Label: Creel Pone CP222

あのアシッド・フォーク名盤 Extradition [Hush]の一部楽曲にチェロ、コーラスで参加していたオーストラリアの実験音楽家Steve Dunstanが残した77年盤。一応プログレ、サイケデリック、風変わりなジャズ作品を混合したアルバムとして制作された様ですが、あまりにも変則的でマニアックな電子音使いはどう考えてもアヴァンマニア好み。





Reproduction of this obscure 1977 Private Press stunner by Extradition, Company Caine, & Phyl Vinnecombe sideman & early 18th Century Quartet member Stephen Dunstan, a key part of Australia's Electronic Music history alongside Val Stephen, Bruce Clarke, Keith Humble, Felix Werder, & Ian Bonighton.

Steve was a tragic figure; operating across multiple disciplines before disappearing under suspicious circumstances in the mid-80s while out retrieving a Moog Modular system, Dunstan was both a creative outsider & financial insider. This, his lone outing as a bandleader. starts off with a couple of Electronic-Psych moves that come squarely out of the 50 Foot Hose / Silver Apples / Spoils of War / United States of America playbook; fairly bog standard singer-songwriter heavy-psych flourish is cut with increasingly aberrant Electronic touches; a few tracks in, all traces of the original structures have been eroded, and by side two the machinations are purely synthetic in nature.

Owing perhaps to Tod Dockstader's late-night home-spun solutions, the proceedings across both the extended "Space Journey" & "Autumn In Antares" show a mature, fully fleshed-out approach towards sound-assemblage that breaks free from the era-appropriate Berlin school trappings, offering a far more complex & diffuse approach of which there were far fewer participants, making Dunstan's relative obscurity & mystery all the more tragic.

This Creel Pone replica edition recreates the original pressing, down to the quite visibly ring-burned sleeve, adding nothing but charm.