Ghosts in the score

stirring up the dust
ghosts from the past whisper in
grooves of forever


There's a first for this blog - vinyl haiku.  I was looking for ways to describe this mix and as I collected expressive words, the list started to take on it's own poetic quality.   So I thought, what the heck, I'll just formalize it into an actual haiku.  It was fun, I haven't written any sort of silly haiku in years.

Anyway, the haiku fits this mix because the music is all dusty and scratchy.  It all has a old vinyl feel to it.  It some cases it has that feel because the music really is old, like early 1900s old.  Two of the tracks are actually old Edison cylinder recordings.  I searched through old recordings at archive.org for music that would blend well with the other ambient & neo-classical tracks in this mix.

I've done two previous mixes in this style - Sustain & Decay and Revenants of the Past.  A lot of ambient music makes use of noise, distortion, scratches, glitches, hiss & pops so the actual old recordings fit in nicely.  There are six old recordings that appear in the final mix.  Most of the ambient cuts are of fairly recent vintage.

I like the title for this mix because the word "score" takes on a double meaning as in a musical soundtrack as well as trench, channel or groove in a vinyl record or cylinder.

Enjoy the pops & hisses.


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    1956 RCA Victor Vinyl Records Educational Documentary
• 00:30    Arturo Toscanini - Romeo & Juliet Overture(Pt-1)1946
• 01:25    The Caretaker - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
• 01:45    e and i - known things
• 03:50    Maps & Diagrams - Longitudinal Vibration
• 07:20    Billow Observatory - Helsinki Radio
• 08:50    Tim Hecker - Sketch 6
• 10:00    e and i - tiniest smile
• 11:11    Philip Jeck - chime again
• 14:05    Edison Bohemian Orchestra Lacinquantaine Cylinder Recording
• 15:15    Ten and Tracer - By Twirling the Quicksphere
• 18:00    Tape Loop Orchestra - The Word On My Lips Is Your Name
• 19:50    Philip Jeck - Wipe
• 23:15    Benoît Pioulard - Pidgin
• 24:25    Mozart 'Gavotte in G' from 'Idomeneo' (1912)
• 25:25    The Humble Bee - The Collecting Plate
• 26:25    Part Timer - Undead part 1
• 30:15    The Caretaker - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
• 31:00    Semiramide Overture 1912
• 35:05    Maya Beiser - Time Loops
• 37:25    From The Mouth of The Sun - Color Loss
• 42:42    The Caretaker - A Last Glimpse Of The Land
• 45:15    Tape Loop Orchestra - The Word On My Lips Is Your Name
• 51:25    Albert Spalding - Thais(violin) Edison blue amberol cylinder 
• 52:30    The Humble Bee - Fin
• 54:07    end

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revenants of the past

One of my favorite mixes from last year was Sustain & Decay. It was fun digging up old recordings & mixing them with new releases.

So I decided to do a follow-up, with the result being "revenants of the past". It follows the same basic formula of last years mix(which was also released in October). I browsed through a ton of files at archive.org, looking for things like old vinyl records & Edison cylinder recordings from as far back as 1888. I mixed these recordings with current music that either sounds old or in some cases actually uses old recordings as a sound source to be manipulated into something new.

In the last mix The Caretaker figured prominently and here too there is an extended track in the middle of this sequel mix. The track is an excerpt from a mix James Leyland Kirby, AKA The Caretaker, did for Fact Magazine.

I think "revenants" is a good mix of familiar & unfamiliar artists here. I had to get William Basinksi's Disintegration Loops in somewhere & so the mix closes with a track from Loops #2.

Enjoy the entropy.

Download : 82mb, 60 min.
revenants of the past

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Around the world on a phonograph 1888
• 00:15 Szilágyi Imre Zenekara - kurucz motak (from 78rpm record)
• 02:25 SIGHUP - city heart (from the album "end of")
• 05:20 Cylon - 4feb1912pt12 (from the ep "winter")
• 12:30 Joe Belov - Air for G String 1920 Edison cylinder
  
• 12:30 Krzysztof Orluk - the girl the melody in the head (from the album "blurred reflection")
• 16:00 Glim - puszta (from the album "music for field recordings")
  
• 19:00 Okkyung Lee - sky (from the album "nihm")
  
• 25:30 Montauk - Tranquility (from the album "the moment lasts a second but the memory lives on forever")
• 26:15 Skye Boat Song (from 78rpm record, Edinburgh, Scotland)
• 26:30 The Caretaker - Fact Mix #45, May '09 (excerpt from Fact Magazine mix)
• 35:40 Asher - Minatures #11 (from the album "minatures")
• 38:00 Rae Eleanor Bal - Gypsy Love Song 1927
• 40:20 Lucky Pierre - velbon (from the album "touchpool")
  
• 42:40 Jaudas Society Orchestra - Beautiful Ohio Waltz 1919 Edison cylinder
• 43:10 Philip Jeck - 1986(Frank was 70 years old) (from the album "surf")
• 44:00 relmic statute - 1rhet ednalnge (from the album "sitting under the lantern's glow")
• 47:30 Bronnt Industries Kapital - maggots in the rice (from an untitled cd)
• 49:50 Alessandro Moreschi - Ave Maria 1904 Edison cylinder
• 51:50 36 - signal (from the album "Hypersona")
• 53:00 Sub Loam - ohr (part 3) stones, sunlight, morning (from the album "Ohr")
• 55:50 William Basinksi - dlp 3 (from "The Disintegration Loops")
• 1:00:00 end