The Focus Group
Hey Let Loose Your Love
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Pieced together with musty samples from children’s exercise records, vintage drama, clunky British jazz and library records, this is an archaeology of emotion, an exploration of the power of not only childhood memories, but of the collective unconscious. Julian House’s own The Focus Group; oddly assembled sampledelic collages, stitched together from fragments of library cues and forgotten soundtracks. A beautiful, unhinged stream of consciousness that seems to prod at buried memories.
"Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny." - Rob Young
Release notes
"This is after all what connects the weird power of after-images and the strange glamour of phospor. The day to day output of this machine is a synthesis of ancient dreams and light entertainment." A Microphone in the Hedgerow, MB Devot Packaged in square cardboard slipcover.
| 1 | Icicle Wheel | ||
| 2 | You Do Not See Me | ||
| 3 | Clockbell | ||
| 4 | Echo Release | ||
| 5 | Xylophone Signal | ||
| 6 | Modern Harp | ||
| 7 | Inside The Rubber Box | ||
| 8 | Lifting Away | ||
| 9 | Today's Rhythm People | ||
| 10 | Hey Let Loose Your Love | ||
| 11 | String Sign Romance | ||
| 12 | The moon Ladder | ||
| 13 | Planning For Urban Green | ||
| 14 | Swinging Phantom | ||
| 15 | The Thre | ||
| 16 | Jam-Jar Carnival | ||
| 17 | Baroque Face | ||
| 18 | The Leaving | ||
| 19 | Reflected Message |
