Thanks for the info. I had heard Like a Duck to Water in the library years ago
and couldn't remember the name of the Album. It is a great album. A point of
interest; while listening to it for the first time I thought I had heard it
before but differently, kind of muddled, like in a dream - and then I realized
that one of the tracks off it (not sure which one any more) was used
extensively at the end of one of DJ Shadow's mixes. Stem/Long Stem off
Introducing DJ Shadow.
If any one has a spare copy of either of their LP's they want to trade or sell,
please send me an e-mail and I'll send you my want list. My list is posted at
Whitezone w/ the heading ">>>Danger<<< Tradelists >>>Danger<<<".
Thanks,
Christophe
Bob Bannister wrote:
quoted 38 lines Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. was founded in the early 70s by
> Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. was founded in the early 70s by
> David Borden at Cornell University.
>
> The group started as a trio with Steve Drews and Linda Fisher and released
> two LPs (s/t, 73 and _Like a Duck to Water_ '76) on their own Earthquack
> label. Cuneiform has recently reissued the first LP with extra unreleased
> stuff from the time on a CD titled _1970-73_.
>
> Although they were nominally academic musicians, the group was something of
> a reaction against the prevailing academic musical style - it's very simple
> and repetitive analog synth stuff, very melodic, not a lot of noise.
>
> >From the first LP the track "Ceres Motion" is sort of a mixture of mid-70s
> Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Philip Glass - very energetic,
> sequencer-driven stuff. The track "Train" is intriguing because of its
> minimalism - it's got three basic sounds that recur for 6 1/2 minutes to
> create a sparse landscape - probably could be confused for some contemporary
> German stuff in a blindfold test.
>
> Borden has continued to compose under his own name - he's got a big piece
> called _The Continuing Story of Counterpoint_ that seems to always be
> growing - it's up to 12 parts, available over 3 CDs. I haven't heard the CDs
> but saw part of it performed live once and found it a bit dull compared to
> the Mother Mallard stuff. Much like Philip Glass (IMHO), his efforts to
> expand on his original ideas mostly sound watered down.
>
> The Mother Mallard records remain among my all-time favorites - the music
> could in some ways be regarded as proto-IDM except, unlike the Krautrock
> music where there's a direct link to Detroit and beyond, Mother Mallard was
> kind of working in a bit of a void - they weren't part of a movement,
> although it's always intriguing to hear people arrive at the same aesthetic
> ends from a totally different direction.
>
> Bob
>
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