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electro-acoustic-composition
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| | | creel pone (usa) #cp 092 cd michael sahl “tropes on the salve regina” compact disc-recordable - tropes on the salve regina (1) (24:56)
- tropes on the salve regina (2) (16:24)
| ... i’ve heard rumo(u)r of the creel pone “shortlist” ; i.e. the member-curated selection of “candidates” for the creel pone treatment, each title nominated then judged according to strict set of attributes found runnning throughout the series (intangible qualities, mind you, such as “zonked” - “private-universe / bedroom” - “against-grain” - “aleatoric” - etc ...)
up high on said list all along has been this gem ; michael sahl’s first release, “tropes on the salve regina” ... this one fits in so perfectly with the running canon of creel pone that it’s almost hard to believe that this was actually released in the late 60s on lyrichord ; a label known primarily for their production-value heavy ethnographic survey lps ...
the piece starts out straight enough with a swash of detuned / atonal “bedroom” free-improv electric guitar (overdubbed and multiplied tenfold to yield a thick swarm of discordant plucking) before confoundingly detouring into an almost robbie-basho-lineage bit of operatic recitation ... the guitars pick up again when, suddenly and without warning, a hailstorm of tape manipulations render the individual guitar notes into a free-time grid of attacks & rhythmic gating, punctuated with short stabs of concrète sound and heavily processed / time-altered variants on the recitation ... for a good 20 minutes the first half of the piece picks up speed & trails off, ending with a long section of o/t guitar lines ...
if that wasn’t already enough, the second half starts straight out of the gate with a flurry of tape-speed mangled guitar lines dotting across the stereo spectrum ... after a long section of muted field recordings, the guitar(s) come back in again, now bathed in tape-echo and spring reverb, quickly juxtaposed against wet and dry takes before sailing out in a sea of eastern-leaning psych-improv (imagine a musique concrète piece comprised solely of jorma kaukonen & sandy bull’s mid/late 60s sound-checks & you’re close) ...
definitely one for the out-guitar / 60s home-studio tape-music enthusiast ... |
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this creel pone edition includes:
1 x crystal-clear resealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a black / gold foil stamp affixed to the exterior
1 x single-sided six-color inkjet-printed hand-cut glossy photo-paper booklet
1 x double-sided one-color laser-printed hand-cut salmon-colored paper insert
1 x six-color inkjet-printed compact disc recordable in a high-density round-bottom cd sleeve
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lyrichord stereo llst 7210
electronic music
michael sahl
tropes on the
salve regina
gregorian chant
electric guitar
magnecord pt-6a
blues in e
musicology courses
east 3rd street
raga bhairavi
hermannus contractus, 1150
the juggler juggled and the
virgin mary smiled
isis
lafayette echo-verb
danelectro 6-string bass
ishtar
mariolatry
the book of the dead
orpheus
spencer memorial church
marcus aurelius
blessed fruit of they womb, jesus
liturgical event
morse code keys
suzuki
turn upon us thy merciful eyes
white note music
dore’s dante
overdubbing with equalizations
brookline, mass., sept. 2, 1934
hamlet and oedipus
november 26, 1967
hand-winding and gating
greenwich avenue
san francisco d’assisi
kwan yin
jezebel
deborah
mae west
long loops at different speeds
audio baton
aphrodite
the white goddess
santa catalina tomas
out of tune
lovelock, nevada
usc
o sweet virgin mary
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cover photo by irene harris
lyrichord discs inc.,
141 perry street
new york, ny 14, n. y.
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