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First Broadcast : Saturday 2nd March 2024

Running Time: 58:00

 

 

 

 
 

INTRO: Magic Moments At Twilight Time - White Cathay (1:55)

Archive track from 1987


The following material is drawn from the album "Elementalis", based on the five elements of Chinese Wu Xing philosophy, which I had the honour and pleasure of curating for the Bromtol Largesse label last April. There are plenty of notes about each individual contributing artist on the album link, so I won't repeat them all here, that would be silly...

https://bromtollargesse.bandcamp.com/album/elementalis

OVERTURE: Gabriel Pereira Spurr & Jordi Heras Fauque - Overture (1:56)

Gabriel is based in Argentina, Jordi in Spain, and they are the head honchos behind the Hamfuggi Records label, they were selected to create an overture and a finale for the album, like if it was a movie, and a very nice job they did of it too...

https://hamfuggirecords.bandcamp.com

ELEMENT 1: EARTH: The Owl - Schematic Of The Earth_s Coresv2 (15:00)

The work of Paul Priest, based in the Czech Republic, and the man behind the Owlripper Recordings label. Paul wanted to take the element of metal, but it had already been claimed by then, and when we got let down by the original taker, he'd already done earth by then. Such is life...

https://theowl.bandcamp.com

https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com

ELEMENT 2 METAL: Antoine Trauma - Metal & Glass (3:04)

This is the creation of the man who runs the Plataforma Recs label in Brazil, and the ultimate recipient of the metal job. Glass was like a free bonus element he threw in for us, nothing to do with Wu Xing at all, but pretty cool, innit...

https://plataformarecs.bandcamp.com

ELEMENT 3 WATER: Magic Bullet - A Meditation On The Hydrological Cycle (8:43)

Being here in Knott End-On-Sea, it seemed inevitable that we would draw the element of water. I mean, River Wyre to the west of the village, Morecambe Bay emptying into the Irish Sea to the north, and as Skit pointed out, it never stops raining...

https://mickmagic.bandcamp.com

ELEMENT 4 WOOD: Yann Pillas - Timberwood (5:00)

Somehow, it seemed appropriate that the man whose idea it was to use Wu Xing as a theme for the album was the man who got wood, he'd earned it. Yann runs the Camembert Électrique label in France and makes some very interesting noises himself...

https://www.camembertelectrique.com

https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com

ELEMENT 5 FIRE: Bode - Fire Shall Come (10:00)

Back to Brazil for the man to whom we gave fire, he of The Church Of Noisy Goat fame, which sounds like a strange religious sect, but is actually a label. Their Bandcamp says Vancouver, wonder if he's moved and not told me? He's only got himself to blame if he doesn't get our Christmas card this year...

https://thechurchofnoisygoat.bandcamp.com

FINALE: Gabriel Pereira Spurr & Jordi Heras Fauque - Finale (0:51)


OUTRO: Artemiy Artemiev - Journey Under The Great Wall Of China (excerpt - 6:17)

Son of the late and legendary composer, Eduard Artemiev, whose soundtrack work for many a great Russian sci fi movie; The Mirror, Stalker, Solaris; you may well be familiar with. When it came to talent, the apple didn't fall far from the tree. This is from his 1998 album, "Five Mystery Tales Of Asia"...

http://www.electroshock.ru/eng/artemiy/

 

 
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