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Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones (1998) 
Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones (CD 1998)
Title: Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones
Record Label: Ellipsis Arts
Release Year: 1998
EAN: 0052296361020
Genre: General
Product ID: EPID3969957
Description: Contains a 96-page booklet by Bart Hopkin with forward by Robert Moog. Following 1996's GRAVIKORDS, WHIRLIES & PYROPHONES, this is the second installment in Experimental Music Journal editor Bart Hopkin's ongoing project of compiling rec...
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Track Listing
1. Back To The East - ZGA
2. Heavenly Flower (excerpt) - Colin Offord
3. Babbachichuija - Tom Waits
4. Jhala III - Bill Colvig
5. Pentatonic - Arthea
6. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball - Aphex Twin
7. MEDLEY: La Dance Des Fourmis (excerpt)/Megalithe
8. MEDLEY: Tunnel Of Love/Dear 3
9. Cosmogenesis (excerpt) - Ela Lamblin
10. Sonata XIV - John Cage
11. Waterphonics - Stomp
12. Elegy For The Missing - Alan Tower
13. Motivational Music For Pedestrians - Bradford Reed
14. Change Of Direction (excerpt) - Ellen Fullman
15. Arrumacao - Uakti
16. Grand Gallope, The - Leonard Solomon

Details
Number of CDs:1
Recording Type:Studio
Distributor:Harmonia Mundi (UK)
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Contains a 96-page booklet by Bart Hopkin with forward by Robert Moog.
Following 1996's GRAVIKORDS, WHIRLIES & PYROPHONES, this is the second installment in Experimental Music Journal editor Bart Hopkin's ongoing project of compiling recorded examples of homemade instruments for the lay listener. Compared with its predecessor, ORBITONES succeeds even more as an CD-length musical experience than as a novel document of bizarre instruments and their odd though ear-friendly sounds. There are contributions here from Tom Waits (recorded especially for this collection), California composer Lou Harrison, electronica star Aphex Twin, off-Broadway sensation Stomp and innovative Brazilian ensemble Uakti, in addition to a host of previously unfamiliar names.
They all make strange and beautiful music as well as making instruments on which to play it. But perhaps the most evocative selection comes courtesy of the late American composer John Cage, who just about invented New Music and its experimental methods. Included is a spacey excerpt from Cage's seminal "Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano," recorded by the redoubtable Maro Ajemian in 1951 for Dial (available now on CRI) and still the best version extant of this masterpiece.

Editorial Reviews
4 (out of 5) - ...the music created by these unlikely and sometimes unwiedldy mechanisms is uniformly outstanding, regardless of its means of creation...
Alternative Press (06/01/1999)

...The whole package is well researched and presented, with many intriguing photos and performances...
The Wire (12/01/1998)


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