Sir Mustapha
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Posted: April 17 2009, 13:21 |
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Quote (Dirk Star @ Mar. 14 2009, 17:07) | I remember seeing Gabriel on The South Bank Show around 1981/2,just prior to him releasing his fourth solo album.Going around a scrapyard and smashing up stuff,recording it as "samples" onto the Fairlight etc. |
That's the kind of stuff I'd love to do, personally; but then I look at how utterly mediocre Gabriel's 4th LP is, and I give up the idea. Mark Prindle put it well:
Quote | And all of the tracks feature the elusive, mysterious CMI on such settings as "Petswan," "Piztwang," "Saxy," "Marimba," "Glass," "Blown Drainpipe," "Horn," "Jaw," "Scraped Exhaust Pipe," "Swanee," "Clayt," "Trump," "Scraped Paving Stone" and "Glock." Sound interesting? It sure does! Unfortunately, when you put all these elements together, they sound like a bunch of synthesizers going "bwooooooooooooooo" while a little kid beats rocks together on top of them. |
Personally, I think Mike Oldfield did a far better job of using the CMI as a musical instrument instead of as a noise-making toy. Crises has that peculiar airy, vague, windy sound, and yet the music is phenomenally solid; that's oh so much more than Gabriel's Shock-the-Monkey-surrounded-by-yawn album. Sorry, but I just can't stand that album -- not merely for the sound itself, but for his treatment of the "outside" culture as a spooky, haunting, creepy yet exotic and "cute" little alien thing. He became basically the "parody" version of Mike Oldfield and David Byrne.
Sorry for the offtopicness.
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