Label: Creel Pone CP 001

2005年にCreel Poneの記念すべきカタログ#1としてリリースされ絶版となっていたタイトルが新たな拡張仕様でリイシュー！！Robert Ashleyのアルバムへの多くのクレジット、またLovely Music、Pogus Productions、New World Recordsからの出版でも有名な電子音楽家Thomas Hamiltonの76年1st [Pieces For Kohn]。ジャケットにも使われている画家Bill Kohnの3D幾何学絵画の展示の為に作られた4編の電子音楽で、角の無い滑らかな感触、程よいユニークさとシリアスさのバランス、スッと入り込んで来る音全体の動きの心地良さ、全てが完璧過ぎる氏の最高傑作。更にJ.D. Parran & Rich O'Donnellと共に制作した1981年作[Formal & Informal Music]を追加収録。



A few stray copies of this 2009 second-edition of CP #1, preëmptively prepared prior to the Kvist-label 2CD set of the same material (then subsequently shelved upon the release of said) including the second Somnath LP, "Formal & Informal Music". Strictly for the completists.

A package arrived on the Reckankomplex doorstep just now (May 1st, 2005) return-addressed from a “Creel Pone” - I suppose we’ll have to leave everything else up to speculation - containing a few copies of this item here; a rather well done, albeit of dubious-legality repro of an absolute gem of a 1975 pointillist bleep-fest - the colors even come close to approximating the neons of the original Somnath-label lp artwork and the CD-R is printed very neatly! (damn I’ve got to get one of these new inkjet printers) by Mr. Thomas Hamilton, now better known as a member of Robert Ashley’s ensemble & the progenitor of various recording ensembles on the Pogus label.

Being someone enamored with all of the elements that make the LP so great - 1. Private Press edition, 2. musical accompainment to visual art, 3. created on a Serge Modular - I will spare the gush and let you know that this is the real deal: super dense multi-occurrence synth freakouts in varying degrees of complexity. no hokey trance-like arpeggiations, in fact no regular rhythms at all. Super mysterious and ultra-inviting, just the way it should be.