Sunday, December 27, 2020

Brian Aspro - Music For BBC 2 Documentaries (1982)

The sleevenotes for this 1982 cassette release imply that it's a take-off of Brian Eno's ambient works, but it's really just an extremely competent collection of electronic music. The notes from the cassette are quite humourous, and are worth reading, so here they are.
The material contained on this album of 'Ambivalent Music' was recorded over the last two years and none has ever been (or is likely to be) used in a BBC2 documentary. All Brian Aspro compositions recorded cheaply and with the minimum of effort and equipment. Thanks to fellow musicians Jacko Pastorial bass (1.4), Schlaus Klutz - massed synthesisers (1.6), and Bob Frupp - treated guitar (2.5). 
It might not be quite as good as the Colin Potter releases from the same period, but then it's a different style of electronic music and so shouldn't really be compared anyway. Either way, I've obviously considered it good enough to hold onto the cassette for over 35 years so it can't be that bad. 




Track listing 

01 Mysterious Sequences Of Something Equally Impressive
02 Overland
03 Movements On A Glacial Plate
04 Without Frets
05 Station 5
06 Plotzlich (Eine Klein Durchfall Musik)
07 Two Sides Of The Same Face
08 MT2
09 Soft Appearances
10 Heathaze
11 Asprotronics
12 F..k Art - Let's Dance


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