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Follow on Google News | G. W. Hill's Earth: Part One is Back in PrintOut of Print for Nearly a Year, Earth: Part One by G. W. Hill is Reissued
By: Gary Hill PR When it was first released on CD (the disc has been out of print since the fall of 2011), Scott Montgomery said this at Music Street Journal, “Part 1 is broken up into 15 short Impressions, ranging from 1:03 to 5:14. The pieces are entirely played by Gary Hill – predominantly on keyboard with sequenced electronic beats and some occasional guitar. The pace tends toward slow, almost meditative space music. But if it is meditative, it is a desolate, discomforting meditation. Not for relaxation, Earth – Part 1 forces a more existential meditation upon the immediacy of socio-ecological action. On the whole, Earth – Part 1 is more akin to electronic soundscape experiments than it is to a more traditionally composed song cycle. It sounds very much like the soundtrack to a film – and more of a Sci-Fi than terrestrially- …There is a primitive, unpolished, quality, but there is a certain charm to this homespun feel, particularly in this era of over-produced, sterile post-New Age soundscapes. The rough edges of Earth make it feel a little more in line with some of the very early electronic experimentations of the earliest Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, when these groups were very much focused on the effect of pure electronic sound. This is not exactly Musique Concrète, but it does have a sense of electronic “found-sound.” This was originally released (both the cassette version and the first CD release) under the name “Gary Hill.” Since then Hill has started using the name “G. W. Hill” for all his professional work.G. W. Hill began playing music at age 15, starting on bass guitar. In addition to performing music, Hill is a published author (The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writing of H. P. Lovecraft and Strange Realities: The Collected Short Stories of Gary Hill) and a music journalist. Earth: Part One s is currently available exclusively at createspace.com/ End
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