Allen and I worked for several years together in the second coming of Pere Ubu before we both decided to quit at around the same time. I carried on playing – and running this label; Allen became a commercial airline pilot and designed simulator stress tests for other airline pilots. Now retirement has brought him back to music and modular synthesis and – in this unusual recording – he arrives at a hybrid musical form that is more or less without precedent: discursive, digressive and disrupted by generic and emotional shifts; a music in which real-world sounds and real-world instruments occasionally argue with – or complement – the electronic current; there’s agon here – and narrative. Narrative. Narrative. Narrative. For a largely abstract and instrumental recording, that’s a real achievement. These pieces – and the interactions between them – cumulatively capture an historical moment – allusively and elusively, out of the corner of their eyes – and, I dare to say, that’s not just an achievement, it’s a great achievement. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE) PUBLICITY MATERIALS: ONLINE RESOURCES/LINKS PHOTOS |
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| 1. Sentimental Duet | |
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| 2. Waiting For The Bomb | |||
| 3. The Ladies In The Garden | |
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| 4. Bombay Tar | |
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| 5. If Only There Was More Time | |
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| 6. In The Ether | |
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| 7. Tin Wallah | |
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| 8. Day Shift | |
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| 9. The 537 to White Plains | |
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| 10. Save Our Ship | |
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| 11. Out Late | |
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| 12. Waiting | |
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| 13. Spirits | |
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| 14. Insomnia | |
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| 15. Bump in the Night | |
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| 16. Shoot This Dog | |
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| 17. Venus Calling | |
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| 18. Short Wave | |
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Jun 192018
