Some. few times at Café Marvin we bring you lost sounds from the past that some label reissues and resurrects.
This is the case of the LP of Picture Music of the year 1987 recovered from oblivion by the Australian record company Left Ear Records.
self-titled album Picture Music recorded in that distant year is an ambient jewel with Balearic intentions.
Invented in a share house in South Brisbane in the mid-1980s, a small collective of well-known musicians, including Jon Anderson, Rainer Guth, Gary McFeat y Rod Owen, got together to compose film soundtracks, music for images, therefore. To this end, a ‘specification’ tape of the recordings of Picture Music to give to potential customers or sell to local stores. A different album that includes a collection of ambient, minimal-jazz and experimental music.
If there is a common thread in the album Picture Music, is their “late night” vibe. The wrath of Brisbane’s subtropical summer heat is not kind to electronic equipment, which would regularly fail during the day. Therefore, all recording was done in the relative cool of the night, in a room dimly lit by a lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party throughout the night, starting at dawn. They slept through the heat of the day, only to return at night for more of the same.
Picture Music by Picture Music
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