Barton and Priscilla McLean
Electronic landscapes
Originally issued in 1979, first time on CD with bonus tracks. Although Barton and his wife Priscilla McLean have had a long and distinguished history of LP and compact disc albums throughout their professional composer/performer career, this album is unique in that it is the first one to present, on one CD, such a broad and comprehensive picture of their purely electronic music, spanning 1975 through 2001. Interestingly, although their materials and equipment have changed, their ideas of musical composition are still basically the same, creating a unity throughout the CD. From the liner notes: "When Bart introduced me to the new studio with the Synthi-100, I stared unbelievingly: here was a huge synthesizer, along a whole wall, with hundreds of push-pins (a matrix setup for connecting sounds, rather than the old patch cords), and 22 oscillators! The Synthi-256 Digital Sequencer was a full-sized keyboard, standing alone diagonally to the analog synthesizer, but connected internally. In that studio with the giant machines, one raced from one end of the room to another to play and record the sounds, never sitting down, and in removing unwanted noise or editing out a recorded section, the composer had to take a metal splicing block and sharp razor blade, and pressing down very hard, cut through the 1" wide acetate tape in two places, remove the unwanted time segment, and rejoin the two remaining ends with special splicing tape! So we three -- Bruce, Bart, and I worked all our spare time, alternating with each other, in the I.U.S.B. Studio. I spent whole days there, sometimes 22 hours long, working and working to get just the right sound-combinations and record them." --Priscilla McLean
Details
Cat. number: EM 1060CD
Year: 2009
Notes:
Includes a 24 page booklet with liner notes in English & Japanese.
'Invisible Chariots' composed between 1975-77.
'Song Of The Nahuatl' composed in 1976.
'Valley Of Lost Dreams', taken from 'Visions Of A Summernight' composed in 1988-89.
'Journey On A Long String' composed in 2001.
'Angels Of Delirium' composed in 2001
'Invisible Chariots' composed between 1975-77.
'Song Of The Nahuatl' composed in 1976.
'Valley Of Lost Dreams', taken from 'Visions Of A Summernight' composed in 1988-89.
'Journey On A Long String' composed in 2001.
'Angels Of Delirium' composed in 2001
