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'Professor Emerson Meyers Provocative Electronics cdr' |
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2007/1970
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The Westminster Gold series is a well-known run of classical records that came out during the late 60s & early 70s on ABC Dunhill (always a laugh, as their reputation among classical collectors reamains a big fat zero). To get a few hippies buying the original longhairs, and to announce that they didn't give a shit whether fogey classical buyers gave them any clout or not, ABC hired brothers Peter & Christopher Worf to give the covers some pop-art oomph. And it mostly worked. Naked girls sell Beethoven just about as well as they sell cars, it turns out- and the photography on the whole series is really grand. Unfortunately, record collectors have long been hip to the fact that the sounds inside the eye-popping covers tend to be rather staid performances of trad. repertoire like Bach & Tchaikovsky. The few 20th century records that were issued on Westminster Gold are therefore often overlooked. But not by the folks at Creel Pone, who've found one of the greats. A synth-blorp mess by total nerds. Prof. Meyers was a real person & a genuine professor to boot, though I believe he mostly taught & played Chopin-type piano rather than patch-bay wack-off. The poor bastards at the Catholic University of America really must've thought he lost his marbles when they started hearing this stuff on the other side of the wall. Performers include Meyers, Katherine Hansel (soprano), Haig Mardirosian (organ), Frank Heintz (bassoon). Tracklisting: Rhythmus, Excitement, In Memoriam for Soprano & Tape, Chez Dentiste, Moonflight Sound Pictures, Fantasia for Organ & Tape, Intervals I, Fanfare & Raga for Bassoon & Tape.
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Meyers, Professor Emerson |
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Provocative Electronics |
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Creel Pone |
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