Label: Creel Pone – 289 Format: CD, unofficial release Country: US Released: 2023 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Musique Concrète, New Age
May 2023; Gorgeous reproduction of this hensteeth 1983 "Private" LP (initially issued by "Fritz Maude Enterprises") interlocking a particularly desirable vein of Crystal-gaze with more outré, Avant-Garde tendencies bordering on Musique Concrète & Electronic Minimalism.
Landing amidst a pastoral field of bongos & a full spectral range of droning synths & FM flicker, we're led into "Symphony No.1 For Piano And Technology"; a long stretch of the sort of modal, droning, effects-laden stage-piano drip familiar from such blessed affairs as Jordan De La Sierra's vaunted 1978 Unity-label affair "Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose" (with which Church's playing shares more than a passing resemblance).
Far from the tonal naivety usually associated with the common New Age Private, tracks like the clangorous dread of "Moving Ice" have much more going on compositionally, reminding a bit of Wilburn Burchette's Electronic work, and the bubbling, churning synths that fill every crack & crevice throughout this inspired affair share an affinity with the work of JD Emmanuel, Frank Becker, and other astrally-aligned travelers.
(Mint / New)
Tracklist 1 Paul Church Jr. / Graydon Murrell– Just Passing Through 2 Paul Church Jr.– Symphony No.1 For Piano And Technology 1st Movement 3 Paul Church Jr.– Moving Ice 4 Paul Church Jr.– Love Without Motion Among Blue Whales 5 Paul Church Jr. / Graydon Murrell– Fish Music 8 6 Paul Church Jr.– Symphony No.1 For Piano And Technology 2nd Movement 7 Paul Church Jr.– Fish Music 9
