Liverpool Sound Collage

Liverpool Sound Collage Artist: Paul McCartney
Label: Capitol
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724352881727
EAN: 0724352881727
ASIN: B00004WMZ0


Release Date: 2000-09-26

Liverpool Sound Collage


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Tracks:

  1. Plastic Beetle
  2. Peter Blake 2000
  3. Real Gone Dub Made In Manifest In The Vortex Of The Eternal Now
  4. Made Up
  5. Free Now

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  1. Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
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  3. Working Classical: Orchestral and Chamber Music by Paul McCartney
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Amazon.com

Paul McCartney's music has long been tainted by fallacious revisionism. Supposedly the Beatles' safe sentimentalist soft-pop underbelly, he's usually been portrayed as the antiseptic flip-side to John Lennon's avant-garde bad boy. It's good to remember that Paul penned "Helter Skelter," John "Julia," and that it was McCartney who was exploring the London avant-garde scene (and composing a "Revolution 9"-like sound collage for a theater project in '67) long before Lennon had even heard of Yoko Ono. Long dormant, that sensibility resurfaced in the '90s as McCartney's ambient alter-ego, the Fireman, and again in this soundtrack to artist/<I>Sgt. Pepper</I> cover designer Peter Blake's On Collage exhibition at Liverpool's Tate Gallery. Utilizing a theme of local Liverpool voices, Paul mixes the familiar (snatches of Beatles' spoken-word and musical outtakes) with the obscure (including field recordings of Liverpool art students and his favorite local chips lady), adds a dash of <I>Liverpool Oratorio</I> and some recent Cavern Club sound checks, and (with the help of Super Furry Animals keyboardist Cian Ciaran and producer/Fireman collaborator Youth) concocts five leisurely, dense aural landscapes. Though hardly the usual fodder of pop criticism, the tracks here often rise above good-natured studio wankery, especially the spare dub mix "Free Now." It's also a track that underscores the ghetto mentality of much modern pop. Once upon a time, McCartney and others felt free to infuse the mainstream with their experimentalism rather than constrain it to side projects. Whatever, this is hardly "safe" stuff. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sir Paul rocks into the ethereal (4.5 stars actually).......2006-05-22

I was more than pleasantly surprised to hear this one. Haven't heard The Fireman stuff yet, but from prior reviews, it seems to be in the same realm musically. This is experimental stuff to be sure, and not everyday listening (but then what realy is, eh?) but highlights Paul's much neglected (critically at least) avant-garde side. If you can handle drum samples and a beatbox generated rythym or two, give this a piece of a chance. Your kids will be proud of you, and think that you are cooler. Now if we can just persuade Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)and Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) to approach Sir Paul (for a one-off supergroup scenario) then we'll be all set as a species. Wishful thinking to the max!!

4 out of 5 stars Different........2006-05-21

I didn't have a clue what to expect when I picked up this album, so I wasn't suprised or dissappointed upon hearing it -extremely different, quite out there, trippy, mixed up, a sound collage definately. It's not bad -it's an interesting, intriguing listening experience- but it's far from your usual pop, rock or dance..

2 out of 5 stars The Walrus Still Is Paul.......2004-03-05

This project has nearly nonstop drumbox, preventing it from working as a soundscape (viz. "Your Favorite London Sounds" by Peter Cusack) but it has too many interruptions by voice tapes to be a good bass&drums album either. That leaves it in an uncomfortable middle ground, neither music nor sound effects, but just enough of both to ruin the other. The ring-modulated swept-filter is WAY overused, too.

This is only groundbreaking and innovative if you're not familiar with the real stuff.

5 out of 5 stars A TRIPPY, TUNEFUL JAUNT THROUGH THE STREETS OF LIVERPOOL.......2002-11-01

Those who insist Sir Paul can't write a decent tune anymore should listen to this album!

5 out of 5 stars An electroacoustic experience.......2001-12-03

Here Sir Paul use some of the aesthetics and techniques of electronic
music just playing with the sound as
material to build the form of the music.
Sure if you want to hear a chord, or
a coherent melody in the traditional
sense you 'd better avoid this but if
you want to get into a sound travel
this record will be allright for you.
Mainly I think they (McCartney, Youth, etc... ) are working with
audio computer programs intead of sound by synthesis . I wish that Paul will
put this side of his creative mind in his
pop records too .

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