quoted 2 lines could you recommend some easy listening labels? i really prefer a funny
> could you recommend some easy listening labels? i really prefer a funny
> melodies, jazzy things and totally unusual in sound
You should try to track down "Zounds ! What Zounds !" by Dean Elliot & His Big Band.
It's an album from the early 60's featuring big band (with harpsichord) arrangements
of jazz standards accompanied by all these great rhythmic tape loops created out of
sounds from "a cement mixer, air compressors, punching bag, hand saw, thunderstorm,
raindrops, celery stalks (the crunchiest), a whole clock factory, bowling pins, and
many many more !". I think it's only available on a bootleg CD on Junkyard Records
coupled with Jack Fascinatos's "Music From A Surplus Store" which follows a similar
theme, but replaces the tape loops with "trowels, putty knives, crowbar, etc." as
musical instruments.
I'd also highly recommend Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds For Baby Volumes 1-3"
although they're not jazzy. It's electronic music from 62/63 intended to serve as
"aural toys" for infants. "The Happy Whistler" off "Volume 3: 6 to 12 months" sounds
like early Mouse On Mars and "Toy Typewriter" off the same volume is an 18 minute
extremely minimal and repetitive piece built out one percussive sound and could
pretty much pass for "microsound". A lot of the time the stuff sounds very close to
Kraftwerk actually.
Andrei
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