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Cassette + Digital Album
Pro-dubbed cassette version of The Exploding Meet's finale to '92! Committed here to Recording The Master's FOX magnetic tape for the most discerning of listeners.
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The Exploding Meet was formed in the autumn of 1983 as a songwriting workshop and experimental recording project. Throughout subsequent years the loose collective vastly improved production techniques and expanded early lyrical and compositional ideas.
On July 13th, 1985, The Exploding Meet performed “Inaugural Address” at Memorial Hal, U.N.B. campus and has since focused primarily on developing live performance potential. The intention is to discover WAYS of expressing thoughts and feelings in a musical language tapped at its source. The performance is the application conscious use of language, forming sentences and telling stories, avoiding rigid arrangements and formula.
Three other live shows in 1986 were logical developments within this broad framework. Recorded soundscapes and amplified environmental sounds underpinned a raw and semi-structured guitar and percussion ensemble.
In the autumn of 1986 the emphasis shifted back toward a more simple form of songwriting. Two LP’s under name “Decade of Dreams” were released over a two year period. With hindsight we believe these efforts were generally succcessful. The albums serve as good documentation of a swing back toward earlier intentions, a slight reworking of traditional rock models, without compromising originality. Archival from this and the earliest period are to be released on compact disc in 1992.
New Year’s Eve of 1988 and a performance entitled “Lola Pallooza” marked the beginning of a new quest to contact a lost spirit of the primal scream. Lola Pallooza was a quick series of landscape pieces, propelled forcefully by primitive rhythms, dark and turbulent. The same compositions were extended slightly and performed again on April 1st, 1989, at the Maritime Independent Music Festival.
From here on, without diversion, The Exploding Meet has been orientated toward live performance, and away from the more conventional styles and restrictive attitudes.
Soundscapes are assembled layer by layer, connected across a tape spanning the duration of each performance. More complex tape compositions recall the traditions of Electro-Acoustic music or Musique Concrete. The live rhythmic and melodic works are vamped, or inserted dynamically desired check points in time. The recorded soundscape program represents a journey along the time continuum. Recorded sounds and live music travel together and interact between start and finish points.
Circumstances have equipped us with standard rock instrumentation, ie : electric six string and bass guitars. However, modified tuning and a broad palate of percussion voices opens up a greater sonic range. The rhythms and harmonic structures of rock are often abandoned for the more exotic soaring dance modes of Jazz or Ju Ju music. The power and freedom of Coltrane’s classic quartet or the meditative pulses of King Sunny Ade, middle eastern modes and the spirit of expressionistic painting all provide an influential body of reference material.
Environmental sights and sounds for the weathered cities ad diverse rural landscapes of Eastern Canada offer the greatest contribution. This atmosphere furnishes a dreamscape form which the identity of the music evolves.
credits
released May 5, 2023
Mark Carmody : Drum Programming, Electric Guitar, Soundscapes
Robbie Parish : Electric Bass
John Westhaver : Percussion, Congas
Michael Doherty : Percussion, Congas, Keyboard, Soundscapes
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