhVv-h2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZGhVv-h2w[/video]

Perpetuum Mobile was also used for many films, and was the main theme for the Canadian marijuana documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High.

[video=youtube;FvbCV6E0Wro]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvbCV6E0Wro[/video]

Music for a Found Harmonium was in at least three films, including the end of Napoleon Dynamite. This is from the same 1989 BBC broadcast as above.

[video=youtube;yJg1NNyke2E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E[/video]

Ivo Watts-Russell founded 4AD records and also formed the "super group" This Mortal Coil. That band was Watts-Russell, John Fryer, and various other musicians mostly from 4AD that produced three albums between 1984 and 1991.


[video=youtube;P8ADD-UUAMs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ADD-UUAMs[/video]

Watts-Russell formed The Hope Blister - somewhat of a successor to This Mortal Coil, but without the collaboration of other 4AD artists. They only produced two albums in 1998 and 99 before Watts-Russell retired. I'm listening to Sideways - a collection of remixed instrumental tracks released in 2006. That is not on YT as far as I can tell. Here's a Eno cover from the first album: ...Smile's OK

[video=youtube;FpC4WSFSa8w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpC4WSFSa8w[/video]

The Hope Blister also covers this song on ...Smile's OK. To be honest, I cannot say that I'm a big fan of Gus Gus. It is not that I have anything against Icelandic bands, but a lot of their music just isn't my style. They are eclectic, though, and some of it is:

[video=youtube;Axb1mTUIkG4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axb1mTUIkG4[/video]

I'm slowly self teaching myself the piano. (Alfred's) Suzanne Ciani is one of the pianists that inspires me. She is also a composer and has done a wide range of work including soundtracks. I learned the entire left-hand of Ondine - it is simple and fit on the one free sample page, and I fooled with that before I got my teaching books. The piano version of this work is not on YT, so here's the full version:

[video=youtube;lVbhZ7C0PHU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVbhZ7C0PHU[/video]

Liz Story is another of my favorites. I've tracked down much of her out of print music. The audio in this isn't the best, but this is Liz Story live on VH1. The hair really dates this, but the music is still awesome.

[video=youtube;ikLqfiOKX5Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLqfiOKX5Q[/video]

Now back to Suzanne Ciani. As I said, she is a pianist and a composer. Here she is performing live.

[video=youtube;9sv5vXIx6ig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sv5vXIx6ig[/video]

And lastly, to finish off this page with another composer and sometimes pianist, Philip Glass. The music starts - I'm not going to say where. This thread is to introduce the music, and not just head right to the video (music). So give Philip a listen first.

[video=youtube;JthxVHkRT9Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JthxVHkRT9Y[/video]