5051078942728

Echoic Enchantment

Martin Archer & Bo Meson

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Format: CD

Cat No: DISCUS52CD

Release Date:  19 May 2017

Label:  Discus Music

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5051078942728

Genres:  Electronic  Experimental  

  • Description

    "Visualised as a modern classical piece but sonically recorded as a rock album, "Echoic Enchantment" is a 56 minute piece composed by Martin Archer (Music) and Bo Meson (words), with both men contributing to the performance. Using strings, prepared piano, electronic treatments, percussion, double bass, organ and glockenspiel, the music has a vast and sprawling nature, the opening sections allowing the bass to build the tension until droning strings and percussion solidify the musical landscape allowing the words to dance between the notes. With some instrumentation based on loose structure and other improvised there is a delightful balance between flow and discord, the music having an vitality and tension that lifts it from Minimalism into more Avant Garde territory suggesting the kind of music early Tangerine Dream would have made had they been an orchestra. With the words sparsely scattered throughout the piece it is the music that pulls you in, engaging, sometimes challenging, always interesting and fans of Cage, Stravinsky, free jazz or the music of Henry Cow and Slapp Happy may find much to enjoy." - PTOLOMAIC TERRASCOPE

    Bo Meson - voice, electronic treatments

    Martin Archer - clarinet, organ & electronics

    Peter Fairclough - percussion

    Steve Dinsdale - percussion

    Johnny Hunter - percussion

    Walt Shaw - percussion

    Philip Thomas - prepared piano

    Simon H Fell - double bass

    Paul Schatzberger - violin

    Aby Vulliamy - viola

    Angela Rosenfeld - cello

    Wolfgang Seel - voice

    Julie Archer - voice

    Liz Searle - voice

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Echoic Enchantment - Part 1
      • 2. Echoic Enchantment - Part 2
      • 3. Echoic Enchantment - Part 3
      • 4. Echoic Enchantment - Part 4
      • 5. Echoic Enchantment - Part 5
      • 6. Echoic Enchantment - Part 6
      • 7. Echoic Enchantment - Part 7
      • 8. Echoic Enchantment - Part 8
      • 9. Echoic Enchantment - Part 9
      • 10. Echoic Enchantment - Part 10