''Microphone Music''
THE RAYMOND SCOTT QUINTETTE |
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Listen to Sound Clips:
Egyptian Barn Dance
Hypnotist in Hawaii
Celebration on the Planet Mars
Pretty Petticoat
Suicide Cliff
Square Dance for Eight Egyptian Mummies |
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"A perfectly calibrated mix of the whimsy and anarchy that forms the philosophical basis for every great cartoon since the genre's golden age. Scott's compositions are at once fantastical and very cool. The music is fun, trippy, and wholly original. Long may the six-piece Quintette reign."
-Neal Pollack, eMusic
"I've always thought that the 'sound' is as important as the 'note.' Like hand in glove, the microphone placement and recording technique are part of the arrangement, and Raymond Scott was a sonic soul-mate in this regard. The man was a slamming composer! I'd heard some of these performances lifted and looped by contemporary artists, like Soul Coughing, but never knew the source. The RS Quintette was a monster -- the Mahavishnu Orch of the 1930s. Did these guys invent prog?"
-Pat Mastelotto, drummer, KING.CRIMSON
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"This collection of 66-year old monophonic recordings is an explosion of color, an amalgam of technology and furrowed brow musical hard work. While most titles suggest a Dada influence, this is sharply detailed and swinging music. The liner notes and interviews cast a bittersweet glow of time lost, but as pointed out -- thanks to a little help from Scott's microphones, The Raymond Scott Quintette is still here."
-David Cross, ROCHESTER CITY NEWS
"MICROPHONE MUSIC is deep. The more I listen, the more I realise that these guys, The Raymond Scott Quintette, were like the Beatles of the 1930s, in so many ways, particularly in terms of sonic innovation and compositional creativity -- to say nothing of their chops. They were all such remarkable players."
-Bill Kates, Production Director, XM SATELLITE RADIO
"A two-disc bonanza of unreleased titles, rarities, and rehearsals from the late '30s that will taste of manna from heaven for listeners who spent a decade in the wilderness after Columbia's 1992 greatest-hits volume. These certainly don't sound like afterthoughts, either; Raymond Scott took quality control very seriously, and the result is a set of 40 splendid, fascinating songs that often sounds better even than the Columbia release. Most of the songs are new to CD, and even the familiar titles are presented in radically different interpretations. Scott is usually recognized as a compositional or arranging genius, but the focus here is on his talent for sound reproduction. His constant recording experiments produced dynamic music utterly unlike anything heard before, since sound had never been picked up and amplified the way Scott did it. The relative scarcity of RS Quintette recordings is enough to boost this set into recommended status, but the bounty of fabulous music inside makes it essential for fans and highly recommended for the uninformed."
-John Bush, ALL MUSIC GUIDE
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Produced by: Irwin Chusid
Project Advisors:
Gert-Jan Blom,. Jeff Winner
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Art Direction:
Piet Schreuders
Executive Producers:
Theo & Jeroen van der Schaaf
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A new collection of vintage 1930s Raymond Scott Quintette reordings, entitled MICROPHONE.MUSIC...
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The title refers to Scott's emphasis on the microphone as a "seventh member" of his legendary six-man Quintette, and the mic's importance in helping Scott shape the recorded sound of his ensembles. The 42-track compilation features unreleased titles, radio performances, first-rate rehearsals, and out of print gems by the Raymond Scott Quintette, recorded between 1937 and 1939. The collection was mastered from discs preserved in the Scott archives. It includes the first CD release (* and first EVER release) of the following Scott recordings:
A Little Bit of Rigoletto.*
The Girl with the Light Blue Hair.*
The Happy Farmer.*
Dead End Blues.*
Egyptian Barn Dance.*
Harlem Hillbilly.*
Hypnotist in Hawaii.*
Microphone Music.*
Pretty Petticoat.*
Square.Dance.for.Eight.Egyptian.Mummies.*
Suicide Cliff.*
Swing, Swing Mother-in-Law.*
The Quintette Goes to a Dance.*
Turkish Mish-Mush.*
Yesterday's Ice Cubes.*
...as well as spirited performances of a few non-Scott compositions (e.g., "Bugle Call Rag"* & "Brass Buttons and Epaulettes"*). The compilation also includes remastered transfers of RSQ radio and rehearsal recordings originally released in 1991 on the now out of print Stash Records CD and reprints of late 1930s newspaper and magazine articles about Scott and his pioneering music and studio engineering...
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DISC ONE:
Egyptian Barn Dance
The Penguin
Christmas Night in Harlem
Pretty Petticoat #1
Square Dance for Eight Egyptian Mummies
Moment Whimsical
Devil Drums
A Little Bit of Rigoletto
Hypnotist in Hawaii
Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
The Toy Trumpet
Suicide Cliff
Siberian Sleigh Ride
Steeplechase
Peter Tambourine
Celebration on the Planet Mars
Brass Buttons and Epaulettes
Bumpy Weather Over Newark
Pretty Petticoat #2
Turkish Mish-Mush
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DISC TWO:
Microphone Music
Twilight in Turkey
New Year's Eve in a Haunted House
Tobacco Auctioneer
The Girl With the Light Blue Hair
Sleepwalker
The Happy Farmer
Oil Gusher
Boy Scout in Switzerland
Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner
Swing, Swing Mother-in-Law
Girl at the Typewriter
Yesterday's Ice Cubes
Pretty Petticoat #3
War Dance for Wooden Indians
Dead End Blues
Harlem Hillbilly
The Quintet Goes to a Dance
Bugle Call Rag
Powerhouse
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