ATILLIO MINEO MAN IN SPACE WITH SOUNDS 1962 SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR COSMIC EXOTICA
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ATILLIO MINEO Conducts MAN IN SPACE WITH SOUNDS
Subliminal Sounds, 2011 Imported from Sweden LP
Recorded in 1951 but only released in conjunction with the 1962 Seattle World's Fair as the musical accompaniment to the Bubbelator, a transparent, spherical elevator that carried as many as 150 passengers, Attilio Mineo's Man In Space With Sounds remains one of the most foreboding and complex records in the cosmic exotica canon.
A dark, dissonant exploration of interstellar travel rooted in the avant-garde ethos of Cage and Stockhausen, this is music that's alien not only in its presentation but also in its orientation, fusing traditional instrumentation and sound effects to the point that one becomes indistinguishable from the other.
Electronic elements pulse, hum, and sputter their way to complete domination of Mineo's sonic palette, depicting a bleak, sterile future where mankind gives way to machinery.
The Bubbleator transported fair visitors through an overview of the future, a technological utopia where science and space travel promised solutions to all of humanity's plights. Needless to say, that future never arrived and this music (actually recorded in the early 1950s) still sounds as futuristic today as it must have back then.
The all-original compositions fall somewhere between nervous Philip Glass and 1950s sci-fi movie music, arranged with a string orchestra in a sometimes rhythmic, polyrhythmic, or merely ambient cloud of odd electronic space noises.
Despite its intended technological optimism, the music is quite heavy and menacing, and the future ultimately feels pretty scary.
Regardless, this recording proves Attilio Mineo to have been an unbelievably progressive and underappreciated composer and arranger.
Track Listing:
01. Welcome To Tomorrow 02. Gayway To Heaven 03. Soaring Science 04. Mile-A-Minute Monorail 05. Around The World 06. Century 21 07. Man In Art 08. The Queen City 09. Man Seeks The Future 10. Boeing Spacearium 11. Science Of Tomorrow 12. Space Age World's Fair
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