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Morris Pert
The Music of Stars
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Jazz, New Age, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Spica - Morris Pert, Weinberger, Joseph
2. Zavijava
3. Arich
4. Minelauva
5. Vindemiatrix
6. Heze
7. Zaniah
8. Syrma
9. Khambalia

CD Details

All Artists: Morris Pert
Title: The Music of Stars
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Buckyball Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 4/22/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Jazz, New Age, Pop, Rock
Styles: Electronica, Dance Pop, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 697855002022

Synopsis

Album Description

After many recordings for other artists and composing a few symphonies, Morris released this solo record in 2001, inspired by his love of astronomy, in which he plays all the instruments including percussion, electronics and keyboards. The work as a whole attempts to convey the overall serenity of the starlit night sky. Much of Morris Pert's music is inspired by the symbolism and the mystery surrounding the culture of the ancient inhabitants of Scotland known as the Picts. He worked for 18 years as a session musician (percussionist) in the major London recording studios, having recorded with Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Brand X.

CD Reviews

Out Of This World

Robert Carlberg | Seattle | 01/11/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Pert writes of this piece, "I have been fascinated by things astronomical and cosmological since childhood, and much of my music has been inspired by this (ongoing) interest. Each of the nine pieces [here] represents one of the nine named stars in the constellation of Virgo, and sets out to create a sonic atmosphere around the listener. Use is made of radiophonic and static sound sources as well as pure white noise (all audible frequencies) filtered and treated in various ways. Bell and chime like sounds also occur frequently, (our universe is actually an extremely noisy place - only the near-vacuum of space cushions us from the natural clamour). The work as a whole, however, attempts to convey the overall serenity of the starlit night sky. Violence, semi-tamed."

This is a pretty darn good description of this album, which is less "music" in the conventional sense than it is a mixture of sound effects, explosions, bell-tones, synth chords, marimba-like sounds and some odd honking-like noises. Like the opening and closing sections of Pert's "Orinoco" (from Suntreader's debut album) or his "Chromospheres" (1975) this is pure sonic atmosphering, cutting all moorings to conventional music."