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yam yam 
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
 Posted: November 06 2013 at 22:23 |
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Originally released in 1978 on the Northfield, Vermont based Green Mountain Records, Cellutron & The Invisible is the brain-child of one Robert S Greely. Their sole release - with the unwieldly title of "Reflecting On The First Watch, We Uncover Treasure Buried For The Blind", was recorded in Robert's home studio on a Teac 3340 with the help of some friends, & was based around the Oberheim Digital Sequencer and Arp 2600 synth, with some mostly pseudonymous fellow musicians providing various guitars, percussion & treatments. The album makes extensive use of sequencer generated patterns for all parts - melody, rhythmic structures and bass lines. There also tends to be an overpowering use of reverb throughout. It can be most closely compared to the work of Nic Raicevic. The album got a reissue on the infamous cd-r label 'Creel Pone' in 2005.
Note: The bit about the Teac 3340 came from here: http://www.loscha.com/scans/Polyphony-1978-10.pdf (on page 7 of 41)
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 02 2008 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 14258 |
Posted: November 07 2013 at 03:03 |
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Added bio of Day Shift
added bio to Drosselbart Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - November 07 2013 at 03:25 |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 07 2013 at 03:49 |
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Added DSCHINN bio and found a cool picture too. Love it
Dull KNife bio done Electric Mud Bio added http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5415 Eternidad bio added - just album cover to for photo unfortunetely http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1977 Gash bio added - another one off Krautrock band.... http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4546 So many Krautrockers with only one album in the 70s! this is cruising along now
Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - November 07 2013 at 05:55 |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 07 2013 at 06:39 |
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Last one for the day
added bio for Golden Avatar that brings the tally down to about make that 68 now Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - November 07 2013 at 06:44 |
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 07 2013 at 07:15 |
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^ ^^ & ^^^ Fantastic work, Scott!
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 07 2013 at 07:23 |
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Plenty of Cosmic Debris info here - it will need some editing though! http://www.pan.com/rlbugg/history.html
Edited by yam yam - November 07 2013 at 08:04 |
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yam yam
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Posted: November 07 2013 at 08:03 |
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Cucumber Farmer have several other releases it seems, as well as the one we have for them so far: http://www.americanbrothers.com/cf/
They don't exactly crave publicity, but as well as the info contained on the link above, there is also this bio from facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CUCUMBER-FARMER/7936378294 "CUCUMBER FARMER is a utopian socialist community Biography Cucumber Farmer became a unit producing rock music under the usual circumstances: with neither the talent nor the skills to actually make music. The mere passive consumption of popular culture was no longer satisfactory. New thrills were needed. As the band was afraid to take serious drugs, there was only one way left: to see what playing rock music feels like. In retrospect, the group stepped into the bodily stage of their art. They became part of that art. Many social and especially historical imperatives can be located inside this move. All sorts of “band activity” was at the time quite typical for what was known as generation X. Many people had less serious-minded, Soon enough the group was faced with inner dilemmas about the meaning of doing all this. What did they want to do? To become a solid “performer” of music, an easy product in the entertainment industry? What is the responsibility of an artist to the listener, i.e. the rock audience? There was a clear desire to do something fresh. Fresh things were tried. Some of them fared better, some worse. The evaluation of new experiments caused mixed feelings inside the group as well as among the audience. Stunningly, the point of view of evaluation remained at all times inside the sphere of so called alternative rock. And alternative rock, as is well known, is a very conservative circle, in many ways a closed one. The group wanted to distance themselves from the rock scene in many ways: by dressing up in work uniforms, releasing essays, declaring themselves as serious artists, playing in museums, picking up interest in cinematic montage, printing political pamphlets, making lecture tours etc. We recognise the effect the surrounding culture has on our works. We fight against it, we re-work it to our own benefit, we take it in our command and rule it. We do not measure the end product at the context given to it by that culture (this refers to the usual popular culture criteria such as “a good song” or “air play potential”) Our aim is to forget word like “good” or “bad” and to replace with something new. Those two words we wish to transfer to the process itself. We want a listener as prone to reflection and to broadening the listening experience, as ourselves. On the other hand we demand fast thrills, the superlative feedback produced by a superlative moment. We don´t actually want to know, what it is that we are doing. But we know we are doing something right. The truest form of music is not in words. Words are a form of singing. Singing is not music at the deepest sense. Singing is words put together, bringing forth numerous semantic and cognitive meanings inside our culture. Words operate on intellect. Emotional reactions to words take shape retrospectively We are not humorists. Music has to take back the spot that singing stole from it. Music is full-on abstraction, it is multi-layered, unexplainable. It supplies the most direct route to emotion, to flesh, to experience. The aim of this band is to work all this inside a pop structure, to defeat The Intellect at its own game, to be familiar and unexpectable at once. Above all, to research the possibility. With no result. Empirically. Again - it'll need some editing!  |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 07 2013 at 23:42 |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 01:03 |
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Added the rest of the albums to CUCUMBER FARMER and added a bio - wading through all their weird jargon on their site
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 08 2013 at 03:07 |
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^ & ^^ Two more really excellent pieces of work, Scott!
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yam yam
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 03:53 |
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A short bio for Dreamworld can be made from this Amazon review of 'On Flight To The Light':
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0000579IJ The two guys behind the project started off as Yatha Sidra, and a mention of Dreamworld is made in Philippe's bio on that page. Confirmation can be found in this discussion thead: http://launch.dir.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/e-Prog/conversations/topics/19020, also on Discogs. The Fichter brothers actually recorded 'On Flight To The Light' in BrunoSpoerri's studio, where they probably found a LOT of electronic equipment to play with. Two more additions to the artist's discography can be found here: http://www.krautrock-musikzirkus.de/en,Dreamworld_782,N.html, or on the Discogs link above. John Davie (Mellotron Storm) may know more - he wrote the review of the 'On Flight To The Light' album: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=230373.
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 08 2013 at 04:49 |
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Elicoide has very little info available it seems, other than that it was the project of Franco Nanni with assistance from Paulo Grandi on double bass, but the album entry certainly needs improving (no track titles at present): see http://www.discogs.com/Elicoide-Elicoide/release/2896477. This from a recent Japanese post-ambient blog: http://post-ambient.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/794-elicoide-elicoide.html "Up to now since the 1980s, has been working in stance to compose a personal Italy Forli born composer / psychiatrist Franco Nanni solo project by Elicoide (Franco Nanni). It means "spiral", as ribbon gene that was drawn jacket, repeat amplification decline, the project name repeated earnestly while draw the shape of complex sound sequence with a tone like sparkling with 8-bit computer and synthesizer minimal Works to slide into. (Paul / Grundy) participated in a double-bass Paolo Grandi closely related with Francesco Paladino and Tiziano Popoli. Has been announced, "L'Angelo Dei Numeri" as Elicoide Ensemble in 1990." That's what Google made of it - Damo would probably give you a better translation! The other album referred to (from 1990) does exist too, and might need to be added: http://www.discogs.com/Franco-Nanni-Elicoide-Ensemble-LAngelo-Dei-Numeri/release/4478291. Franco Nanni has a facebook page, but I found little on there of any assistance: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pianistapercaso-Franco-Nanni/151172921619478 He is also indeed a psychiatrist, it would seem: http://www.franconanni.it/index.html (the site is red-flagged by mcafee as having one or more suspicious behaviours, so be careful if you go there - no info of any relevance to be found on it anyway!)
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 06:02 |
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Added bio for ELICOIDE and fixed one albums tracks and also added extra album
not sure how to fix bio pic as theres none available and album pic is bad but none available Thanks for the heads up David! |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 06:16 |
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Added bio to DREAMWORLD
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 06:23 |
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Just added 2 extra albums to DREAMWORLD
64 bands left to go! Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - November 08 2013 at 06:24 |
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 08 2013 at 09:16 |
You could use Franco's mug shot from his facebook page: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/247301_151605011576269_1672661_n.jpg Also I made a typo error in line 1 of my post  - it is Paolo Grandi, not Paulo Grandi...Bio needs amending..sorry!  |
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yam yam
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Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6344 |
Posted: November 08 2013 at 13:40 |
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Fireclan has a perfectly useable bio on their bandcamp page: http://fireclan.bandcamp.com/.
Basically Fireclan is the trio of Don Falcone, Mychael Merritt and Luis Davila, with some guest musicians (which include Daevid Allen of Gong). Don was the driving force, it seems, and you can read all about him here: http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/falcone.html, with an extensive interview here: http://www.scaruffi.com/interv/falcone.html (conducted before the days of Fireclan, so the project isn't mentioned at all, and the interview is only really of historical interest). More info also here: http://aural-innovations.com/2004/june/fireclan.html. And all sorts of info related to the band and its members can be found on Don Falcone's website : http://www.nohpoetryrecords.com/fireclan.html, and for the rest of his projects try: http://www.nohpoetryrecords.com/, or wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Falcone. Bandcamp lists Karen Anderson as a third guest musician, but our entry for the 'Sunrise To Sunset' album doesn't include her. She actually had a hand in writing track no.5, 'Riding The Shaman's Drum', and played nut and egg shakers on it!! (http://www.planetgong.co.uk/bazaar/cd/fireclan.shtml). I think that ought to do...!!  Edit: A later interview with Don Falcone from 2006: http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue34/falcone1.html. There used to be a small image of the band on the old myspace: http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/115/2565cafdc3fd43a98ce8b4dd1b229d2a/m.jpg, also included here: http://home.earthlink.net/~falcone/photos.html, but it isn't on the new myspace: https://myspace.com/nohpoetryrecords, and I couldn't get it via the wayback machine either.  Don is on facebook though - he might be able to send you a pic of the band if you message him there: https://www.facebook.com/donfalcone.  Edited by yam yam - November 08 2013 at 14:18 |
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aapatsos
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 14:17 |
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^^ done and ^ done - I put Don's pick, better than nothing
thanks Dave, down to 63 I guess |
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yam yam
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 14:41 |
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Cellutron & The Invisible could also be taken out of the list if the brief bit I put at the top of this page is of any use: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1509&PID=4886570#4886570.
And there is a second album to add to the page too, full details of which can be found here: http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/cellutron+++the+invisible.html.  The original album is here: http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/cellutron.html & the album cover contains Robert's mugshot, so I guess would be ok in lieu of a band pic.
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yam yam
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Posted: November 08 2013 at 15:10 |
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Perfectly good bio for Framework has been added to the album page by the keyboard player mark price: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9916.
Mark was later a member of High Spy, and toroddfuglesteg interviewed him here back in 2011. In the interview he talks about the "...Year by Year DVD which features three of the members in the 1992 incarnation of HIGH SPY which was FRAMEWORK. The FRAMEWORK band was short lived and their was a lot of material which never came to the public, so some of the songs not all, are now included in the HIGH SPY Catalogue"
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