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Jasper van 't Hof - Eye-Ball (1974)
A curious entry in Manfred Schoof's discography. Airy, synth-heavy, mid-tempo grooves and drifting, reverberating trumpet, at times receding into full, new age-y ambience. Meditation definitely veers very close to smooth jazz, especially on the pillow-y "Timecode". Elsewhere, the title track sounds like something that would have lurked on the back half of Moby's Play, and "Robot" pitches a soundtrack for a PG-13 cut of The Terminator. Strange that it was released as a Manfred Schoof solo album as it is quite clearly a collaborative effort with keyboardist Jasper van 't Hof, the only other musician credited.
Track listing:
1. Meditation
2. Clouds
3. Timecode
4. Robot
5. Silence
6. Zen
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ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, lots of thanks. By the way, where do you discover music? Out of curiosity.
Hey, glad you like it! Long answer: I have a ton of sources for finding new music. There are lots of music review sites that I look at -- Distorted Sound, Stereogum, Pitchfork, Angry Metal Guy, I Die You Die, The Line of Best Fit, Man of Much Metal, more -- but I pretty much just use them as a resource for finding out about new stuff that sounds up my alley, and don't really take into account review opinions. I also will spend hours in Discogs K-holes, where I'll start with an album that I like, then I'll check out the record label's catalogue, or I'll check out other records with the same producer, or other albums that the guitarist played on, and so on. (Pretty sure that's how I found this Schoof album, actually.) I'm also in a bunch of nerdy Reddit threads.
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