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- From: charly@hal.COM (Charly Rhoades)
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- Subject: Electronic Country Space Music (Was Re: 'Newage' music)
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:13:10 GMT
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- In article <C04y4p.45y@ra.nrl.navy.mil> buck@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan) writes:
- >
- >P.S. Does any one know of any electronic instrumental country space rock
- >recordings (you know with synthesizer(s), guitars [acoustic and/or electronic
- >and/or bass and/or steel], fiddle(s), with a danceable beat). Please start
- >a new thread for a response to this request.
-
- (Joke mode was off, wasn't it...?)
-
- Have you ever listened to _APOLLO:_Aatmospheres_&_Soundtracks_, by Brian
- Eno with Roger Eno & Daniel Lanios??
-
- I am (and I suspect always have been) a major fan of Brain Eno's work and
- the ethic he embodies, but when I first listened to this recording after
- it was first released, a group of songs near the end of the recording
- seemed, well, out of place -- even out of character (which is something
- for such a malleable chap as Eno).
-
- Well, these songs featured twangy, bouncy guitar. The trademark sweeps of
- sound still washed along the background, swelling to the fore at the oh-so-Eno
- glacial pace, then receded again. But there was this ... well, western
- guitar-sound. I wasn't sure what to make of it.
-
- I have since some to appreciate these songs quite a lot over the years.
- I think the guitar is Lanois' influence (and is very likely a pedal steel
- in places). I have yet to see the film the music was written for, but after
- some thought, I could understand, even appreciate, the wry humor of writing
- C&W space music for a documentary on these audacious American pioneers to
- the moon. (The former-astronaut character from _Northern_Exposure_ and the
- great characterizations in Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" I think contribute to
- this feeling of mine, too, and confirm it's "rightness.")
-
- I think you should give these songs a listen if you are truly searching for
- the qualities you describe above. (Well, I don't know about the "danceable"
- part...) The songs are:
-
- - "Silver Morning" (check this one out first!)
- - "Deep Blue Day" (still gives me tingles to this day!)
- - "Weightless" (Nashville guitar-feel. Not so spacey, just lethargic)
-
-
- Also, a few songs from Michael Brook's _Cobalt_Blue_ might fit the bill, too.
- I'll try to forward some specifics...
-
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