Percuphonic 002
Percuphonic round 2 begins.....
Tracklist
1. Sounds Sensational - Love in the Open Air
2. William Sheller - Introit
3. Anita Bryant - My Mind's Playing Tricks On Me Again.
4. Bernard Fevre - Impressionism
5. Jean Yves Labat - Matrix 16
6. Michel Polnareff - La Mouche
7. Christian Boule- Orange Climax
8. Isabelle Adjani - D'un Taxiphone
9. Leonie- En Alabama
10. Basil Kirchin- Primitive London 1
11. The Vogues - Just What I've Been Looking For
12. M.Ashraf (featuring Nahid Akhtar) - Good News For You
13. Serge Gainsbourg - La Horse
14. Francoise Hardy - Bati Mon Nid
15. Xeno and Oaklander- Sentinelle
Sweeping orchestration and lounge style oohs and ahhs in a version of Paul McCartney's "Love in the Open Air", which was originally featured in the score for the film The Family Way.
Darker orchestration and a choir follows in "Introit" which was sampled on the space hip-hop opera concept album Deltron 3030.
Anita Bryant, popular in the 60s but later campaigned against gay rights- which irrevocably damaged her reputation - received a pie in the face from a protester (that's the above image) sings "My Minds Playing Tricks On Me Again". Apparently she was one of the first persons to be publicly "pied" on television. This song is a real favourite though.
Jumpy electronics next courtesy of Bernard Fevre- yes it sounds like a Ghostbox release! For the record released in 1975.
The longest track on the tape is by Christian Boule, he played guitar live and in the studio for Steve Hillage and was part of various groups in the underground music scene in Paris. This track is right up there ousting Hillage in his own space-trip guitar work! On the same album titled Photomusik the track "22 Broad Street" refers to a brief time he lived in Brighton, England."Orange Climax" begins with a loose melody of Hendrix's "Burning of the Midnight Lamp".
I like the repeated beat of the Isabelle Adjani track. This song is from the album Pull Marine (1983) written and produced by Serge Gainsbourg.
"En Alabama" is the arrangment of Jean-Claude Vannier and the British Basil Kirchin used his collection of ambient sounds to compose "Primitive London 1" which appears on the LP World Within Worlds.
"Just What I've been Looking For" and "Good News for You" are from the compilations Come to the Sunshine :Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA vaults and The Sound of Wonder respectively.
We end with synth duo Xeno and Oaklander with the title track of their second LP released in 2009.
