{"product_id":"bruce-russell-noel-meek-classical-music-lp","title":"Bruce Russell \u0026 Noel Meek – Classical Music [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"You know that old phrase, “Teach a penguin to cuss, and you’ll never have to buy another comedy record?” I’m sure you do. But what about its codicil? “Teach a guitarist to play synth, and you’ll never have to buy a new age record?” If you know that one, you might well be put off by the fact  this album features one of New Zealand’s most wickedly post-tongue guitar players fiddling about with oscillators and analog synths (in concert with a guy who does this stuff\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eall the time)\u003c\/i\u003e. But you need not fear. The only New Age being brunted about here is the same one Fahey disemboweled back in ’97. An ornery cuss, it has lived in the cracks some-damn-place, only re-emerging now that it has been called forth by Bruce and Noel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuch of the sound on\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClassical Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(how Fahey would have loved everything about this record!) makes me think of Chris Marker’s classic fim,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Jetée.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAs you certainly recall, the central motif in that film is the main quay at Aéroport de Paris-Orly, where visitors gather to watch the jets land and take off (just as I did at New York’s Idlewild Airport when I was a kid). Well, particularly on the second side, this record is a jolt of aural\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edéjà vu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efor me. If I close my eyes I can almost see a parade of 707s and DC-8s careening around the flats of Long Island, missing collisions by what seem like a series of miracles to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMr. Russell’s last LP for us was 2016’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHowling and Instability at High Volume Settings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(FTR219), and it is a sheer pleasure to realize how unstable he can be on instruments besides the guitar.  Mr. Meek is wildly successful at this as well, and the combination is as bracing as an early morning slap of Old Spice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStep up for blast of classical music style reality today. You’ll be oh-so-glad you did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Byron Coley, 2018\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeeding Tube, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692078141681,"sku":"FTR405","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/products\/russellmeek_classicalmusic.jpg?v=1653633926","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/bruce-russell-noel-meek-classical-music-lp","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}