Kuusisto Norwegian Chamber Orchestra - First Light - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kristiansand Chamber Orchestra - Contemporary Norwegian Music for Chamber Orchestra [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/25/2000

Tom Basden/Carey Mulligan - InchThe Ballad of Wallis Island (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Inch. The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, creating these intense and engaging songs as Second Layer at the same time as their higher profile band output. Following the of Courts Or Wars, combining their early material, 1972 is proud to reissue their only full length album, World Of Rubber.Fueled by experimentation in both song construction and recording techniques, the duo leave you enveloped in what The Quietus described as Incha monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanizing effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society.Inch Indeed, the goal had been to make each album a concept album, with this to be titled Second Layer's World Of Rubbe. Alas, this was to be the first and last of those efforts. New detailed liner notes from Graham Bailey shed considerable light on the creation of this cold classic and it's immediate aftermath.Bailey's inventive construction and deconstruction of various electronics, effects boxes and tape loops form the propulsive base for these songs. Borland's guitar playing is jagged and unleashed. Above it all is an undeniable sense of melody and Borland's distinctive vocals. Soon, they would wonder where Second Layer ended and The Sound began, but World Of Rubber would stand as a document of this fertile period. It would also be a lasting testament to their desire to push the boundaries of their creativity. Dark and brooding the result is what Bandcamp described as Inchbrutally bleak, blank-eyed post-punk that remains chillingly compelling.Inch