CULTS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE RARE LP 70S PRIVATE PRESSING RON FORBES AVANT GARDE

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Cults Percussion Ensemble ?– Cults Percussion Ensemble Label: Highland Recording Studio ?– HSOO1 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: UK Released: TRES BON ETAT qqs infimes marques très superficielles sans conséquence pour l écoute 1979 Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Classical Style: Abstract, Big Band, Contemporary Tracklist A1 Autun Carillon A2 Baia A3 My Love She's But A Lassie Yet A4 Circles A5 Percussion Suite ( 3rd Movement ) A6 The Little Dancer B1 Two Jubilee Pieces B2 Erlangen Polka B3 Dream Angus B4 Surrey WIth The Fringe On Top B5 Irish Washerwoman B6 Polymers Notes Conductor: Ron Forbes. Featuring pupils from secondary schools around the Aberdeenshire area in Scotland. very rare Scottish private press of this enchanting recording under the direction of conductor/composer/arranger Ron Forbes and featuring a young Dame Evelyn Glennie amongst other children from the Grampian region of Scotland. A schools project from the late 1970s only available from the Ensemble’s concerts, this, you may be aware, was recently reissued by Jonny Trunk on his Trunk Records label – the vinyl of which has now sold out. Here’s some words from the Trunk site about this amazing recording: I first became aware of the Cults Percussion Ensemble through a fellow Scottish vinyl archaeologist who knows I'm always on the lookout for obscure private pressings from north of the border. This one is from pretty far north, featuring a group of young female percussionists from various Aberdeenshire secondary schools, under the tutelage of music director Ron Forbes. He established the Cults Music Centre in 1972, where his protégées practiced on Saturday mornings in order to perform concerts both locally and further afield. Indeed, they were invited to perform at The School Proms at The Royal Albert Hall in 1976 (and subsequent years) and concerts around Europe in their trademark long tartan skirts. The music here is really quite unique, with a celestial swirling hypnotic quality. The blend of glockenspiels, xylophones, vibraphones, marimba and timpani drums is quite intoxicating and can recall the shimmering warmth of the desert sun one minute (“Baia”) or freezing glacial icecaps the next (“Circles”). The Ensemble perform with an effortless tightness and deftness of touch, building textured layers with recurring percussive motives which appear simultaneously dense and yet sparse, almost sounding like modern sampling. In fact, while struggling to find a musical comparison, during the pulsating introduction to "Percussion Suite" I found myself recalling "Gamma Player", a piece of soulful Detroit techno minimalism from Jeff Mills (Millsart - “Humana” EP 1995) with its rhythmic percussion layered with complex emotion. Weirdly enough, other tracks on that EP also prominently feature xylophone and tuned percussion, although obviously synthesised and programmed, a good 20 years after the CPE first recorded... The dream-like sounds of the Cults Percussion Ensemble are all the more extraordinary, considering they were made by a group of school-girls (well, one boy plays on one track). The album is also of significant historical interest, as it features the recorded debut of Scottish percussionist extraordinaire Dame Evelyn Glennie, here aged only 14. Although not all of the members went on to achieve world stardom, their performances on here are still exceptionally accomplished. After Ron Forbes retired from teaching at Cults Academy, The Cults Percussion Ensemble evolved into Grampian Schools Percussion Ensemble and then the Aberdeen City Percussion Ensemble, who continue to perform to this day using many of the same instruments Dame Glennie and her contemporaries performed on nearly 35 years ago. Hopefully, the Cults Ensemble will remain a cult no longer. (Andrew Symington, Glasgow, 2012)
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