Vinyl Album - London Philharmonic Orchestra - Sounds Astounding - Stereo Galaxy

Vinyl Album

Artist:	London Philharmonic Orchestra
Title:	Sounds Astounding
Label:	Stereo Galaxy
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	G 819
Date:	1974
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	London Philharmonic Orchestra	March Of The Synthesisers	Arr. L. Muller	Rate
A2	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Great Gate Of Kiev (From Pictures From An Exhibition)		Rate
A3	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Finale "1812" Overture	Tchaikovsky	Rate
A4	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Dance Of The Tumblers	Rimsky Korsakov	Rate
B1	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Theme From 2001 (Also Spracht Zarathustra Op. 30)	Richard Strauss	Rate
B2	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Battle Of The Planets - Mars	Wilford Holcombe	Rate
B3	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Hall Of The Mountain King (From "Peer Gynt" Suite)	Grieg	Rate
B4	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Finale 9th Symphony - Ode To Joy	Beethoven, Arr. L. Muller	Rate

Notes

A London Audio Workshop Production.

London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Douglas Gamley.

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Description: Sounds Astounding - Front Cover

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Magic Marmalade 8th Apr 2015		Just about as bonkers as you'd imagine it to be.... Recorded this today, and it is nutty. The opening March of the Synthesisers is a tune I recognised, as I was instantly transported to a funfair, Wurlitzer-style. The next three tracks are pretty straight up orchestral renderings of those titles (if there are synthesisers, I couldn't discern them... but for the Cannon shot Sound Effects in 1812). The opening of side 2 is a wild swooshing zzzzieeeeaaooooowww from right to left channels of pure synthesised notes, then a pause before Thus spoke Zarathustra (2001 theme), which again, is fairly straight forward. As are the next two... but you can detect the use of synths for colouring on these. The final track is the winner though... Beethoven's 9th symphony "Ode To Joy", but done with synthesised harpsichord sound, and taking up a fair portion of that side. It sounds exactly like it was lifted from A Clockwork Orange soundtrack (A Kraftwerk Lozenge (?)), indeed, it probably was, or the other way round. Nuts. Made me smile though.



Magic Marmalade 28th Mar 2015		This is one of those albums that I found in a charity store record bin that just grabbed me, and I just had to have (and not because of the nude lady!), but the whole thing... the kitsch SF cover, the early synthesiser orchestral music experimentation too. It's like a glimpse at tomorrow's world, people! (From 1974, that is). I've added it to my recording list, and can't wait to give it a listen.

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Linked Releases

UK - Stereo Gold Award - 1974