Label: Creel Pone

凄まじい音源がCreel Poneラインナップ入り...。録音技術者であるJames Metznerとその仲間達が1975年~1977年にかけて出版、現地録音のフィールドレコーディングや電子音楽などを纏めて編集、大量のポートフォリオを付属させたり豪華ボックス仕様で作品化をした、民族誌の記録と実験音楽に特化した伝説的3タイトルが纏められCD-R化。1975年発表の[Sound Image Number 1」、[Sound Image Vol. 2: Greek Villages]、1977年発表の[Sound Image Vol.3: Bahia]を収録、第一弾は主に実験録音の特集となっていますが、第二、第三はギリシャとバイーアの生々しい日常フィールド・レコーディングのみで纏めた、OcoraやLyrichordの名作にも匹敵する凄まじい技術の録音が纏められています。第一弾の詳細を網羅した8ページのインサート付き。







This was the 43rd of the "Proto Creel Pone" (P.C.P.) titles assembled ca. 2003, collecting the three elaborate titles issued by James Metzner & company between 1975 & 1977 dedicated to in-situ ethnographic documentation & experimental music. Not to be confused with the eerily similarly-titled Alan Coggins & Wendy Cook 2LP (see: [CP 292 CD]) issued the following year, these pair elaborate gatefold & boxed-set editions laden with photographs & all sorts of ephemera (recreated here within reason; let's not have a reprise of the whole See+Hear debacle, [CP 201 CD]) with a selection of Electronic Music (courtesy of the obscure Julie Haines, along w/ the elder statesman Daniel Pinkham; Randall McLellan contributes liner notes) & a hodepodge of approaches ranging from Lo-Fi, overmodulated Aeolian Harp & Raga-Guitar experiments (by Metzner & Paul Dixon), Free-Jazz Oboe (by Bill Cole, whose "The First Cycle" LP was released alongside that "Dartmouth Composers" LP of DDS/Synclavier works), squeaking balloon noises (by Margaret Rebar), Interstellar Radio-Telemetries (by Richard Manchester), and a wonderful Psych-Folk rumination (by J. Rainbow).

While focused more on in-situ music-making & documenation of colloquial life, the successive volumes ("Sound Image Vol. 2: Greek Villages" & "Sound Image Vol.3: Bahia") present technically brilliant Field Recordings (despite being made with a Nakamichi 550 "Dual Tracer" cassette system, the fidelity is on par w/ anything from the Ocora or Lyrichord catalogues). This Creel Pone replica edition is presented in the familiar 3-lane format; each LP gets a panel for an overview, then one of liner notes/detail on the inside, along with a separate hand-cut & stapled 8-page insert with exhaustive detail of the first volume. Amazing set; winding down on these initial PCP titles!