The Bran Flakes (Otis Fodder, Canada), The Evolution Control Committee (TradeMark Gunderson, U.S.), and Go Home Productions (Mark Vidler, U.K.) were given hundreds of recordings owned by the Raymond Scott estate, in all genres, including unreleased material, spanning the 1930s to the 1980s. They were invited to have fun, keep it rhythmic, and make it percolate. Each contributed six audio montages with new titles, and they collaborated on Scott's signature tune, "Powerhouse." Approximately 250 sample sources were used in the construction of 19 tracks. Those samples have been edited, looped, flipped, and stretched; they were tweaked with equalization, pitch-shifting, compression, and all manner of digital cosmetology. Scott fans will recognize some passages, but in countless cases, the source recordings have been rendered unrecognizable. Album produced by Irwin Chusid and Otis Fodder, to be released on Basta in 2013. Listen to 3 preview tracks below:
It was a blast working with these guys, who I've admired for years. The cover art was adapted from a 1950s Jim Flora illustration. No firm release date.
ReplyDeleteThis is WAY beyond Awesome!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat is beyond "awesome"? "Unbelievable"? "Incredible"? "Brilliant"? "Proof of an impending apocalypse"? Awesome is good enough for me.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for a UK release !!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely splendid. --I had independently found the ECC some time ago, so it was quite a thrill to discover you'd let 'im loose with a big bag of samples; even more thrilling to hear the result!
ReplyDelete(The others are great, too, BTW. Just didn't already have them on my iPod.)