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Martin Glass

The Interstellar Music of Martin Glass (LP)

Label: Kit Records

Format: LP

Genre: Electronic

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Martin Glass had been a surprise choice for the commission. It was the Spring of 1977 and two Interstellar Mariners were to be sent hurtling into deep space. Glass was to provide weekly "sonologues" of their progress, audio diarist for a pair of mute mechanical adventurers. Delivered with a near fanatical diligence over the course of nearly three decades, these stuttering musical biographies would soon bewilder those who had first asked for them. Martin's work, they judged, had begun to plot its own eccentric orbit, charting more than just the ships' material progress, but rather their imagined psychogeography ("What will they say about me?" "I will never conserve my instruments" "Nobody has gone further"). With his sonic dispatches increasingly ignored and unheard, all funding for the project swiftly fell to dust. The very best of these scores, chosen from a vast compendium of source material, are now assembled here for the first time. Their muses, two arthritic spacecrafts now nearly half a century old, limp on through deep space, forever onwards and onwards forever...

 

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Cat. number: KR65
Year: 2025
Release notes:
Sleeve notes: Martin had been a surprise choice for the commission. It was the Spring of 1977 and two Interstellar Mariners were to be sent hurtling into deep space. Glass was to provide weekly "sonologues" of their progress, audio diarist for a pair of mute mechanical adventurers. Delivered with a near fanatical diligence over the course of nearly three decades, these stuttering musical biographies would soon bewilder those who had first asked for them. Martin's work, they judged, had begun to…
Tracklist
A1Icarus Phase
A2The Last Picture I Took
A3Filter Coffee At The Heliopause
A4I Am The Furthest Thing
A5What Will They Say About Me?
A6Interstellar Disco
B1Focused Flight
B2Durutti Columns On The Astrobelt
B3And Then I Saw the Gas Giants...
B4Super Infinite
B5Time Is The Simplest Thing
B6I Touched the Empyrion

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