Having completed my initial assignment “to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me” (thanks, Chris Estey), and having enjoyed said project a GREAT deal, I’ve decided to post 25 MORE, for good measure.
So, “50 albums in 50 days”, here I come. Upon completion next month, I think it will amount to a highly entertaining “map” of my musical sensibility!
As before, I’ll be posting “just album covers without any explanation”, and nominating “a different person each day to do the same”.
By the by, please feel free to follow the eventual links (in the comments) to my longtime home at EAST PORTLAND BLOG, where my dear friend (and EPB editor) Dave has been re-posting my daily album selections (in an expansive layout where you can view ALL the variant album covers and aural media formats AT ONCE), plus a link to one song I’ve chosen to spotlight from each recording!
If you missed any along the way, want to revisit a particular post, or simply wish to listen to the songs, it’s MUCH easier to scroll back through these posts on EPB than it is on FB. Once you’re there, just click on the Tom Kipp “button”!
Today I nominate: Georgia Cook
Day 32:
Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy: TRUE (Kranky Records, compact disc, 1999)
Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy: TRUE (Kranky Records, promotional compact disc, 1999)
Album never reissued or released in any other format!
Purchased: 16 January 2009 (by FAR the most-recent acquisition among the 50 albums I plan to post, and also my most-played album of the past decade-plus!).
– Tom Kipp
Day 32:
Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy: “Virtually So #1” (1999)
Essentially, the album consists of fifty minutes of heavily-reverberant guitar/organ instrumentals that were composed and recorded for a New Zealand theater piece in 1996.
From the moment I heard TRUE in January 2009, I found it utterly TRANSPORTING, as though the two artistes had decided to play variations of Brian Eno’s “The Fat Lady of Limbourg” in every permutation they could conceive!In some respects, TRUE achieves a transportive effect not unlike Steve Reich’s MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS (see: Day 18!), though clearly its even more severe minimalism could be jocularly characterized as “Music for TWO Musicians”!
This opening track aptly expresses the album’s gestalt, though its slowly undulating repetitions take on their own transcendent quality across the full fifty minutes:
By the by, the arcane effects unit deployed throughout the album is rather fascinating in its own right!
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Finally, for comparison’s sake, here’s Eno’s “Fat Lady of Limbourg”, the third cut from his 2nd “solo” album, 1974’s TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY):
For those who’d like t’hear the entire album, here ya go:
