This little promo item was actually sold to me back in the late 90s or so by my then music "pusher".
With very little to go on as it were, and without the knowledge or musical database now available on the interweb (the late 90s were still generally primitive for online researches, especially for less-than-well-known musical outputs), I always thought this 78 minute album to be a compilation featuring sniplets and morcels donated by all the artists involved, and then mixed into one mamoth of a monster track as a whole new piece. It wasn't until I discovered info about this release online that I realized that this speciality disc was designed as a promo for the label Ash International, featuring mostly pre-released material but re-edited and re-designed as one big piece. In any case or whichever you want to cut the pie into (??!?!?) this is still quite an intriguing feat to saw the least. The piece works as one endless flow into different areas of the dark grey spectrum, at times very field recording and almost musique concrete, at others almost a soothing drone atmosphere, and featuring many elements such as Scanner's..., well Scanner's scanner (!), other diembodied voices, found sound, very light rhythmic elements, and so forth. Due to it's considerable length and lack of track indexing, it is very hard to actually sit through until the very end, unless you are equipped with a CD player that can remember when you last stopped the playback. Anyway, I always found this a rather interesting release, worthy of at the very least one serious investigation, if not numerous returns for additional scavenging!
Some of the artists who contributed to this are: Daren Seymour, Adi Newton, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lem Tuggle, Mark Va Hoen, Professor Roger Coghill, Robin Rimbaud, The Halfler Trio, and many "The Unknown Artist", amongst others.
With very little to go on as it were, and without the knowledge or musical database now available on the interweb (the late 90s were still generally primitive for online researches, especially for less-than-well-known musical outputs), I always thought this 78 minute album to be a compilation featuring sniplets and morcels donated by all the artists involved, and then mixed into one mamoth of a monster track as a whole new piece. It wasn't until I discovered info about this release online that I realized that this speciality disc was designed as a promo for the label Ash International, featuring mostly pre-released material but re-edited and re-designed as one big piece. In any case or whichever you want to cut the pie into (??!?!?) this is still quite an intriguing feat to saw the least. The piece works as one endless flow into different areas of the dark grey spectrum, at times very field recording and almost musique concrete, at others almost a soothing drone atmosphere, and featuring many elements such as Scanner's..., well Scanner's scanner (!), other diembodied voices, found sound, very light rhythmic elements, and so forth. Due to it's considerable length and lack of track indexing, it is very hard to actually sit through until the very end, unless you are equipped with a CD player that can remember when you last stopped the playback. Anyway, I always found this a rather interesting release, worthy of at the very least one serious investigation, if not numerous returns for additional scavenging!
Some of the artists who contributed to this are: Daren Seymour, Adi Newton, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lem Tuggle, Mark Va Hoen, Professor Roger Coghill, Robin Rimbaud, The Halfler Trio, and many "The Unknown Artist", amongst others.
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