HR142 - Big City Orchestra - Aime-Morot - C60 — 1989
SIDE ONE:
TUNNEL BLONDEL CUSTINE NARCISSE DIAZ MONTGALLET |
SIDE TWO:
DUPLEIX BALZAC GERVIX DISQUE |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
California based Big City Orchestra (BCO) were a prolific force in the 1980s and beyond homemade music/cassette network. Aime-Morot is the second of two BCO cassette albums to be released by Harsh Reality (see also HR053, Arc Of Infinity).
This is an excellent album and worth touching on each of the nine tracks…
‘Tunnel’ opens Side One with a tasty, minimal soundscape vibe, creating creepy, surreal electronic landscapes. ‘Blondel’ is similar but more psychedelic, with its hallucinatory backward effects. ‘Custine’ is a beautifully eerie dreamscape song with vocals, feeling like a droney, melodramatic avant theater theme. ‘Narcisse Diaz’ serves up even more dreamy, minimal, space-scape joyriding. ‘Montgallet’ begins as a druggy dreamy melodic piece before taking on a shimmering, higher volume intensity.
Side Two kicks off with ‘Dupleix’, which incorporates news reporting samples about drug use into an ambient/screechy/orchestral/drone workout. ‘Balzac’ combines gentle hammer on metal plinking notes with other miscellaneous scrapes and object rattling against a quietly ominous orchestral/atmospheric backdrop. ‘Gervix’ sounds like a choir of ambient bells and edgy space ensemble, accompanied by rhythmic gurgling scraping patterns. Finally, ‘Disque’ closes the set with an intense Phantom Of The Opera drone symphony.
California based Big City Orchestra (BCO) were a prolific force in the 1980s and beyond homemade music/cassette network. Aime-Morot is the second of two BCO cassette albums to be released by Harsh Reality (see also HR053, Arc Of Infinity).
This is an excellent album and worth touching on each of the nine tracks…
‘Tunnel’ opens Side One with a tasty, minimal soundscape vibe, creating creepy, surreal electronic landscapes. ‘Blondel’ is similar but more psychedelic, with its hallucinatory backward effects. ‘Custine’ is a beautifully eerie dreamscape song with vocals, feeling like a droney, melodramatic avant theater theme. ‘Narcisse Diaz’ serves up even more dreamy, minimal, space-scape joyriding. ‘Montgallet’ begins as a druggy dreamy melodic piece before taking on a shimmering, higher volume intensity.
Side Two kicks off with ‘Dupleix’, which incorporates news reporting samples about drug use into an ambient/screechy/orchestral/drone workout. ‘Balzac’ combines gentle hammer on metal plinking notes with other miscellaneous scrapes and object rattling against a quietly ominous orchestral/atmospheric backdrop. ‘Gervix’ sounds like a choir of ambient bells and edgy space ensemble, accompanied by rhythmic gurgling scraping patterns. Finally, ‘Disque’ closes the set with an intense Phantom Of The Opera drone symphony.