Label: Creel Pone

1974年にピンク・フロイド初のオーストラリア・ツアーのオープニングを務め、一躍有名になったオーストラリア出身のミュージシャンであるLindsay Bourke(aka Lindsay Blue)。Creel Poneが徹底的な調査をしてもなかなか発見に至らなかったという、氏が限定200部で1975年に残したプライベートLP[Love All Life]がCPラインナップ入り。フォークや田園風景的サウンドスケープ、オルガンのミュージック・コンクレートなど牧歌且つサイケデリックな内容で、同時収録の1971年作[Wilderness Awakening]はハンス・ポコラ称賛のタイトル。





here's a fascinating overview of the work of Lindsay Bourke (aka Lindsay Blue); an Australian musican who achieved some level of notoriety after opening for Pink Floyd's premier down-under tour in 1974. Despite my somewhat feverish attempt to uncover just about every Aussie title in need of the C.P. treatment while living the Antipodean dream 10 years or so back, this one somehow eluded even the most exhaustive of scourings, and has been a major point of excitement amongst the "Cabal" while working on this 20th Anniversary batch.

Starting (here) with the Private-Press 1975 "Love All Life" LP (with its almost Annabelle McBride -esque cover) one could easily dismiss this, cosmetically, as yet another mid/life-crisis "Leave The City" caravan-folk enterprise... yet upon entry we're met with a series of (pastoral, given) soundscapes that quickly morph into a sort of Loner-Electronic-Psych feel, rife with Musique Concrète passages & endless atonal hand-played synth lines that all add up to something far more unique & central to our particular ways of thought. I've added Lindsay's eerie organ/electronic score for Chris Löfvén's 1970 film "Part Two: The Beginning" (itself a mad hippy/commune/naturalist romp around the outback, centering a Matti Suuronen/Peter Dermoudy Futuro "UFO House") as a bonus track at the end of disc one.

Working backwards, the second disc contains the entirety of Lindsay's 1971 LP "Wilderness Awakening" to the proceedings; a wonderful 5-part thematic suite ("Discovery", "Contemplation", "Joy", "Absorbtion", & "Being") for solo piano that goes from the sort of plantive Willem Nyland / Gurdjieff -inspired modal exploration to more hamfisted Don Pullen / Cecil ranges on a hair-trigger, successively fêted by none other than Hans Pokora himself (the first appearance of a Pokora in the C.P. catalogue?)