quoted 5 lines if i enjoy music like track 1 (dark, illbient/ambient>if i enjoy music like track 1 (dark, illbient/ambient
>style) off of cristoph de babalon's 'if you're into
>it, i'm out if it,' does anyone have any other
>recommendations in a similar vein/sound/feel?
>or just classic/good illbient releases in general?
you could also get ready for the upcoming Spaceheads/Max Eastley album
as it is an amazing ambient trip... It will be released in March I
think... philippe
SPACEHADS AND MAX EASTLEY. THE TIME OF THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT.
The Spaceheads and Max Eastley have sculpted a complete work from a
clash of ancient and future technologies. Music as, crafted soundscapes,
sculptured washes of sound, deep textures, broad melodic invention,
spontaneous meetings.
The Spaceheads have been hurtling down a unique path of their own for
many years now. This duo mix trumpet and electronics with drums and
percussion. Plaintive trumpet calls are looped across pulsing beats that
propel us into sheets of metal crashing and vibrating through tiny pick
ups cranked to the full and then spun into electronic webs.
Max Eastley, sound sculptor, artist, musician, is playing his own
invention The Arc - a mono chord of wood and wire. He scrapes, bends and
flexes the sound, twisting it into an orbit of amplified experiences.
Electricity and raw noise captured and controlled, then flying out of
control, bumping up against, colliding with fellow travellers.
Ancient Astronauts.
Spaceheads met Max Eastley at a multi media extravaganza in Manchester.
A man set fire to tables, fireworks went off, the scene was set........
Max cast his spell over the audience with vibrating blocks of sound from
his instrument of alchemy The Arc. The spaceheads followed him and
where they overlapped a new, intoxicating sound emerged. The audience
were hynotised. It was a special moment that the Spaceheads and Max
decided to try and re-create in a recording studio.
They Failed.
They didn't recreate that moment. They didn't even try. From the first
sound a different and special magic was evoked, captured in one
afternoon on this recording. Haunting trumpet melodies over soft drones
and textures sets the mood.
This slowly mutates to a world of high opera and tipsy beats that then
cascades with a metallic pounding.
It is Scary.
The music takes on cinematic proportions as the terrain unfolds.
Interstellar landscapes are revealed. This is improvisation as a battle
between the done and the possible. Whatever next?
The Spaceheads are
Andy Diagram - Trumpet and voice through harmoniser and echo loops
Richard Harrison - Drums and percussion and sheets of metal through
electronics.
The spaceheads have been touring regularly across the globe for the last
five years. They have recorded five albums.
Max Eastley plays The Arc. A nine foot long mono chord. One string
stretched over wood and played with a bow or glass rods. The pitch is
changed by flexing the wood. The string can also be shortened with
clips. It is then fed into electronic effects.
Max Eastley began in the late sixties to investigate the relationship of
chance to music and visual art. Using kinetic sound devices or the
environmental forces of wind, streams and sea. These automata possessed
implications that were sculptural, architectural, theatrical and
musical.
He continues to work in all these branches of creative and philosophical
exploration.
Max has recently exhibited work at, the Big Chill festival UK, Sonic
Boom at the South Bank London,The ICC Centre Tokyo, and The Belfast
festival amongst many others.
Max has made many recordings with The Arc, among them,"day for night"
with Peter Cusack (paradigm), 'buried dreams" with David Toop, and
"isolationism" a compilation on Virgin records.