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Denis Wise

Wize Music (LP)

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Temporary Super Offer! Perhaps one of the most unique and unlikely exponents of the highly collectible genres of ambient electronics, experimental tape-music and Pina (Private Issue New Age) Denis Wise, this English born Jamaican raised sound designer, artist and existentialist furrowed his own ublinkered path through lesser chartered electronic fields for many moons before eventually teaming up with Bill Laswell (with Material) and Daevid Allen in New York to bring self-taught synthesis to Gong during their most oblique periods. Creating two impossibly rare self pressed vinyl LPs of conceptual inner-visionary outer-galactic angular tonal-dronal alien-art soundscapes in the process, the man known under figure shifting guises such as Dennis Wise/Denis Weise/Dr. Wise etc, combined a culture of sound system circuitry and radiophonic trickery adding Tea-pot poetry and sci-fidelity future-folk to his magnetic mesh! Presented here as the first ever dedicated ize Music collection this record combines compositions spanning 1979-1984 in both a solo capacity as well as small-group projects featuring members of the Emerald Web band.

Imagine a comic book where a Funkenstein monster called “Laraaji-Scratch Perry” invaded your record shelf while Komendarek and Holger Czukay kept lookout… Dr. Dennis might be the only one Wise enough to outsmart all of them with his powerful amorphous anaesthetic.

Details
File under: Electronic
Cat. number: FKR097LP
Year: 2018

Format

A5, B5 previously unreleased tracks from 1984, taken from Denis Wise's private archives

Release notes

A5, B5 previously unreleased tracks from 1984, taken from Denis Wise's private archives

Tracklist
A1Hedonic Rapture
A2Balfazzar
A3Machine Time Ship
A4Ya Alim-Kader
A5Celes
B1Alien Rock
B2Light As A Fair
B3Valhalla
B4Love In Foam And Surf
B5Andro
Credits
Andy Votel
Compilation Producer
Doug Shipton
Compilation Producer
Lee Janda
Compilation Producer
Denis Wise
Instruments [All Instruments Played & Manipulated By], Sleeve Notes
Helmut Erler
Lacquer Cut By
Gareth Mallinson
Restoration [Audio Restoration]