Polydor Import
1997
Death Of The Moon
About This Album
Born in Sweden in 1923, Rune Lindblad began his unique composing in 1953 by combining electronic music and musique concrète procedures in over 200 works, while also experimenting with woodcuts and painting and using damaged 16mm film in his composition "Optica 1 (Opus 16)." His music was reviewed in 1957 as "pure torture." The eight heavenly tortuous and industrial selections, steady-state tone poems, on this CD are: "Party (Op. 1)," which combines massive layerings of radio transmissions in many languages (" I told him, I told him, well what do you think...das Deutsches Volk...in Deutschland..." and so on) with an intense, sizzling and reverbed layer of random noise and fragments of party-time conversation, all this freely warped by sped-up and slowed-down (largely hand-manipulated) tape and reversed tape techniques, perhaps suggesting that the whole world is a party of sorts. It is difficult to imagine what sound sources were employed for "Månens Död (Death of the Moon) (Op. 2)": there are two competing horn-like/feedback resonance-like melodic lines, interrupted periodically by crashing drums that sound like slowed-down garbage can lids and something that is probably slowed-down knocks on the interior harp of a piano, and a low droning hum underscoring the whole piece.
Track List (try tracks 1,3 and 7)

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