Showing posts with label Alan Lamb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Lamb. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Alan Lamb - Original Masters: Night Passage (1998)


Previously on OPIUM HUM:

Three unsettling, at times oppressively harsh experimental sound pieces. The first two pieces were recorded on what Lamb called the Faraway Wind Organ, which actually amounted to ten miles of abandoned telegraph wires that he purchased for dirt cheap, while the third was recorded on a specially built, smaller (but still very large) set of wires. Metal wires humming, scraping, and clanging against each other makes for a somewhat terrifying, if surprisingly musical listening experience. Thanks to the commenter who recommended this album to me like four and a half years ago.

Track listing:
1. Night Passage
2. Last Anzac
3. Meditation on Spring 8


Similar listening:

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Alan Lamb - Archival Recordings: Primal Image / Beauty (1995)


Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Sarah Hopkins & Alan Lamb - Sky Song (1985)

Two extended drone pieces from Scottish composer Alan Lamb. Recorded in '88 and '86, respectively. Apparently both pieces are made up of a series of shorter pieces, pieced together and smoothed over with transitions, but it certainly doesn't show -- they're completely seamless.

Track listing:
1. Primal Image
2. Beauty

A murder of dead crows

Also listen to:
Eleh -
Location Momentum (2010)
Steve Roach -
The Passing (2017)

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Sarah Hopkins & Alan Lamb - Sky Song (1985)


Haunting, etherial, collaborative pieces from composer/musicians Alan Lamb and Sarah Hopkins. Woozily euphoric drones and cello account for the core sound. Maybe it's the drugs talking, but I consider Sky Song as the aural equivalent to a human body melting into a cloud of mist that hangs over a clear sea.

Track listing:
1. The Winds of Heaven
2. Sky Song
3. Cello Chi
4. Mirages
5. Flight of the Wild Goose
6. New Journey

Ascension for protection

More like this:

Constance Demby - Sunborne (1980)
Daniel Kobialka - Cosmic Ecstasy (1981)