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I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy

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Download links and information about I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy by Joe Meek & The Blue Men. This album was released in 2015 and it belongs to Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 32:58 minutes.

Artist: Joe Meek & The Blue Men
Release date: 2015
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Tracks: 12
Duration: 32:58
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. I Hear a New World 2:44
2. Orbit Around the Moon 2:49
3. Entry of the Globbots 3:09
4. The Bulblight 2:43
5. March of the Dribcots 2:07
6. Love Dance of the Saroos 2:33
7. Glob Waterfall 3:15
8. Magnetic Field 3:10
9. Valley of the Saroos 2:50
10. Dribcots Space Boat 2:16
11. Disc Dance of the Globbots 2:15
12. Valley of No Return 3:07

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In 1960, Joe Meek — already thinking in terms that couldn't be constrained by the limits of the day's technologies and marketing strategies — devised a "concept LP" of sorts that speculated about the nature of life on the moon (this was almost ten years before Apollo 11). Working with a group of musicians he dubbed the Blue Men, this "outer space music fantasy" tried to conjure the mood of the cosmos with the clavioline, a Hawaiian guitar, a rinky-dink piano, and then-futuristic electronic noises and sound effects. Listening today, the largely instrumental work sounds futuristic in a very dated way, especially the Chipmunks-like, electronically sped-up voices that were meant to simulate those little green men. As Monty Python's Flying Circus would say, it all sounds a bit silly, but it's an interesting insight into his unique production techniques — the sounds he sculpted for "Magnetic Field," for instance, are a clear forerunner of the electronic pulses that open and close "Telstar." Only four tracks from the opus were released at the time, on a super-rare EP; 30 years later, the RPM CD I Hear a New World presented the full work to the public for the first time. The 2001 RPM "Special Edition" release of I Hear a New World adds a 35-minute spoken monologue from 1962 in which Meek talks about his life, career, recording equipment, and production/working methods. The fidelity is hissy and scratchy (although quite comprehensible) and it gets dull as Meek takes a detailed tour of his studio sans visuals, but if you're enough of a Meek fan to seek out I Hear a New World in the first place, it's likely you'll find this a significant bonus. There's also an enhanced CD track with a three-minute 1964 TV interview clip of Meek, though it's playable only on PCs, not Macs.