Alchemy
- 艺人
- Third Ear Band
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Harvest
- 发行时间
- 1969年01月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Brian Whitener
Started in 1968 by percussionist Glen Sweeney and reedist Paul Minns, Third Ear Band was formed from the ashes of a previous Sweeney project, the psych band Hydrogen Juke Box. While generally overlooked in the history of British and improvised music, Third Ear Band developed a distinctive and aesthetically important sound -- equal parts Indian, psychedelic, and minimalist -- dubbed "electric-acid-raga" by Sweeney. Alchemy, their first release, is a wonderful record. With shorter tracks than found on later albums, Third Ear Band here makes excursions into improvised chamber music. In the opener, "Mosaic," which is at seven minutes one of the longest cuts, guitar meets recorder and violin in a disharmonic free jazz summit that fades away before building into a trancy mini-crescendo. On "Stone Circle," recorder lines interweave over an unadorned drum's repetitive rhythm. At times the recorder lines are so fluid and unnatural they sound like they're being played backwards -- which indeed they just might be. Generally the remainder of the tracks run the course between half-structured improv and droning chaos. Comparisons could be drawn to Soft Machine or the Dream Syndicate, but neither quite has the sense of "collective first" nor the repetitive insistence of Third Ear Band. The songs, to quote Sweeney again, are "alike or unlike as trees." For those even vaguely interested in the history of innovative music, Alchemy is worth hunting down.
热门评论
- @麦丘：专辑封面 不晓得 是取自哪部古籍刻本哦 貌似中世纪的场景 [炼金术]是纯器乐的实验摇滚 6位演奏者分别是——Paul Minns（oboe, recorder） Mel Davis （cello, pipe） Glen Sweeney （chimes, drums, tabla, wind chimes, hand drums） Richard Coff （violin, viola） Dave Tomlin（violin） John Peel （ harmonica, jaw harp）
最新简评（共12条）
- @Geworfenheit(购买诗集《落日飞奔术》电...)：豪横
- @History(我还没想好要写什么...)：好
- @未知生物：
- @灰(生命已经过期)：彼氓 2019-11-04 14:45 你死了 来自android客户端
- @Mr. WaterRat：john peel 居然真的就是那个peel session的john peel
- @鱼老板(ꊛ。一切无意识皆为熵)：太同步了！
- @扰乱(扰乱 就是 扰乱)：喜欢
- @tlmgt(松任谷由实的迷弟)：啊原来是有的，有这张！！！！没注意··· 第五首美惨了！！！
- @羊仙姑：因为讨厌王菲，我特别喜欢这种陌生的曲调，混乱、图腾崇拜一样的仪式感掺杂其中。人类的本源如此复杂，一切为开始的发展皆在其中。 tlmgt (松任谷由实的迷弟) 2013-04-18 13:20 关王菲什么事情啊= = 《讨好自己》她自己写的曲子，不算差吧，可以去听听。