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Wind Chimes (song)
"Wind Chimes" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album ''Smiley Smile'' and their unfinished ''Smile'' project. Written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, it was inspired by wind chimes hanging outside Wilson's home and was one of the first pieces tracked for the ''Smile'' sessions. The original version of "Wind Chimes" was recorded from August to October 1966 and featured a coda that consisted of multiple overdubbed pianos played in counterpoint from each other. In July 1967, the band rerecorded the song with a significantly different arrangement for inclusion on ''Smiley Smile''. The original ''Smile'' recordings were later released on the compilations '' Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys'' (1993) and ''The Smile Sessions'' (2011). Background "Wind Chimes" was written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, although Parks was not officially credited as a co-writer when the song was first published. Brian's wife Marilyn said: "We wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley Smile
''Smiley Smile'' is the 12th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18, 1967. It reached number 9 on UK record charts, but sold poorly in the US, peaking at number 41—the band's lowest chart placement to that point. Critics and fans generally received the album and its lead single, "Heroes and Villains", with confusion and disappointment. "Good Vibrations" and "Gettin' Hungry" were also released as singles, but the former was issued a year earlier, while the latter was not credited to the band. Conceived as a simplified version of their then-forthcoming album ''Smile'', ''Smiley Smile'' contrasts significantly with its stripped-down approach and lo-fi production. Following principal songwriter Brian Wilson's declaration that most of the original ''Smile'' tapes would be abandoned, the majority of recording sessions lasted for only six weeks at his makeshift home studio using radio broadcasting equipment, a detuned piano, electronic bass, me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Vosse
Michael Vosse (May 20, 1941 – January 20, 2014) was an American journalist and A&M Records publicist. He is best known as assistant to Brian Wilson during the formation of the Beach Boys' Brother Records and the recording of the album ''Smile'' (1966–67). His work also included limited time serving as a television producer, and narrator. Background Vosse's father was a man who printed one of the first books in the United States about the drug LSD. Early in his professional life, Vosse was a television production assistant who acted as a liaison between record companies, musicians, other artists, and "the underground". In college, he was friends with David Anderle, who later became the first head of the Beach Boys' company Brother Records. According to Beach Boys biographer Steven Gaines, Vosse was also "a part-time stringer" for the journalist Jules Siegel. Association with Brian Wilson Vosse was introduced to Brian Wilson by ''Smile'' lyricist Van Dyke Parks. Beach Boys pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulvaland
''Vulvaland'' is the debut studio album by German electronica duo Mouse on Mars. It was released in 1994. Critical reception Sean Cooper of AllMusic described ''Vulvaland'' as "a wibbly, barely digital match of ambient texturology with experimental strains of techno, dub, and Krautrock." In 2015, '' Fact'' included ''Vulvaland'' on its list of "21 Essential Records from Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...'s 90s Renaissance". Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. Mouse on Mars * Jan St. Werner – composition, arrangement, production * Andi Toma – composition, arrangement, production References External links * * {{Authority control 1994 debut albums Mouse on Mars albums Too Pure albums Rough Trade Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouse On Mars
Mouse on Mars is a German electronic music duo formed in 1993 by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma. Their music is a blend of electronic genres including IDM, dub, krautrock, breakbeat and ambient, featuring heavy use of organic analog synth and cross-frequency modulation. Their music also features live instrumentation including strings, horns, drums, bass, and guitar. History St. Werner, from Cologne, and Toma, from Düsseldorf, are childhood friends who were born on the same day and in the same hospital. They both experimented with electronic music in the mid 1990s. On earlier recordings, their music was primarily krautrock, dub, techno and ambient, and did not feature vocals, but more recent recordings increasingly include vocals from featured guest artists, many of whom have toured with the duo. Their first album, '' Vulvaland'', was released in 1994 on the British record label Too Pure. Sean Cooper of ''AllMusic'' stated that it is "a wibbly, barely digital match of ambie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally. History Early 1990s: origins and UK scene The original wide-spread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when a "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno, and was considered distinct from other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Honey (Beach Boys Song)
"Wild Honey" is a song recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it was released as the lead single from their 1967 album '' Wild Honey'', with the B-side of the single being "Wind Chimes". The single peaked at number 31 in the U.S. and number 29 in the U.K. Composition In a 1992 issue of '' Goldmine'', Mike Love explained the idea for the lyrics of the song: Recording Recording for the song began on September 26, 1967 at Brian Wilson's home studio in Bel Air, California with Jim Lockert engineering the session. The song would be almost completely recorded in one day. The band would initially record organ and electric bass guitar courtesy of Bruce Johnston, percussion, tambourine and piano and following that Carl Wilson's lead vocal was overdubbed onto the basic track. The band then recorded instrumental inserts including bongos, percussion and drums, in which Dennis Wilson's bass drum was recorded in a hallway. The session then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can't Wait Too Long
"Can't Wait Too Long" (also known as "Been Way Too Long") is a song written by Brian Wilson for the American rock band the Beach Boys. The song dates from 1967, and remains unfinished by the group. In 2008, a newly recorded "Can't Wait Too Long" was released for Wilson's solo album '' That Lucky Old Sun''. Composition The Beach Boys version consists of an elaborate collection of vocal and instrumental tracks comparable to the group's earlier compositions " Good Vibrations" and " Heroes and Villains". It includes a melody line played instrumentally without sung lyrics, a bass line bearing resemblance to the ''Smile'' sessions version of " Wind Chimes", plus several sections of chorus and a vocal middle section. It was recorded throughout 1967 and 1968, well after the sessions for '' Smile'' ended. On February 11, 1980, overdubs were attempted on the original late 1960s recordings. Brian Wilson sings lead vocals. There are very few lyrics. The title phrase is sung several dozen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drumming (Reich)
''Drumming'' is a piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich, dating from 1970–1971. Reich began composition of the work after a short visit to Ghana and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the Anlo Ewe master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie. His visit was cut short after contracting malaria. Classical music critic K. Robert Schwarz describes the work as "minimalism's first masterpiece". Compositional style Phasing The piece employs Reich's trademark technique of phasing. Phasing is achieved when two players, or one player and a recording, are playing a single repeated pattern in unison, usually on the same kind of instrument. One player changes tempo slightly, while the other remains constant, and eventually the two players are one or several beats out of sync with each other. They may either stay there, or phase further, depending on the piece. Other techniques K. Robert Schwarz characterized ''Drumming'' as a "transitional" piece between Reich's early, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay, "Music as a Gradual Process", by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." To do so, his music employs the technique of phase shifting, in which a phrase is slightly altered over time, in a flow that is clearly perceptible to the listener. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on the early compositions '' It's Gonna Rain'' (1965) and '' Come Out'' (1966), and the use of simple, audible processes, as on '' Pendulum Music'' (1968) and '' Four Organs'' (1970). The 1978 recording '' Music for 18 Musicians'' would help entrench minimalism as a movement. Reich's work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wire (magazine)
''The Wire'' (or simply ''Wire'') is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982. Its website launched in 1997, and an online archive of its entire back catalog became available to subscribers in 2013. Since 1985, the magazine's annual year-in-review issue, Rewind, has named an album or release of the year based on critics' ballots. Originally, ''The Wire'' covered the British jazz scene with an emphasis on avant-garde and free jazz. It was marketed as a more adventurous alternative to its conservative competitor '' Jazz Journal'', and targeted younger readers at a time when '' Melody Maker'' had abandoned jazz coverage. In the late 1980s and 1990s, the magazine expanded its scope until it included a broad range of musical genres under the umbrella of non-mainstream or experimental music. Since then, ''The Wire''s coverage has included experimental rock, electronica, alternative hip hop, modern classical, free imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On A Holiday
"Holidays" (sometimes erroneously called "Tones") is an instrumental by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was composed by Brian Wilson for their never-finished ''Smile'' album. In 2003, it was rewritten with new lyrics by Van Dyke Parks as "On a Holiday" for the project '' Brian Wilson Presents Smile'' (2004). Recording The original Beach Boys' version of "Holidays" was recorded on September 8, 1966 at Western studio. According to historian Keith Badman, the session marked the official start of the album's sessions, although other tracks had been recorded before then. It is one of the few pieces from ''Smile'' where every section was performed as part of one whole take. In 1967, the Beach Boys recycled the piece's marimba melody for the ''Smiley Smile'' version of "Wind Chimes". These vocals were later mashed up into the version of "Holidays" that appears on '' The Smile Sessions'' (2011). Wilson's 2004 version of "Holidays" contains mostly the same arrangement, albei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Set
''TeenSet'' (originally ''The Teen Set'') was an American music and fan magazine published by Capitol Records. Beginning in 1964 as a free album insert for fans of the Beach Boys, the magazine was sold separately in 1965 and it grew in popularity. It was introduced as a vehicle to promote the Beach Boys and other Capitol artists, but in the hands of editor Judith Sims, the magazine broke new ground, rising above its fan club origin. Quickly establishing itself as the gateway to the inner circle of the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania, ''TeenSet'' parlayed this trust to introduce their readers to new artists, in the process greatly increasing the visibility of Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, Janis Joplin and the Mothers of Invention. The magazine benefited from articles by music critic Sue Cameron, London correspondent Carol Gold, psychedelic maverick Robert Shea (writing under pseudonyms), and photographs from Jim Marshall and Michael Ochs. It began as an early teen girls' ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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