Soop #1: Songs of Other People

1. King's Highway

2. Shot of Rhythm and Blues

3. This Will Be Our Year

4. Wild Honey

5. Rain

6. Wonderful World

7. Chimes of Freedom

8. I'll Get You

9. You Just May Be the One

10. I Wish I Were Blind

11. You're So Good to Me

12. Best of Everything

Soop #1: Songs of Other People,Michael Carpenter,Big Radio Records,Pop,Pop Underground,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: A heady electronic brew!

Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop Manufacturer: Pogus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Crone Music Deep Listening Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice ASIN: B000006E6V Release Date: 1998-04-28

Tracks:

1. Alien Bog
2. Beautiful Soop

Customer Reviews:

A heady electronic brew!.......2001-01-17

This disc contains two important works in the early output of one of America's foremost pioneers of electronic music-making, Pauline Oliveros. Both works date from the time that she was director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center at Mills College, Oakland, CA. They utilise the original Buchla Box 100 series analogue synthesiser (specially created for the Center by Don Buchla) as well as a tape delay system of the composer's own devising. "Beautiful Soop" dates from 1966, while "Alien Bog" was completed the year after, in 1967. This CD (produced in 1997) marks the first time that both works have been available commercially in their entirety, making it a very important release indeed.

Both pieces here are large-scale compositions, of the kind rarely tackled by composers of electroacoustic music nowadays. Of the two, "Alien Bog" is perhaps the more accessible, although newcomers to this kind of thing may find its 33-minute length to be a little daunted. The work's title refers to the influence on its composition that Oliveros claims for the sounds that emanated from the 'frog pond' (now sadly built on!) outside the studio window while she worked on it. The sound sources are clearly electronic and highly reminiscent of those early 60's space fiction movie soundtracks. At the same time, it has a very naturalistic feel to it. Carefully structured, it builds gradually from its slow, warbling beginnings towards a complex and highly organic climax, which is followed by a short, quiet coda.

In contrast, "Beautiful Soop" is largely built upon a bed of recordings of readings of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poetry, subjected to the composer's complex tape delay system, (produce a deep reverberation and echo effect) and overlain with an electronic 'commentary' from the Buchla synthesiser. It is not much shorter than the previous work and may prove hard going for listeners not in tune with this kind of music. The fragments of nonsense rhymes bounce and echo most disconcertingly around the composition's sound stage, mixing and blending with one another and with the contrasting electronic textures, to form a very heady soup indeed!

As with much of this composer's output, there is no easy listening here (although it is not without its smattering of humour, either). Overall, this disc is an essential purchase for any student of mid to late 20th century electronic music, as well as for anyone else with an adventurous ear!

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Soop#1 Songs of Other People Manufacturer: Big Radio Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9GXU Release Date: 2005-11-08

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Ugly on the Inside Descanso Manufacturer: Soop Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAEP1I Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

1. Use Our Gifts
2. Mute
3. Rest Home
4. Rain
5. Heart Is a Whore
6. Weapons
7. Playground Fires
8. Emotional Atmosphere
9. Disappoinment Is on Your Shoulders
10. Self-Love Prick
11. Man Downstairs

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Maclovia Maclovia Manufacturer: Soop records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9BXK Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Hero
2. Run with Me
3. I'm Your Fault
4. Movie Star
5. Jealous of You
6. My Angel
7. For P. Thomas
8. Golden Hammer
9. Stay with Me
10. Christmas Day

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Soop #1: Songs of Other People Michael Carpenter Manufacturer: Big Radio Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005NF41 Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

1. King's Highway
2. Shot of Rhythm and Blues
3. This Will Be Our Year
4. Wild Honey
5. Rain
6. Wonderful World
7. Chimes of Freedom
8. I'll Get You
9. You Just May Be the One
10. I Wish I Were Blind
11. You're So Good to Me
12. Best of Everything

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Descanso Manufacturer: Soop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGR14 Release Date: 2003-08-19

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Soop #2: Songs of Other People Michael Carpenter Manufacturer: Big Radio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I6B8GG Release Date: 2006-12-25

Album Details

Back in 2001, Michael Carpenter Released a Very Limited Album Called "Soop (Songs of Other People). His Version of Covers Album Recorded for Himself as an Artistic Exercise that Ended in a CD that Fans Gobbled Up and Promptly Went Out of Print. This Release is the Second Instalment of the Soop Series and Sees Carpenter Mining the Works of Some of the Underground Pop World's Most Stellar Talents of Recent Years, with Songs Written by David Grahame, Bobby Sutliff, Cloud 11, the Shazam and Myracle Brah to Name a Few.

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Lippsy's Hood Talez Lippsy Manufacturer: Soop Qooler Muziq ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CADEQK Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

1. Uncle Lippsy Intro
2. Hood Talez
3. U Lyin'
4. I'm Getting Married! (Interlude)
5. Come Clean
6. Stalkin' Me
7. She Creepz
8. Answering Machine (Interlude)
9. My Best Friend's Wife
10. U Ain't Pimpin' Me
11. 31 Flavorz
12. New Girl in tha Hood (Interlude)
13. She'z off It
14. High Like Venus
15. My Best Friend's Wife 2

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Sunday Drivers Descanso Manufacturer: Soop Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8MV2 Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Lucky Stars
2. Someone Else's Mess
3. Omen
4. New Room
5. Big Mouth
6. Mr. Ugly Mask
7. Lose Your Head
8. Ugly on the Inside
9. Got No Strings
10. Let You Down

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Its Crucial Manufacturer: E-Nine Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJDO2 Release Date: 2005-02-22

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