Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Global Communication
76:14
(Dedicated, 1994)
West Country Ambient droogs break out the bean bags, say sit down and party.
Curious to think that Mark Pritchard, who with Tom Middleton made up Global Communication, was also behind Shaft’s 1993 rave novelty Roobarb & Custard. Or maybe there’s poetic justice in the association; after all, the spine-drained raver on a comedown needed sounds to take the edge off the horrorscape, and when The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds seemed a bit too full on, there was always 76:14. Even 14 years on, the ten tracks – titled, like the album, for how long they go on for – provide a soothing balm. Somewhere between a futurist film score, the distant booming of a spacecraft’s engines or an abstract jazz combo playing on Lando’s cloud city in The Empire Strikes Back, here were rich and beauteous swathes of almost beat-less ambient noise reminiscent of Eno and Tangerine Dream, punctuated by an international array of sampled voices and ticking clocks, all suggestive of planetary harmony and shared values (you could get away with that kind of thing then). Rumour has it the founders of the Big Chill were inspired to start throwing their parties because of this album, but don’t let that put you off.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 26/05/2008
Further Listening
Global Communication – Remotion (Dedicated, 1996)
Ulrich Schnauss – A Strangely Isolated Place (City Centre Offices, 2003)
Hans Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story – Inlandish (Groenland, 2008)
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