Paul DeMarinis - Songs Without Throats
Review by Damodar Bashyal
Paul DeMarinis' album Songs Without Throats is a unique and experimental collection of electronic music. The album features a range of sounds and techniques that showcase DeMarinis' expertise in the field of electronic music composition.
The album opens with "The Listening Room," a track that sets the tone for the rest of the album. The track features a mix of ambient sounds and electronic beats that create a dreamy and ethereal atmosphere. The album continues with tracks like "Pythagoras' Ghost," which features a mix of electronic and acoustic instruments, and "The Edison Effect," which features a haunting vocal sample.
One of the standout tracks on the album is "The Messenger," which features a pulsing electronic beat and distorted vocals. The track is both hypnotic and unsettling, showcasing DeMarinis' ability to create complex and layered compositions.
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Tracks
| Track | Duration | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| R4t | 5:25 | |
| Vocal Variety | 4:24 | |
| Kokole | 6:39 | |
| Yellow Yankee | 6:1 | |
| Mind Power | 4:7 | |
| R4T | 5:27 | |
| Eenie Meenie Chillie Beenie | 4:17 | |
| Et Tu, Klaatu | 9:27 | |
| The Lecture Of Comrade Stalin At The Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress About The Draft Concept Of The Constitution Of The Soviet Union On November 25, 1936 | 7:10 | |
| I Want You | 3:7 | |
| Novena | 6:56 | |
| If God Were Alive (And He Is) You Could Reach Him By Telephone | 7:30 | |
| Edison's Piano | 11:31 | |
| If God Were Alive (& He Is) You Could Reach Him By Telephone | 7:29 | |
| Cincinnati 1830-1850 | 8:11 | |
| The Lecture of Comrade Stalin At the Extraordinary 8th Plenary Congress | 7:6 | |
| Edison's Piano | 11:28 |
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Formats
- 2 × Vinyl
- LP
- Compilation
- Reissue
- Remastered
- Stereo
Credits
| Role | Credit |
|---|---|
| Computer | Paul DeMarinis |
| Keyboards | Paul DeMarinis |
| Synthesizer | Paul DeMarinis |
| Composed By | Paul DeMarinis |
| Guitar | Paul DeMarinis |
| Layout | Stephen O'Malley |
| Mastered By | Rashad Becker |
Notes
- Opening with a mesmerizing piece from 1978 pairing the voice and tamboura of Anne Klingensmith with letters spat out by a Speak n’ Spell to the accompaniment of the randomized melodic patterns of DeMarinis’s homebuilt electronic instrument “The Pygmy Gamelan”, the record then dispenses with the live human voice in favor of its recorded and synthetic doubles. One can follow DeMarinis’s restless probing of the possibilities of technology, from the hacked Speak n’ Spell (which gives us the austere “Et Tu, Klaatu” , another duet with Klingensmith, on bowed psaltery, in which the toy’s synthetic voice is stretched into an alien song) through to the use of digital samples manipulated with home computer technology in the early 1990s (including a remarkable collage piece that weaves a rare recording of Stalin‘s voice and bird-like electronic twittering derived from its formant – glides into a rich tapestry of samples reflective of the dictator’s musical life). In between is a rich sampling of DeMarinis’s signature work with speech melodies — usually unnoticed melodic inflections that lie within speech patterns — which he analyses and translates into synthesized musical accompaniment. These pieces draw on a wide variety of sources, which range from the hilarious to the menacing, combining elements as seemingly unlikely as Beethoven‘s piano sonatas and the sounds of ’80s synth-pop. The results are an extraordinary combination of the alien and the familiar. As DeMarinis himself characterizes his work with vocal synthesis, this is “a kind of signal that simultaneously carried and obscured meaning and ideation, even as it created a sound world totally alien in esthetic”.
- Deluxe gatefold sleeve with archival images and liners by DeMarinis; design by Stephen O’Malley. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.
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Beautiful piece.