Contact Field Orchestra- Vol. 1
Limited gold vinyl LP pressing. "In 2008 I came across a box of 7" tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were "field recordings" of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I did, what I found was an incredible documentation of indigenous folkloric music that was meticulously recorded and then later transferred to 2-track tape sometime in the 1960's. The tapes were labeled "Contact Field Orchestra"- a collection of field recordings that seem to date from sometime around the turn of the 20th century (possibly a little earlier). The sound this orchestra created is like something out of a Jim Jarmusch film, and reminds me of an old Library of Congress or Folkways recording. The music itself is full of opposites - hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring. It's strangely familiar, but also distantly unrecognizable. Some songs are more minimalist in their approach, building up a rhythm with mbiras and percussion, while others seem to have much more harmony and tonal structure and almost Blues/Country feel. Either way, they had me hooked from the first bar, and I find myself returning to it again and again, irregardless of my heavy-handed noodling... I'm really happy to have discovered this, and I hope you are too. All the best," Damon Aaron
Tracklist:
- Iron Pyrite
- In the Cave
- Tobacco Flower
- Shaman
- Into the Mine
- Man Down
- On the Autumn Sea
- Cart Before the Horse
- Wishing Well 1
- Lazzyman 1
- Bailar Phone 1
- Pick and Axe 1
- One Trigger 1
- Caja 1
- Perigee Campfire 1
- Hand Cranked 1
- Woodbury Gamelan
UPC > 659123108812
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Hit & Run
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Contact Field Orchestra- Vol. 1
Limited gold vinyl LP pressing. "In 2008 I came across a box of 7" tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were "field recordings" of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I did, what I found was an incredible documentation of indigenous folkloric music that was meticulously recorded and then later transferred to 2-track tape sometime in the 1960's. The tapes were labeled "Contact Field Orchestra"- a collection of field recordings that seem to date from sometime around the turn of the 20th century (possibly a little earlier). The sound this orchestra created is like something out of a Jim Jarmusch film, and reminds me of an old Library of Congress or Folkways recording. The music itself is full of opposites - hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring. It's strangely familiar, but also distantly unrecognizable. Some songs are more minimalist in their approach, building up a rhythm with mbiras and percussion, while others seem to have much more harmony and tonal structure and almost Blues/Country feel. Either way, they had me hooked from the first bar, and I find myself returning to it again and again, irregardless of my heavy-handed noodling... I'm really happy to have discovered this, and I hope you are too. All the best," Damon Aaron
Tracklist:
- Iron Pyrite
- In the Cave
- Tobacco Flower
- Shaman
- Into the Mine
- Man Down
- On the Autumn Sea
- Cart Before the Horse
- Wishing Well 1
- Lazzyman 1
- Bailar Phone 1
- Pick and Axe 1
- One Trigger 1
- Caja 1
- Perigee Campfire 1
- Hand Cranked 1
- Woodbury Gamelan
UPC > 659123108812
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Hit & Run
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
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Limited gold vinyl LP pressing. "In 2008 I came across a box of 7" tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were "field recordings" of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I did, what I found was an incredible documentation of indigenous folkloric music that was meticulously recorded and then later transferred to 2-track tape sometime in the 1960's. The tapes were labeled "Contact Field Orchestra"- a collection of field recordings that seem to date from sometime around the turn of the 20th century (possibly a little earlier). The sound this orchestra created is like something out of a Jim Jarmusch film, and reminds me of an old Library of Congress or Folkways recording. The music itself is full of opposites - hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring. It's strangely familiar, but also distantly unrecognizable. Some songs are more minimalist in their approach, building up a rhythm with mbiras and percussion, while others seem to have much more harmony and tonal structure and almost Blues/Country feel. Either way, they had me hooked from the first bar, and I find myself returning to it again and again, irregardless of my heavy-handed noodling... I'm really happy to have discovered this, and I hope you are too. All the best," Damon Aaron
Tracklist:
- Iron Pyrite
- In the Cave
- Tobacco Flower
- Shaman
- Into the Mine
- Man Down
- On the Autumn Sea
- Cart Before the Horse
- Wishing Well 1
- Lazzyman 1
- Bailar Phone 1
- Pick and Axe 1
- One Trigger 1
- Caja 1
- Perigee Campfire 1
- Hand Cranked 1
- Woodbury Gamelan
UPC > 659123108812
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Hit & Run
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
