AUGUSTYN BLOCH The Brain UNUSUAL SOUNDS Vol. 2 LIBRARY synth Mint

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Augustyn Bloch - Unusual Sounds Vol. 2 - The Brain (Germany, Sonoton, `82)

Cover: M- / Disc: Mint, pristine

Rare electronics library LP from Polish composer/musician. I was going to say something lazy like "if Conrad Schnitzler did incidental sci-fi soundtrack music" but this description from the excellent Continuo blog is much better: Subtitled The Brain, the second volume, published 1982, collects short sound experiments in the field of contemporary music and musique concrète. Traditional acoustic instruments like piano, flute, trumpet and percussion, are mingled into an unsettling sonic brewage thanks to primitive electronic devices and radical sound treatments. Bloch favors inside the piano playing and percussion sounds from the piano’s structure, while flute parts are usually graced with generous doses of reverb. Several tracks use heavily slowed down or distorted metronome sounds, in a kind of Pierre Schaeffer abstract études from the 1950s – the same process is applied to shrilling cat meows on track #15. Elsewhere, seriously paranoid synthesizer interjections reinstate the menacing atmosphere pervading in the track titles, while some piano parts recall Krzysztof Komeda’s Rosemary’s Baby soundtrack. A fantastic LP, by any standard.

24 tracks
Total time 40:43

LP released by Sonoton, München, Germany, 1982

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