Label: Séance Centre – 11SC Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Canada Released: 23 Nov 2018 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Ambient, Experimental, Avantgarde, Post-Punk, Industrial, Synth-pop
Varied industria / ambient and previously cassette-only pieces documenting the exit transition form Industrial music by Snatch Tapes' Philip Sanderson.. (Mint / New)
By 1981, after four years of DIY electronics, it was time for a change. For Philip Sanderson that change came in the form of film. At first, requests came from friends for soundtrack work, and by the end of the decade he was making short experimental 8mm films himself. On One Of These Bends is a collection of unreleased songs, soundtrack work and obscure cassette-only pieces from the 80’s which reflect Philip’s shift in focus. It was a departure from the industrial music he had been making with his group Storm Bugs, having more in common with Nino Rota and Henry Mancini, albeit as seen through a DIY lens, and with a reel-to-reel orchestra comprised of an EMS VCS3, vibraphone, DX7, Roland SH-101, Roland TR-606, tape delay, acoustic guitar, fretless bass and Yamaha FB-01. On two numbers, Philip jokingly asked an American chanteuse to “sing it like a cross between Streisand and The Shangri-Las”, and to his surprise she did, the results sounding like a loungey AC Marias, or a lost early Crépuscule recording by Anna Domino. Counterpointing this are tracks such as E For Echo made with just an acoustic guitar, and the very first piece Bright Waves which combines the choral vocal talents of Nancy Slessenger with a Revox tape delay system, originally released on his own label Snatch Tapes, under the... more
Tracklist A1 Bright Waves A2 Tale Chase A3 E For Echo A4 Viewfinder A5 Everything He Is Not A6 On One Of These Bends B1 This Is Not A Game B2 Mixing Drinks & Aeroplanes B3 Scene Of The Crash B4 Echo Complex B5 Watertight B6 Maps B7 Looking Back
