Graeme Revell – The Insect Musicians

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Label:	Musique Brut – BRU 001
Format:	Vinyl, LP
Country:	UK
Released:	1986
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Experimental

Tracklist

		Alpha
A1		Nocturne (On An Oriental Theme)
A2		The Sleeping Sickness
A3		Melancholia
A4		La Danse Des Ténèbres = Dance Of Shadows
A5		Variation On The 'Sakura' (Japanese Traditional)
		Beta
B1		Nature Morte = Still Life
B2		Balinese Twilights
B3		Phobia (An Australian Theme)
B4		Invaders Of The Heart
B5		Et Spiritus Sanctus

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – The Cartel
Published By – Copyright Control
Pressed By – Lyntone Recordings Ltd. – LYN-19376
Pressed By – Damont
Mastered At – The Town House
Mastered At – Musitech

Credits

Engineer [Mixing Engineer] – David Kenny
Liner Notes [Text], Design – G. Revell*
Performer, Producer – Graeme Revell
Photography By – Sinan Leong
Research, Layout – Brian Williams

Notes

Includes a 12-page A4 booklet about insect sounds and sampling technologies used for the recordings.
Thanks to the BBC and the British Wildlife Sounds for recordings.

Created from:
A1 - Indonesian cicada, meadow grasshopper, Death's Head hawkmoth, African cicada.
A2 - Tse tse fly, giant woodwasp, Bog Bush cricket, rufous grasshopper, wood cricket.
A3 - Gnats (courtship swarm), hawkmoth, hornet, Oakleaf miner, giant woodwasp.
A4 - Screech beetle, African cicada, field cricket, wood boring beetle, conehead grasshopper, hive bees (worker & disturbed swarm).
A5 - red wasp, Indian cicada, field cricket.
B1 - house cricket, European cicada, wood boring beetle, African cicada, hornet, queen bee (laying).
B2 - field cricket, wood cricket, Indonesian cicada, Deathwatch beetle, Death's Head hawkmoth.
B3 - drone fly, field cricket, Australian cicada, queen bee.
B4 - hive bees (disturbed), wood boring beetle, queen bee, European cicada, Death's Head hawkmoth.
B5 - hive bees, house cricket, queen bee, Oakleaf miner, worker bee.

Text and design for Musique Brut, 1986.
Made in England

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched runout): BRU-001-A W LYN-19376-2TH A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched runout): BRU-001-B¹ [1 lying] MT. DAMONT TOWNHOUSE

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Reviews

Matvey_Andreyev Mar 25, 2005
Edited 19 years ago
It's one of my favourite albums. Strange, sad and beautiful melodies over mysterious harmonic soundscapes and sometimes simple bass riffs, spiced up with sampled sounds of insects.

According to some of small bits of information from internet searches, this music was entirely composed from insect samples.. This is just a guess-work - can be true as well as wrong. If Graeme Revell himself poured some light on this.