Jan Steele/John Cage - Voices and Instruments (1976) [Full Album, HQ]

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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.
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Jan Steele - Composer, Piano, Flute
John Cage - Composer
Stuart Jones, Fred Firth - Guitar
Kevin Edwards - Vibraphone
Phil Buckle, Arthur Rutherford, Richard Bernas - Percussion
Steve Beresford - Bass
Janet Sherbourne, Robert Wyatt, Carla Blay - Vocals
Dominic Muldowney - Viola
Martin Mayes, Richard Bernas, Janet Sherbourne - Additional Piano
Utako Ikeda - Additional Flute
Produced by Brian Eno
Engineered by Rhett Davies
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All Day
Distant Saxaphones
Rhapsody Spaniel
Experiences no. 1
Experiences no. 2
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Forever and Sunsmell
In a Landscape
OB5
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[@michellourenco2905]

I downloaded it this morning and listened to it while walking to a place where I should pay for a bill. The day has been sunny and beautiful. What a blissful experience! Thanks!

[@shawn6669]

I KNEW IT!!! I was like "Is that Robert Wyatt"? His voice is so distinctive. FWIW.

[@theflyinghawk249]

Side One (Jan Steele): 1- "One Day" 0:00 2- "Distant Saxophones" 7:20 3- "Rhapsody Spaniel" 18:11 Side Two (John Cage): 1- "Experiences No. 1" 23:25 2- "Experiences No. 2" 27:38 3- "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" 32:41 4- "Forever And Sunsmell" 35:12 5- "In A Landscape" 41:31

[@joethelionjoethelion]

Robert Wyatt always does a remarkable vocal. Lovely

[@ericbruce3123]

I always come back to this

[@jameswilliamhall6740]

The first tune sets the words of the James Joyce poem, "All day I hear the noise of waters," from Chamber Music (1907).

[@filipecunhatavares]

Supreme craftsmanship of ambiance over canvas of sound… Cage & Eno in company of so many other greats… pure gold!

[@user-os7xg9sc4g]

❤ Una Musica Fantastica ❤😊😊

[@herbbirdsfoot]

An all-time classic. Evergreen.

[@thinkforyourself2109]

I find this very soothing and meditative, and yet also vaguely disconcerting at the same time. The use of the electric guitar is similar to the melancholia produced by the traditional Japanese flute. The slight dissonance is effective: it's jarring but not much. It doesn't hit us over the head. It's subtle. And I think that's the point of it: it gives rise to multiple emotions that we normally learn to repress in quotidian reality. The minimalism here is effective, as distinct from being bombarded by multiple instruments. The effect here is to give the listener the emotional space to take in the notes and let them resonate inwardly, as in a dream. I would also draw attention to the use of repetition, which does the same. It's really a meditation. The recitation of ee cumming's poems Experiences N°2 and 'The wonderful widow of eighteen springs' also are meant to elicit this inward effect, I believe. There are parts of this that could be called nocturnes. It would be a good album to go to sleep to.

[@findlesplurb]

Excellent analysis, thank you for that. I especially appreciate the parallel you draw between the use of electric guitar here and the effects of a Japanese flute. Given Cage's fascination for Eastern musical and cultural traditions I'd say this is probably spot-on. I'm not an expert on his music at all, but it seems to me that maybe he viewed the act of creating music as being an act of meditation, and so he was interested in inducing a trance-like state in his listener, in order to make them more open to the possibility of transcendence. I could be getting it wrong. In any case I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this beautiful and strange music.

[@simonineaston]

Thanks for taking the time and trouble to put this up here. I'm a long-standing Eno / Obscure Records fan and have been looking for some of the more... err - obscure releases for ages! Nice Christmas present ;-)

[@geckorider]

Hey thanks! I'll be adding more obscure (not the record label) music here, including some stuff that I've made!! Thanks for viewing and listening, all these albums are curated by me and I take a lot of time out of my day to add music-related stuff to here.

[@JeraldMYates]

Climb higher before "burning airlines offers you so much more " !

[@shepmathe]

Bought this record when it came out. Found it at a small record store in No. CA on the way to Big Sur. Already had some Eno on the label. Similar covers so knew it would be good. I wasn't wrong. Love this. Btw I also scored a promotion poster of Patti Smith "Horses". Middle of the no where in the mountains. Talked him out of it. Thanks for this!

[@coadmiller5010]

I'm big into such diverse things as Henry Cow and Terry Riley... and the Pocket Orchestra from my hometown, Phoenix...Old friends... Sadly, mostly gone now...

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Drugs are bad, mmkay?

[@AdmiralSloth]

Nice to see a fellow Cow fan out in the wild.

[@michellourenco2905]

Descobri que gostava desse tipo de música num momento muito estressante da minha vida. Não sabia que a música podia ser medicinal. Tem sido minha "droga" há anos.

[@albertolasala7688]

Stupefacente.

[@eliadesfonseca2221]

Thank you.Total treasure.

[@coadmiller5010]

This was very influential in my forays into the quieter, more ambient forms of music I wanted to make...

[@joanagoncalo3935]

Thank you so much for sharing! I love this so much!!

[@GENS1249]

This is amazing

[@christianfliegendruck625]

what I really like: the cover looks like mine and it sounds so MINT. thanks, bro.

[@tidacouto6133]

BRILLIANT!!!!

[@geckorider]

It is really a great record :)

[@EmersonNogueria]

Coisa Boa!

[@1123thumper]

This has haunted my from first hearing it in my teens.

[@jameswilliamhall6740]

i luv yer teen times

[@jameswilliamhall6740]

crsig, it bee n a looong time my lov

[@jameswilliamhall6740]

when i put it in u 13

[@markofsaltburn]

Blue “Star Trek” aliens in gold jumpsuits relax by a lake, eating unknown fruit and laughing benignly as their children gambol with space pets. In the background, a beautiful alien girl with beehive hair plays a harp-like instrument and sings serene and intermittently beguiling abstractions as the twin-suns set on their far-off idyll. Kirk is seduced by their Acadian reverie, but Bones McCoy quickly twigs that there are darker motives at play.

[@jackfuller8071]

Fred Frith on guitar. Not 'Firth.' One of the more exciting Obscure first editions, along with the Bryars' album, The Sinking of the Titanic (including the source track of a later Tom Wait's take: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet).

[@traspapeladoslosinocentes7556]

Loving that line "the intolerable brightness of your charms" (Robert Wyatt) i wonder from which poem does it come from

[@angusheider2038]

awesome __________

[@T-qx74]

12:00

[@joaopaulooliveiracarneiro2993]

Treasure

[@robhaskins]

wow-Dominic Muldowney played viola on this!

[@vonjunzt4130]

Carla Bley, Fred Frith

[@coadmiller5010]

And I'd like to get the reissue as soon as it's done...

[@ant_19th]

Just done the complete collection of Obscure Records

[@SartorieMusicali]

Nice Work!!!

[@written12]

Very nice. I had no idea this existed. What exactly is Cage’s role in this?

[@markofsaltburn]

He brought cakes and twiddled random knobs while the engineer was enjoying a comfort break.

[@written12]

Thanks for the information. Those 1940s compositions are an interesting and, I think, enduring group of works.

[@markofsaltburn]

@Evil Robot Santa Claus 🎁 💣 💥 Thanks. Joking aside, that would actually be a very Cage-like thing to do.

[@John-rb3yv]

Wow This is cool

[@traspapeladoslosinocentes7556]

At 28:00... Who wrote this beautiful classic poem?

[@dreyescope6926]

music John Cage poem e e cummings vocal Robert Wyatt

[@sashakingcrimson187]

💿💿💿💿

[@freeradicalsmagazine2316]

18:13 Trent Reznor has listened to this

[@dbadagna]

Fred Firth → Fred Frith ?

[@radiodiffusionfrancaise1591]

the forth of frith

[@eroicawilliams3889]

the froth of filth

[@markofsaltburn]

Ferd H Rift.

[@andyoushouldfeelbad]

Definitely not the right link on Apple Music.

[@jiyujizai]

🙄🌱🌾💙

[@mattd3826]

Is this the same John Cage who composed "4:33"?

[@SamuelHulick]

Yes

[@markofsaltburn]

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[@gianx_gx]

Anybody else get godspeed vibes, except it is like lounge

[@markofsaltburn]

I can see where you’re coming from, but it’s far too engaging and unpredictable to be lounge. This is not anti-music; it’s not hypnotic, and it never lets you relax.

[@gianx_gx]

@@markofsaltburn i agree, it is too moody

[@jiyujizai]

😀💚🌱🥀

[@machida5114]

so delicious...

[@user-ni9fv7gj9y]

All Day is James Joyce.