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cat-nr: verazität: 010, release date: April 2003, ltd.-edition: 60, mp3 
`Persian Market´ is probably the most famous release of B.C.O. and it's unique in it's affinity with urban Persian traditional music. In your first listening of `Persian Market´ you will feel it under your skin. It will talk to you and remind of a musical paradise. It is a true fusion of contemplative atmosphere and eastern mysticism. | |
Eine CDR, so abwechslungsreich und einmalig, daß man sie immer wieder hören kann: Windgeräusche und schwere Schritte, darin langsam auftauchend ein vielschichtiger, nach orientalischen Blasinstrumenten klingender Drone, der sich in ein unglaubliches Stück verwandelt.. asiatische Melodien, kitschige Schnulzenmusik, orientale Weisen, sägende Rückwärtselektronik, sowas wie lustige Kinderliedchen, trancig-perkussive Drones, düstere Prozessions-Musik und schließlich indisch klingende Ton-Mandalas.. kein Stück hier ist irgendwie gewöhnlich oder vorhersagbar, hier reichen Begriffe wie ‚ambient’ oder ‚experimentell’ lange nicht mehr aus, BCO schaffen sich einen ureigenen Kosmos! Enthalten ist hier auch eine Cover-Version des Stücke „In a persian Market“ von Albert W. Ketelbey (1920). Das ganze kommt in einer schmucken Stofftasche ! BCO are still the pricewinners for uniqueness ! With this new CDR on the SUGGESTION-sublabel they dive deep into asian and oriental sounding melodies and structures, but every piece they do is different. by Stefan Knappe @ drone records In A Persian Market is one of the finest works ever from legendary sound manipulators BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, a dim, surreal, occult vision of Morocco as seen through the eyes of an opium addict. A surreal, fictional, instrumental journey through the shadowy backstreets and alleyways of a Persian Market. This album consists of sounds of the marketplace intermingling with evocative Middle Eastern-esque jazz, beautiful orchestral parts, dark ambient textures, found sounds,antique, almost cartoon-like music... But there's nothing "funny" or whimsical about this at all... this is dark, forebidding, absolutely engrossing sound/music cloaked in hashish-smoke, howling desert winds, and midnight drones. Totally stunning, amazingly beautiful, and essential for fans of superior drone/neoclassical/experimental music. Big City Orchestra is a wild romp through sound and broadcast media that isn't afraid to kick commercialism where it counts while rubbing salt in the wounds of the RIAA. This band of self proclaimed "mutant folk" artists have been around since 1979 commenting on society in a variety of musical styles. At times their music is little more than dark ambient, built with ominous sounds and eerie atmospheres. But, there are times when Big City Orchestra overlays those tracks with samples that add vicious biting commentary. Revamping commercial moments of nostalgia, reworking The Beatles, and producing recordings of animal sounds is just a small tidbit of what Big City Orchestra has done to tweak the musical perspective of folks everywhere. Big City Orchestra should hold great appeal for just about anyone with a warped sense of humor and major distaste for today's commercial tactics and America's political state. From creeping ambient tracks to noise intermingled with amusing use of samples, Big City Orchestra's tongue in cheek humor have people gasping and giggling across the nations. by Pendugallery | ||