I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
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Artist: | Joe Meek & The Blue Men |
Release date: | 2015 |
Genre: | Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop |
Tracks: | 12 |
Duration: | 32:58 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
Details
[Edit]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.