GM003 : Rapoon - Time Frost - digipack ltd. 750
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1. Glacial Danube (06:08) Mixed and composed by
Rapoon (Robin Storey), July 2007
"One of the predicted swings in the
weather due to global warming is paradoxically a new ice age which could
envelope Europe. Time Frost is music based upon this concept and uses tiny
fragments of music from an iconic European composition, Johann Strauss's
Blue Danube. I imagined that tiny pieces of former cultures survived locked
in the ice and waiting for future archaeologists to discover and interpret
them.I used vinyl lock grooves of the Blue Danube (from the 1968 MGM
recording for the film soundtrack 2001 ) These formed the starting points
for the five compositions in Time Frost which were then manipulated and
added to and re-arranged into new compositions. Time Frost is an imaginary
recording of the mutational process of sound locked into ice and transformed
over millenia. Like ghosts of music trapped in an evershifting permafrost. |