New LP out of nowhere...

Playlist

Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas

Prince Far I - Dubwise

Van Nostrand - Voyage in a White Building I

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Flight665

Eric Prydz - Pryda

Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

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Nothing done with these today...

The Daily Section No 38/432 was Section 134...

...from Presley to PIL...

Today a 1993 overview of Dory Previn’s 70-72 UA releases; a selection from Prince Far I’s 3 ‘78 releases on Virgin’s Front Line label; and Eric Prydz’s now 10 yr old “Pryda” which came with a 2CD retrospective of his banging work...

Also today, while getting round to listening to Burr Van Norstrand CD I chose for listening yesterday, a 6 second snippet of rhythm inspired me to end up creating a new work...

Here are the sleeve notes which I wrote in the dyas prior to its release - which is, at presetn, in the future but, as I write, in the past...

The Cloudland Blue Quartet album pencilled in to be released in June 2022 was the latest in the CBQ "classical" series, which was to be based on the music of Richard Wagner...

Some initial work on that project has already been released, on the collection "Twentytwentyone", also available on Bandcamp, but there was still much to do...

However, as I was preparing to re-start work on the "Wagner" project, I happened to be listening to a CD chosen at random from the collection, and heard just a couple of seconds of rhythm, buried in an otherwise outlandish piece written in 1969 by the American avant-garde composer, Burr Van Norstrand...

I had the idea to create something out of those few seconds and so, this new LP came about from that chance event...

I looped the found rhythm from a few seconds to a length of around six minutes and featured it twice in the proposed piece, in the middle and at the end...

Around those, I built up new soundscapes created from combining various versions of guitarscapes taken from my "Disquietmusik" series, treating them to amend, variously, pitch, tempos, keys and direction...

I then looked to top and tail the new piece with field recordings...

Looking for items that were around a minute or so long, I found two chance recordings of flight attendants...

The combination of the soundscapes and the flight attendants led to the title "The Crucifixion Flight Façade"...

On listening closely to the first flight attendant, she mentioned that the flight was No 665, from Seattle Tacoma Airport to Portland Oregon...

I looked on the map and imagined the route this short flight would take, noting the names of places over which it might fly, and those became the titles of the five parts of the piece...

Then, I decided to create a second piece, in which the flight attendants and rhythm tracks maintained their positions but the soundscapes were completely different - in much the same way as there are things on every single flight from a particular destination to another which are exactly the same, while other things on the flight (such as the crew, passengers and weather encountered) will change...

On completion of "The Margin Between Hope", five more place names were chosen and so each of the two "flights" moves southwards from Seattle to Portland...

The cover is a treated and upside down photograph of the view from the window of the room in which I work, taken a few days before the ideas above took shape...

Is that too much information as to how this record came about? Perhaps...

It will be out next Friday...

This evening, a tasty tea from Anne involving stir fry - her last cooking here for a while as she is off with Jane to that London tomorrow...

Luna continued to entertain...

Her parents have been home since Sunday night or yesterday morning but are not picking her up till Friday...

Aw, poor wee Luna...

Anyway, stir fry...

Yet another new cat in the neighbourhood...

Anne enjoyed her final evening with our guest - who never sits or lies or indeed pays much attention to me (because I don't feed her)...

The return of "Silent Witness" was nit picked but enjoyed nonetheless...

Off to bed metaphorically with Joni Mitchell tonight...

Highlight of the Day : New LP out of nowhere...