Label: Creel Pone

1983年にPaul Church Jr.が自主出版した唯一の激レア・プライベートLP[Just Passing Through]がCreel Poneラインナップ入り。クリスタルの音、ミュージック・コンクレート、ミニマリズムを融合させた不穏な雰囲気漂う電子音楽作品で、妙に叙情的なフレーズも出現する非常に面白い作風が魅力のアルバム。解説にJD Emmanuelや、Frank Beckerとの親和性とありますが、また彼らとも異なる良い意味で陰が強い/重みがある前衛ポップとも言える様な編成。





May 2023; Gorgeous reproduction of this hensteeth 1983 "Private" LP (initially issued by "Fritz Maude Enterprises") interlocking a particularly desirable vein of Crystal-gaze with more outré, Avant-Garde tendencies bordering on Musique Concrète & Electronic Minimalism.

Landing amidst a pastoral field of bongos & a full spectral range of droning synths & FM flicker, we're led into "Symphony No.1 For Piano And Technology"; a long stretch of the sort of modal, droning, effects-laden stage-piano drip familiar from such blessed affairs as Jordan De La Sierra's vaunted 1978 Unity-label affair "Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose" (with which Church's playing shares more than a passing resemblance).

Far from the tonal naivety usually associated with the common New Age Private, tracks like the clangorous dread of "Moving Ice" have much more going on compositionally, reminding a bit of Wilburn Burchette's Electronic work, and the bubbling, churning synths that fill every crack & crevice throughout this inspired affair share an affinity with the work of JD Emmanuel, Frank Becker, and other astrally-aligned travelers.