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artist:
The Loop Orchestra
title: Not Overtly
Orchestral
format:
cd
cat. #: quecksilber 5
release date:
23.02.04 |
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The
Loop Orchestra - Not Overtly Orchestral
The third album by the legendary Australian LOOP ORCHESTRA in their more than
20 years of existence. All compositions are rendered with tape loops on reel-to-reel
tape machines only.
The genesis of The Loop Orchestra occured in the ashes
of a simple two-tape-machine-no-man-band, The Nobodies,
which died in a fire in 1980. From those ashes, and with
a pastiche taken from the likes of TERSE TAPES, home of
seminal Australian Industrial outfit SEVERED HEADS, an
ashen poultice was formed to take up further and more involved
household heretical experimention, this time with reel-to-reel
tape machines.
This idea was subsequently expanded upon
in the studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm amid a group
of experimental
radio programmers. Two, John Blades and Richard Fielding,
were using the studio equipment as an instrument, experimenting
with tape machines through processes involving cutting,
dissecting, rearranging and rejoining prerecorded tape,
creating tape loops and playing them back.
They felt a need
to formalise their studio experimentation and so conceived
the idea of creating a full blown machine
orchestra. The intention of the Orchestra was for groups
of instruments of an orthodox orchestra to be represented
by reel-to-reel tape machines playing loops of the instruments'
sounds. In 1983 an ensemble comprising 4 reel-to-reel machines
playing slowly evolving tape-loop constructions, made its
live debut playing a live-to-air performance in the studio
of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm in 1983, as The Loop Orchestra.
In 1990 The Loop Orchestra released its first LP. Given the
extraodinary length of time between the formation
of the group and the debut release it was appropriately
entitled "Suspense". It was followed by a compact
disc, "The Analogue Years", in 1999. The current
lineup consists of John Blades, Richard Fielding, Emmanuel
Gasparinatos, Patrick Gibson and Hamish MacKenzie.
discography:
"
Suspense" LP (Endless Records, 1990)
"
The Analogue Years" CD (Endless Records, 1999)
"
Not Overtly Orchestral" CD (Quecksilber, 2004) |
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