Ceramic Hello – The Absence Of A Canary V1.1
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Tracklist
| A1 | The Diesquad | 3:54 | |
| A2 | Im / Ex | 0:22 | |
| A3 | Climatic Nouveaux | 3:56 | |
| A4 | Conversation Between Units | 0:30 | |
| A5 | Geometry | 7:24 | |
| A6 | Staticarnival | 1:17 | |
| B1 | Symphony Of Shudders | 2:17 | |
| B2 | A Grey Man | 1:55 | |
| B3 | Footsteps In The Fog | 3:55 | |
| B4 | Ringing In The Sane | 2:54 | |
| B5 | Trio | 1:13 | |
| B6 | Gestures | 3:28 | |
| B7 | Little Tune (Warlike) | 1:59 | |
| B8 | Dig That Crazy Beat | 0:37 | |
| C1 | Theatre Matrix | 4:15 | |
| C2 | A Pale View Of Hills | 4:50 | |
| C3 | A Song For Laurie | 4:32 | |
| C4 | Between Two Frequencies | 6:12 | |
| C5 | Binary | 4:31 | |
| D1 | Sampling The Blast Furnace | 4:28 | |
| D2 | Clocks | 4:45 | |
| D3 | Dark Rain | 2:06 | |
| D4 | Stadium | 7:08 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Brett Wickens
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Roger Humphreys
- Copyright © – Brett Wickens
- Copyright © – Roger Humphreys
- Designed At – MetaDesign
- Lacquer Cut At – SST Brüggemann GmbH
- Manufactured By – Eldorado Media
- Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 14151
- Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 14152
Credits
- Art Direction – Brett Wickens
- Design, Photography By [Additional] – Winston Wier
- Lacquer Cut By – K*
- Photography By [Cover Photography] – Todd Hido
- Producer – Brett Wickens (tracks: A1 to B8)
- Written-By – Humphreys* (tracks: A2, A4, A6, B2, B5, B7, B8, C1)
Notes
Side A+B: Re-release of the first LP
Side C+D: Demo sketches recorded in London, England between 1981 and 1984 for an unreleased second LP except track C1 which was the B-side of the Climatic Nouveaux 7", the only single release from the original LP.
The track "Sampling The Blast Furnace" was a track from the unrealised project "The Partnership" with Andy McCluskey of O.M.D. on vocals and also Martha Ladly. It was produced by William Orbit.
Art direction at MetaDesign.
Comes in gatefold sleeve.
This is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.
Side C+D: Demo sketches recorded in London, England between 1981 and 1984 for an unreleased second LP except track C1 which was the B-side of the Climatic Nouveaux 7", the only single release from the original LP.
The track "Sampling The Blast Furnace" was a track from the unrealised project "The Partnership" with Andy McCluskey of O.M.D. on vocals and also Martha Ladly. It was produced by William Orbit.
Art direction at MetaDesign.
Comes in gatefold sleeve.
This is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): VOD 30 LP1 A -14151- ELDORADO K SST
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): VOD 30 LP1 B -14151- ELDORADO K SST
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side C): ELDO VOD 30 LP2 A3 SST -14152-
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side D): VOD 30 LP2 B ELDORADO K SST -14152-
Other Versions (5 of 12)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| The Absence Of A Canary (LP, Album) | Mannequin Records | MANLP1 | Canada | 1981 | |||
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The Absence Of A Canary (CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered) | Noise Records (4) | NR009 | 1996 | |||
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The Absence Of A Canary V1.1 (2×LP, Album, Limited Edition) | Vinyl-on-demand | VOD 30 | 2006 | |||
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The Absence Of A Canary V1.1 (LP, Album, Reissue, Test Pressing, LP, Test Pressing) | Vinyl-on-demand | VOD 30 | 2006 | |||
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The Absence Of A Canary (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered) | Suction Records | SUCTION024 | Canada | 2012 |
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Reviews
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"Sampling The Blast Furnace" on side 4 isn't the one with Andy McCluskey (OMD) & Martha Ladly produced by William Orbit, but the original 8-track demo that both Brett Wickens & Roger Humphreys liked far more.
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A very strange concept for the album. While Wickens' songs are fantastic, Humphreys' interludes are inessential at best, but mostly annoying, disrupting the flow of the album. For my playlist I simply threw them out and added "Theatre matrix" at the end - and voila, 8 perfect minimal synth songs, a marvel to listen to.
Unfortunately very little of the additional material is up to anything, the best of them are just that - "demo sketches". Probably Brett simply didn't have time to develop them, what with his successful designer carrier. What is crazy, however, is how he didn't get around to release "Sampling the blast furnace". It's a wonderful, pioneering work and what a crime it's been released well after its time. Though maybe it's a good thing after all - it surely would've been lost in the shuffle then, but now we can marvel at this perfect beauty of synthetic creation!
Also, thank God it's the vocoder version! Checked out the McCluskey-sang one on YouTube - well, just proves the fact that Andy has an uncanny ability to crap over a song with his whiney, nasal wail at will (he'd easily challenge Bernard Sumner, if a competition of this kind could've been organised).
But overall it's a great (if flawed by unnecessary interruptions) album and a worthy reissue, deserving its place in any serious collection of early 1980s analogue electronic music. -
Edited 7 years agoSuperb melancholic and weird synth pop. "Sampling the Blast Furnace" has a great vocoder.
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