| Every track in this week's tire fire come carefully curated from the collection of the ... ok, enough alliteration. It's all vinyl this week. We're starting with songs with words.
The Dalbello track was covered by Queensryche on their 1986 release Rage for Order. |
| Making Plans for Nigel XTC - Drums & Wires - Virgin |
| Gonna Get Close To You Dalbello - Whomanfoursays - EMI Canada 
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| Generation 1942 Kornelyans - Not an Ordinary Life - RTB |
| Now some instrumental tracks, heading towards electronic.
Michel Madore was a Quebec-based keyboardist who released two albums, one more progressive rock and the second more electronic/ambient, before moving to France and becoming a painter. The cut here is from the first album. Georges Grunblatt was a member of latter-day Heldon and is joined on this record by a number of other Heldon alumni; Richard Pinhas, Michel Ettori, Didier Batard, and François Auger. Coming out the year after Stand By, it's a must-hear for followers of those musicians. |
| Samum (Detrée) Between - And the Waters Opened - Wergo |
| Calligraphie Michel Madore - Le Komuso à Cordes - Barclay
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| Vent d'ether Georges Grunblatt - K-Priss - Polydor |
| Electronic music not from Germany.
Pascal Languirand released three albums of electronic music in the late 70s/early 80s. Laza Ristovski had been a keyboardist in groups such as Bijelo Dugme (hard rock) and Smak (hard rock/prog) prior to setting out on his own and making a series of electronic albums. Didier Bocquet was a pretty obscure Berlin-school influenced French electronic artist, although he actually somehow got a brief mention in Edward Macan's seminal history of progressive rock, "Rocking the Classics". |
| Alpha 700 Pascal Languirand - Minos - Kebec-Disc
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| Beyond the Horizon Laza Ristovski - Merge - RTB |
| Nostalgia Didier Bocquet - Sequences - Pulse |
| And now electronic music from Germany, from a guy that needs to be heard by anyone who likes Klaus Schulze... who also produced this. |
| Cycles Wolfgang Bock - Cycles - Teldec |
| Some weird stuff from Bruce Haack and Terry Riley.
If you want to watch something pretty fun, search for "Bruce Haack Mr Rogers" on Youtube and see kids learn about avant-garde electronic music! The Terry Riley is a callback to some music I played on a couple of earlier shows. This is a later one of his and pretty good. |
| Super Nova Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer - Columbia
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| Celestial Valley Terry Riley - Shri Camel - CBS |
| Requiem Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer - Columbia
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| To close the show, not the tracks you wanted, but the tracks you deserve. |
| Terror is Real Moolah - Woe Ye Demons Possessed - private |
| The Cage Tuxedomoon - True Stories - Base Record |
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