THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN LP GIL MELLE heaxagonal cover Lp NM KAPP
$
143
$ 143
Sold For
Nov 14, 2011
Sold Date
Nov 7, 2011
Start Date
$ 10
Start price
13
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Description
Gil Melle
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Original pressing from 1968 on Kapp Records, #KRS 5513, thick cardstock cover with unusual foil and flower like folding doors on the front, this is not a modern re-issue!
Like the 1950's psi-fi soundtrack, Forbidden Planet, 1971's The Andromeda Strain is one of the few Hollywood productions to feature an electronic music score. The soundtrack was composed by composer-musician Gil Mellé. It is a unique blend of electronically generated sound, manipulated taped sounds (musique concrete) and some traditional instrumentation (piano, double bass, percussion), punctuated by bursts of electronic white noise and pink noise. The meshing of such 'way-out' music would soon be coined 'progressive space.' At the same time period ('71) there was a creative scene in Germany where adventurous bands released albums on the OHR Records label, very similar to the experimental 'space music' of the Andromeda Strain. Adventurous eerie, ominous & atmospheric tones that developed trance & hypnotic flowing layers mixing avant-garde 'noise' art creativities in landscapes of sound...
TRACKS: Wildfire Hex - Andromeda - Desert Trip - The Piedmont Elegy - Op - Xenogenesis - Strobe Crystal Green
The vinyl is in near mint condition, it was apparently never played, the paper inner sleeve seems never to have been unfolded. The cover has a few minor creases in some of the "petals", and there's a "bullet-hole" cut-out mark in one corner. Still has it's little instructional sheet too!
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On Nov-11-11 at 07:37:03 PST, seller added the following information:
there was a question about wether or not this was the original inner sleeve, here's the other side:
