Thomas Hamilton, "Pieces For Kohn" [CP-001]

"A package arrived on the Reckankomplex doorstep just now (May 1st, 2005) return-addressed from a “Creel Pone” - I suppose we’ll have to leave everything else up to speculation - containing a few copies of this item here; a rather well done, albeit of dubious-legality repro of an absolute gem of a 1975 pointillist bleep-fest - the colors even come close to approximating the neons of the original Somnath-label lp artwork and the CD-R is printed very neatly! Damn i’ve got to get one of these new inkjet printers - by Mr. Thomas Hamilton, now better known as a member of Robert Ashley’s ensemble & the progenitor of various recording ensembles on the Pogus label.
Being someone enamored with all of the elements that make the LP so great - 1. private press edition, 2. musical accompainment to visual art, 3. created on a Serge Modular - I will spare the gush and let you know that this is the real deal: super dense multi-occurrence synth freakouts in varying degrees of complexity. no hokey trance-like arpeggiations, in fact no regular rhythms at all. Super mysterious and ultra-inviting, just the way it should be."
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[@fishoutofwater7743]

This album might very well be the most amazing thing I've ever experienced in my life. It is so different from anything I've heard before, so unique. Balancing between "orthodox music" and "sound design music", between calming musical moods and sounds recorded on another planet. All done on an analogue modular system in the 70's. I cannot quite describe it with words, but I love this album with every single atom of my soul. I'll remember every single timbre on this record until I'm dead

[@alphastatenyc9908]

It is exactly unlike anything that came before it, and everything since. Total masterwork!

[@richardsmith1290]

Such a beautiful record, which I would never have found, (like many others), if not for Creel Pone.
Thanks

[@DannoBoston]

Thank you so much for sharing these!

[@iangillham9647]

One a day!

[@teddydog6229]

Keith I have to say you have one of the coolest music channels on RUclips. I've discovered more electronic music in two days than I have in ten years. Btw we have a favorite person in common. I was good friends with Tod Dockstader for the last five years of his life. I had no clue he was a giant of electronic music for the first two. What Tod told me was he did soundtracks for Mr Magoo. Then his daughter Tina gave me a copy of Pond followed by Tod giving me copies of every album he'd ever recorded. Normally I'd be
gobsmacked and tongue tied around someone that influential and talented but by then I knew him as one of the funniest, most decent, and down to earth people I've ever known and I still mourn him like the close friend he was. Above all I miss sitting with him after work and drinking beers and mocking bad movies MST3K style. And a question for you - is Wendy Carlos EVER going to allow Sonic Seasons into the public domain ? That album got me into ambient music before Eno ever touched the stuff. Do you have a copy and will they let you upload it ? Thanks for the avalanche of fantastic music and I wish I'd know about your channel when Tod was still here. He'd have loved it. He liked Autechre much to my non-surprise.

[@alphastatenyc9908]

Hey there; thanks for the kind words! I did get to meet Mr. Dockstader in Arlington after being email penpals for a few years; super sweet and of course an absolute giant of Electronic Music. Not sure why Sonic Seasonings isn't widely available!

[@teddydog6229]

@@alphastatenyc9908 There’s a good chance we met. It’s unlikely you’d remember but if there was a guy at the front desk when you came in then that was me. My desk was where Tod would like to sit especially after dinner and him and a couple of the sharpest residents would sit and we’d have a great conversation almost every night and many many laughs. I expect you noticed Tod had an oblique and fractured way of speaking but we all learned how to understand him and it was clear he understood us. I’m sorry we didn’t meet. I’d have loved to just eavesdrop on your conversations. There was a documentary crew that came to see him too. I was less thrilled with them and they’ve made claims since which are either exaggerated or flat-out untrue. I suppose the trade off is ‘From the Archives’ came out of the relationship. Thanks for coming to see Tod. Meeting fellow artists was truly a tonic for him and would put him in a good mood for days. And thanks again for such a fantastic channel. I’ve learned more about experimental electronic music from it than I have since the day - on a total whim - Tod came down with a bag of his entire CD collection and said ‘Here’. As I’m sure you know that was typical Tod if anything about him can be described as typical. Please keep enlightening us !!

[@johnybaltimore3687]

very kool