Attileo Mineo:
"Man In Space With Sounds!"
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Audio fragment of this record in the Audioquarium |
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Audio fragment of this record in the Audioquarium |
| RATE: | +++++ EXCELLENT! |
| REVIEW: |
Plenty of futuristic music has been recorded over the past decades - especially on the dawning of the space age - but how much of it is STILL futuristic? This concept album is, and think of it: it was recorded way back in the early 1950's, that's more than 40 years ago! This is the music that was used at the Seattle World's Fair of 1962. Its combination of moody string orchestrations, theatre organ (?) and weird out-of-this-world electronics is strikingly dark, spooky, mysterious and industrial, not exactly the kind of stuff you'd expect to hear at a popular fair... some people at that time might have thought of it as avant gardistic noise - or at least noisy - music ... It's also slightly in contrast with the bright future that was portrayed by the fair's attractions and described by the narrator
This CD contains the 2 complete different LP versions that were issued in 1962: one with, and another without the spoken comments (there's also a limited issue LP reissue on the Spannish Wah-Wah label, with better graphics and more informative liner notes). Mastered from an original more or less mint LP copy, which is still far better than nothing, since this is an extremely rare LP! If you liked Russ Garcia's "Fantastica" album, then you defenitely should buy this cd! |
| DETAILS: |
artist: Attileo Mineo
title: "Man In Space With Sounds!" label info: CD, Subliminal Sounds SUBXMCD-604, Sweden, 1997 + USA, 1998 |
| AVAILABLE FROM: | Jack Diamond Music in the USA, Subliminal Sounds in Sweden. |