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Take It Easier (transparent lilac vinyl 7")

Altın Gün return with a masterful album that widens their critically acclaimed exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic stylings to include dreamy 80’s synth-pop and dancefloor excursions. Yol (Road) brings together all vectors of the Altın Gün experience and delivers their most compelling and individual album to date.---------------------------------------Amsterdam’s Altın Gün have built a strong reputation for melding past and present to make brilliantly catchy, psychedelic pop music, as seen with their Grammy-nominated second album, Gece. They are also a renowned live band with strings of sold-out shows on three continents, who have consistently brought a muscular groove to their recordings. Yol, their third album in as many years, excitedly continues these trends; while also digging in deep to unveil a new palette of sonic surprises.

Belle copie w/ inner sleeve. Pressage français. Avec Green, Steve Hillage renoue avec ses deux premiers albums, avec des titres space et des spirales de synthétiseurs. Mention spéciale au très funky Unidentified (Flying Being) et à The Glorious Om Riff, reprise de Master builder de Gong, paru en 1974 sur You. C'est le dernier album rock réussi de sa période solo, avant une nette baisse de qualité sur les opus suivants, hormis Live Herald et l'ambiant Rainbow Dome Musick. C'est un des albums préférés d'Ed Wynne, le guitariste/claviériste d'Ozric Tentacles1.La pochette représente une Pyramide poisson de John Michell, un auteur et peintre britannique qui a un intérêt particulier pour les formes géométriques. Son travail repose sur la figure géométrique Vesica piscis : l'intersection de deux cercles de même diamètre dont le centre de chacun fait partie de la circonférence de l'autre.L'album est d'abord sorti sous la forme d'un vinyle vert transparent, puis sous celle d'un disque noir normal. L'édition verte était assortie d'un poster de Hillage devant une chaine de montagne, avec la "pyramide poisson" imprimée sur le visage2.Cet album se classa à la 30e place des charts britanniques.Steve a beaucoup utilisé une guitare synthétiseur Roland GR-500 sur l'album. On notera la présence de Nick Mason à la batterie sur la pièce Leylines to Glassdom sur le disque original, ainsi que Clive Bunker ex-Jethro Tull, aussi comme batteur sur les 4 pièces bonus enregistrées en concert au Rainbow de Londres, sur la pièce Not Fade Away (Glid Forever). Steve Hillage – Chant, guitare électrique, guitare synthétiseur, synthétiseursMiquette Giraudy – Synthétiseurs, vocoder, chœursCurtis Robertson Jr – BasseJoe Blocker – BatterieNick Mason : Batterie sur Leylines to Glassdom, production

In the late-1970s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. Traditional Southern rock had been the Georgia musical export for years before but the turn of the decade began producing new sounds from bands like the B-52’s, REM and Alt Rock luminaires Pylon. Before they were a band, Pylon were art-school students at the University of Georgia: four kids invigorated by big ideas about art and creativity and society. However, Pylon were less of a band and more of an art project, which meant they had very specific goals in mind, as well as an expiration date. While their time together as a band was short lived (1979-1983), Pylon had a lasting influence on the history of rock and roll. Throughout their brief history, they were able to create influential work that would help foster the post-punk and art-rock scene of the early 80s. Artists like R.E.M., Gang of Four, Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Interpol, Deerhunter and many more claim inspiration from the band. Their 1979 single ‘Cool’ / ‘Dub’ reached legendary status, with Rolling Stone titling it one of the 100 Greatest Debut Singles Of All Time. In 1980 the band released their first record, ‘Gyrate’, and began touring across the country in support of the release. The band would soon develop a following across the country and specifically in the bustling music scene in New York City. One of their earliest gigs was opening for the Gang of Four in the Big Apple. Following the critical acclaim of their debut release, Pylon went back into the studio. They gleefully pulled their songs apart and put them back together in new shapes, revealing a band of self proclaimed nonmusicians who had transformed gradually but noticeably into real musicians. The resulting album, ‘Chomp’, was barely off the press when Pylon were booked to open a run of dates for a hot new Irish band called U2 (after previously playing two arena shows with them in the month leading to the album release). Most bands would have jumped at the opportunity but Pylon were sceptical. At a critical point in the life of Pylon, they opted to become a cult band rather than stretch their defining philosophy too far. “We fully intended Pylon to be an almost seasonal thing that we were gonna do for a minute and then get on with our lives,” says Curtis Crowe, drummer for the band. “But it just never went away. It still doesn’t go away. There’s a new subterranean class of kids that are coming into this kind of music, and they’re just now discovering Pylon. That blows my mind. We didn’t see that coming.” New West Records are proud to partner with Pylon to reissue ‘Chomp’ and ‘Gyrate’ back into the masses. Beautifully remastered from the original audio sources and pressed on vinyl (140g) for the first time in over 30 years. New West Records also present ‘Pylon Box’, a comprehensive look at the band that features the remastered studio LPs ‘Gyrate’ and ‘Chomp’, the 11-song collection ‘Extra’ - which includes rarities and previously unreleased studio and live recordings - and ‘Razz Tape’, Pylon’s first ever recording: a 13-song unreleased session that pre-dates the band’s seminal ‘Cool’ / ‘Dub’ debut. ‘Pylon Box’ also includes a hardbound 200-page full colour book featuring pieces written by the members of R.E.M., Gang of Four, Steve Albini, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Interpol, B-52’s, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Mission of Burma, Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and K Records, Anthony DeCurtis, Chris Stamey of the dB’s, Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate and many more. Features an extensive essay chronicling the band’s history, with interviews with the surviving members of the band as well as members of R.E.M., B-52’s, Gang of Four, Method Actors and more. It also features never before seen images and artifacts from both the band’s personal archives as well as items now housed at the Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Museum of Art, UGA.

Rumeurs des musiques anciennes et lointaines, instruments faits-mains, radios-transistors modifiés….

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