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Toop - an erudite & entertaining singing chauffeur (metaphor) & a noted ambient musician himself - shows ways of listening differently- to natural & urban ambient sound & silences. Up there with Eno as a theorist of ambient music. DARK HORSEY SAYS- From Albert Ayler to Stockhausen, thru Parker, the Yuekuana Indians & ? & the Mysterions, Sun Ra, Kraftwerk, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Brian Wilson - all, all are interviewed in a history that travels from the Amazon to the virtual Las Vegas that is Las Vegas, from David Lynch standing quietly looking into the fridge to the yakuza mystics looking down on Tokyo - Debussy's first experience of Javanese music at the 1889 Paris Expo (Toop drove him there) to the fuse that blew badly burning Heather Quin Lin Lin's guitar pick & finger early in the gig for New Years 2001. (Toop drove her to the hospital.) |
