Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Perrey & Kingsley
The In Sound From Way Out!
(Vanguard, 1966)
"Atoms of pop music exploded into fresh patterns" by bold Moog-ists. Squonk!
Someone somewhere must have a form of synaesthesia where, via crosstalking neural pathways, music becomes flavoursome. Early Black Sabbath could taste soily and rusty; maybe Happy Hardcore would be like sherbet consumed via the nostrils. But what must The In Sound From Way Out! by Moog fanciers Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley sound/ taste like? Very nutty, with added plastic fruit, elastic bands, helium and bracing electric shocks every five seconds, we're saying. Europeans in the USA, they both had real music credentials - Perrey was a piano prodigy while Kingsley had conducted on Broadway and played with John Cage - but having joined forces they combined forward-looking intent with tuneful populism. Using labour-intensive tape-splicing musique concrète techniques, live drums and the Moog ur-synth, the results remain both ludicrous and brilliant: cf. opener The Unidentified Flying Object, which sends burps, bubbles and trills ricocheting around the interior of your skull, the literally honking Swan's Splashdown, or Cosmic Ballad's electro-dub for leisure-suited suburban swingers. The duo managed a second LP, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations - check it out for curiously-weighted versions of Spanish Flea and Winchester Cathedral - but split after, with Perrey going on to make the wizzo Moog Indigo LP and Kingsley writing the global hit Popcorn, among other endeavours. The sleeve to this, meanwhile, was famously borrowed by the Beastie Boys in 1996 for a compilation of their instrumentals, but they did ask the originators first.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 21/05/2009
Further Listening
Perrey & Kingsley – Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight On The Moog (Vanguard, 1967)
Wendy Carlos – Switched-On Bach (Columbia, 1968)
Hugo Montenegro – Moog Power (RCA, 1969)
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