Artist: Mark Jenkins & Others
Tracklist:
1) Kim Cosmik & Athena Fairchild (UK) "The Sands of Arrakis" (6.43)
Beats & loops expert meets ethereal singer and dancer for a sci-fi themed epic
2) Stephanie Sante (USA) "Cherry Blossom/Ripples In Time" (6.38)
Two picturesque synth & sequencer tracks from the atmospheric New Age composer
3) Gilda Razani (Germany) "Caves Of The Sierra De Arbres" (9.29) Guest voice: Raymond Reddington
Theremin and digital wind instrument over atmospheric modular and synth sounds
4) Lia Shapiro (USA) "Trilogy" (10.16)
Three compelling loops and beats finished in the styles of John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream around "Hyperborea", and Vangelis
5) Moonya (France) "Moonlight" (5.17)
The French genius of solo electro-pop with breathy vocals over a rhythmic synthy song
6) Ami-Bique (Japan) "Soy Milk Und Sauerkraut" (6.19)
Hardcore overdriven synths melt into an early 1970's kosmische keyboard piece
7) Fulya Celikel (Turkey) "Warriors Three" (7.26)
Characters from the legend of Thor meet on the plains of Asgard - just in time for the Twilight of the Gods
8) Machka (France) "Lifeforms" (8.20) with guest Mathias Grassow (Germany)
Drones, loops, beats, sequences, mysterious animal noises - this track has a little of everything
9) Anna-Maria Van Reusel (Germany) "The Old Gods, Laughing" (11.30) with guest Dennis Slypen of Silver Galaxy
Silver Galaxy is an unusual modular synth/guitar led improvising band, heard here plunging headlong towards an utterly crazed krautrock finale.
TRT 72 minutes
LTD 100
This is the most spectacular so far of the numbered limited run monthly CD issues.
Subtitled "Les Femmes Electroniques" the CD features a dozen electronic music guest creators from all over the world personally invited by composer and producer Mark Jenkins ("Tubular Bells for the Moog Synthesizer", "Space Dreams ReMastered & Extended"). For the first time there's an almost all-female cast from the UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany and Turkey.
