Browse by Artist: RECCHION, TOM

Artist:	RECCHION, TOM
Title:	I Love My Organ
Label:	BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BMR 069CD

"The bulk of the material on Tom Recchion's second album for Birdman was recorded just after the completion of Chaotica in the mid-'80s, and sounds like a natural continuation of that record (despite the absence of any Esquivel). Recchion is assisted on some tracks by noted musician, composer, author, journalist for The Wire, and music curator David Toop (himself a collaborator with Eno, Jon Hassell, John Zorn, Talvin Singh, Adrian Sherwood, and Scanner). Recchion labored on I Love My Organ for years and years; dark and atmospheric, it is simultaneously creepy and relaxing lounge music for psychotics. Tom Recchion has been a notable personality in the Los Angeles underground avant-garde experimental music scene since the '70s, having been a founding member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, art rock band The B People, and creepodelic quartet Extended Organ. He's collaborated with the likes of Keiji Haino, David Toop, and done numerous installations at galleries in the United States and abroad. There's even a planned collaboration with the Kronos Quartet in the works. In 1996 Birdman released Recchion's first solo album, an astounding sound collage of looped, manipulated, and extrapolated music by Esquivel. Like soundtrack music to a never-before-seen David Lynch film, Chaotica sounded remarkably fresh and timely when released (even though it had been recorded at least 10 years earlier)."

Artist:	RECCHION, TOM
Title:	The Incandescent Gramophone...
Label:	POOBAH RECORDS
Format:	78
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PB78 001EP

...and The Song of Mister Phonograph. "The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Poo-Bah Records, and The Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission brings you an homage and exploration of the 78RPM vinyl medium in true 78 phonic quality. The proposal was to make a mysterious object out its time -- a conundrum. Something technologically obsolete, by the most standards. It is an homage to the beginnings of recording technology by combining current methodologies with older mediums of sound reproduction. The compositions derive its sounds from only 78rpm records -- the clicks, cracks, scratches, samples of previous recordings, internet mp3s, as well as the sounds that the record makes as an object in 3 dimensional space. Tom says, 'I wanted to make an object that will force people to seek out ways to listen to it. Most homes don't have 33rpm turntables anymore and even less with 78 players. For the 100 copies left in public spaces, the piece requires a personal effort of exploration. Those that don't ever listen to it and end up storing it on a shelf, it becomes an object of mystery and is transformed into something other than what it is intended for. It becomes a curiosity. Some will disregard it totally. I'm interested in a historical and technological collision and the confusion that may occur.'"

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