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6 MOONS OF JUPITER
John HILL
- Ref. XH581A
- FINDERS KEEPERS RECORDS, 1971. Enregistrement 1970.
This is one of those albums that encapsulates the very raison d'etre of a reissue label like Finders Keepers, or Trunk for that matter. John Hill's Six Moons Of Jupiter is a dizzying cocktail of avant-garde jazz, cosmic psychedelia and electronic experimentation, intermittently augmented by the poetry of Susan Christie who recites text over parts of certain tracks. There are drum-fuelled beat tracks like 'Io' or the David Axelod-like 'Amalthea', and then there's some woozy, electroacoustic soundscaping on the hazy, effects-laden 'Ganymede', all of which are ideal fodder for library hounds, but 'Callisto' and 'Elara' mark the real creative peaks here, eschewing the kind of exotica-appeal that tends to taint reissues with a hint of kitsch. The latter of these compositions draws a certain amount of influence from Messaien's Turangalila Symphonie in its ambitious, often erratic harmonies and its mingling of conventional and electronic instrumentation.
Interprètes
- John HILL : Guitare basse, Moog synthesizer, Flûte, Orgue Hammond, Guitare, Recorder
- Gerry MULLIGAN : Saxophone baryton, Saxophone alto
- Jimmy VALERIO : Drums, Percussion
- Larry GOLD : Violoncelle
- Walter SEAR : Programming [Synth.]
- Julie CHRISTIE : Spoken word
Pistes
- 1 Europa
- 2 Amalthea
- 3 Clear in the black
- 4 Ganymede
- 5 Green gold
- 6 Io
- 7 The emptiness cries
- 8 Callisto
- 9 Still in our dreaming
- 10 Elara
- 11 Europa (alternate version)
- 12 I am the storm of dawn