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Subject: Re: Oddzial

From: "ClayE" <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
Date: 2010-05-02

I kinda like movement 4. It's probably as good or better than some of Eno's ambient stuff. I'm sure you have heard Satie's musique d'ameublement.

So Mike, tell us more about the lady that does the handjobs.

Clay

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> Those of you keeping apace of the music on my website may have noted a
> series of ambient tunes collected under the title of 'Oddzial'. They were
> largely made as a joke for someone who does the whole 'healing hands' thing;
> she wanted it as background music to her weird hippy nonsense. I obliged.
>
> Every piece is eactly 50 mins long, which is the length of time she takes
> for a session. Most of them took 30 mins to create, mostly being a series of
> odd-lengthed loops strung together. They are all uniformly awful.
>
> Then I saw this:
>
> http://www.yleradio1.fi/musiikki/avaruusromua/id323.shtml
>
> A Finnish radio station has run a special on them on 4th April. Do I have
> the heart to tell them?
>
> --
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
>