Carl Stone - Electronic Music From The Eighties & Nineties

Following the widely acclaimed 3LP collection, Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties, Unseen Worlds has compiled a second, 2LP collection of favorite and unreleased Carl Stone works. Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties presents the soothing, hallucinatory side of Stones slow-evolving, time-bending composition. While we cant always identify the source, we can hear that his sounds come from somewhere, and that there is a correct or complete version of them in theory; and so we can hear when they are being changed.

What drives Stones music is the flow that he draws out of those differences: the way an Indonesian gamelan morphs into a chorus built from one female vocalist over the course of Mae Yaos twenty-three minutes, the surprise emergence of a Mozart chorus out of the synths and skip-glitches of Sonali, or the slow, ambient evolution of Banteay Srey. Woo Lae Oak, issued in a single side edit for the first time, is an exception. Its samples a tremolo string and a bottle being blown across the top like a flute - are simple in the extreme.

Yet the Stone hallmark is clearly present, he locates the inherent emotional properties of the sounds the tingling anticipation of the string and the calm nobility of the wind and takes them into unexpected expressive territory.