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Thursday, 5 July 2012

Cortex - " Souvenir / Souvenirs " - ( Grafika Airlines GRA 20) 1984



Another classic from superb Belgian label Grafika Airlines.
Basically it`s Alain Neffe, of Bene Gesserit and the Insane Music cassette label fame, with various sultry voiced female francophones, recorded from an astonishingly early 1975 to 1982.
Minimal is the word, and reminds one of the two Kluster albums from 1970/71.
A stark one tone electronic backing, fronted by  part narrated/ part sung, dialogue provided by the various girlies listed on the inlay card above.
Those Belgians sure know the meaning of the mantra: "Its not what you put in , its what you leave out".
And Cortex certainly left out a lot on this proto-Minimalist relic of a future that never happened.

DOWNLOAD the offending Cortex HERE!

4 comments:

icastico said...

Really lovin' this one. Thanks. A stellar release.

lizard johnny jewel said...

I dunno... the snippet on Korm's site sounds good, and the review of the original cassette that the CD subsumes (I'm guessing) is great... but that snippet isn't enough to get me to part with 18 euros. I've got thousands of CDs, but the days of buying based on a one or two minute sample are long gone.. burned too many times.

korm plastics said...

@lizard johnny wheel

at itunes you can hear snippets of all songs, should that be more convienent.

frans

Nick Allison said...

Quite correct Johnny Jewel.
Personally, yes I think music(and everything else) should be free, at best break even. I have a right to my beliefs. If musicians want to make money, they can always play live; that is work for it.
If the product/package is good enough,people will buy it, no matter what free downloads are available.
Also the iTunes monopoly should not be encouraged.