Manafonistas

 
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„I keep coming back to Rashad Becker’s Traditional Music For A Notional Species Vol 1, again and again. It has to be my favorite of the year, hands down. Next is Interpretations On FC Judd. And I loved Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement’s The Plant With Many Faces/Folklore Venom, which I’m treating as a double album. Simon Fisher Turner’s Epic of Everest deserves mention, as does Rene Hells‘ Vanilla Call Option. I love the Wanda Group’s releases, and Mika Vainio’s Kilo ought to be somewhere in the top 100. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were great, and I still don’t understand the appeal of Factory Floor, its seems like such a dud to me.“ (Raylan Wang)

I asked them at one point – because their record was so anti-punk and different to the fashions of that era – what they were, for example, listening to in the time before the creation of their masterpiece, and they answered, nearly unisono, that they were listening to Brian Eno’s „Another Green World“ without end, on and on and on, so to speak.

Imagine you had the chance to listen to any album in history before anyone else. What album would you listen to, and who would you bring along to listen to it with?
 
For instance, Wired.co.uk would listen to Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells with Steven Hawking — a perfect blend of epic soundscapes and mind expanding conversation.
(source: www.wired.co.uk)
 
I would invite Brian Eno to listen with me to the one record, „Colossal Youth“, of the Young Marble Giants, and convince him to produce a second album of the band which would also mean to become (for the time of studio work) a fourth member of the group, playing vintage synthesizer and singing (not only background vocals) along with Allison Statton and Stuart Moxham. (M.E.)
 
„My ideal album would be Caruso’s first recording. And i’d bring him along to listen to it. Why? Because at that moment recordings were truly bleeding edge technology. And to be able to experience Enrico’s feedback on „being recorded“ and to be able to listen to himself for the first time.“ (K-Milo)