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- From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
- Subject: Re: Carl Stone
- Message-ID: <1985@heurikon.heurikon.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:49:01 GMT
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- Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
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- In article <BzM5s5.4yv@emu.com> rickk@emu.com (Rick Kleffel) writes:
- >Carl Stone's "Mom's", recently reviewed by Greg Taylor as one of his ten
- >best in r.m.misc is very likely deserving of that honor. It's certainly one
- >for the ambient/industrial fans in this group.
-
- >When I read all about sampling this fragment and that sound in both reviews,
- >I expected something less musical, more concrete -- a pleasing assembly of
- >noises, like The Halfer Trio's Intooutof, or the Zoviet France CD I briefly
- >owned but returned. There are elements of that in Carl Stone, particularly
- >the song contructed from repeated, shifting samples of a Schubert Lieder
- >sung by a Japanese popsinger. But more often than not on this record, Stone
- >manipulates his samples into warm, sliding analog synth-like tones that melt
- >together in the time honored tradition of Schulze and Tangerine Dream. THese
- >are overlaid with crunching, churning mechanical sounds that function as rhythm
- >on one cut and more background on others.
-
- Thanks for the polite mention of my name here. I'd like to mention that
- my intention in the "15 of the top ten" listings over in r.m.m. was to
- include some work which might be of interest here. I just didn't get
- around to re-posting the articles here, since only a couple of my non-top
- ten would be acceptable to "industrial" exclusivists (the Dome reissues
- and SPK's Zamia Lehmanni) and a bunch would not (Tahitian choirs and
- Derek Bailey's acoustic guitar scratchfests). Having said that, those of
- you who are interested in the ambient industrial stuff really *should*
- check out Carl's most recent recording on New Albion. The only caveat
- that I might have for you is that you'll find the CD offensive for certain
- if your aesthetic in any way would exclude the beautiful or sensuous; for
- all intents and purposes, what Carl's up to would produce some truly
- bitchin' orthodox r.m.i. bang and screechfests if only he'd alter the
- *input* to his compositional systems. But that's not what he's after - so
- be warned. This is lovely stuff to listen to.
-
- Incidentally - I've since gotten a couple of e-mail questions about the
- Stone disc. The singer being sampled on "Shing Kee" is Akiko Yano, who
- you may know as Ryuichi Sakamoto's wife (thought question: if we like
- this album or SPK's "Zamia Lehmanni", then is R. Sakamoto's "Esperanto"
- also an ambient industrial disc?). The Schubert lieder is "Der Lindenboom",
- and it appears originally on Yano's album "Brooch". The first uses
- some vocal samples from the pygmies of the Ituri rain forest and (guess).
-
-
- --
- The law moves quickly in the rain/and chokes the world with memorials./The
- courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
- the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
- it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
-