Label: Riskydisc – FUNC 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: UK Released: 1979 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Leftfield, New Wave, Art Rock
Conceptual abstract British private release from one-off group PGRS - unplayed deadstock.
Conceived by painter and generative music artist Paul Ramsey, 1979 LP Photographs Of Sound is a result of a two-day event in creating ‘Functional Background Music’. It’s a well-aged and agreeable suite of varied instrumentals that capture a complimentary scene, setting or function, such as Gymnastics, or the image of a Rockpool and the strain of sprinting. All this aside, musically the album flows. Shifting moods between dreaming atmospheric improvisation to quirky art-rock pieces with live drums and laid-back guitar skits. The canon of 70s / 80s private press LPs is certainly full of this sorta DIY library music - see the recent Italian Sandro Zane LP we had, although this is much better - although this isolated home-experimentation feels more in line with the likes of Terry Burrows, Berbel Nobodius and some of the Hamster Records scene. Great one! (Mint / New - unplayed deadstock, 1 per person pls!!)
Tracklist A1 Modern Drive 2:21 A2 Bordeaux 1:56 A3 Go 2:23 A4 Sonia 1:58 A5 Music For Slow Motion Gymnastics 3:35 A6 Only Notes 1:39 A7 Hovering Before Ascent 4:19 B1 Chords And Effect 3:52 B2 The Clearing 3:32 B3 Two Kids Tracing The Source Of A River 2:40 B4 Rockpool 2:12 B5 Skylake 1:49 B6 Unfinished Reggae 2:03 B7 There Should Have Been Words 3:38
