GRAEME MILLER & STEVE SHILL / The Moomins (LP盤)
トーベ・ヤンソン作、世界で愛されるムーミンのポーランドで製作された人形劇アニメーションの幻のサウンドトラックが、FINDERS KEEPERSから嬉しい再発!!! シンセサイザーと素朴な笛や鳴りモノで織りなす、人懐っこいメロディー感&オブスキュアな空間色彩感の飴色エレクトロニック・ヴィンテージ・ミュージック! ※こちら↓は、当時放送された参考映像です! Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds! To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans the genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project's ambitious and exotic credentials didn't tick at least one box on your musical matrix and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you've never heard. Alternatively we could just say The Moomins and, for many, things would instantly begin to make perfect sense. From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons and Impact Theatre Co-operative - armed with a Wasp synthesiser, an ocarina and a cassette of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dreamlike illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV addicts waiting for the next 5 minute fix of outernational fuzzy felt folklore. Collected here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers in close collaboration with the original composers finally bring the original homemade micro-melodies and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics, concrete tape effects, pocket percussion and domestic synths are finally ready to be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley. (finders keepers) Side A 1. The Moomins Theme 2. Travelling Theme 3. Hobgoblin's Hat 4. Leaving Moomin Valley 5. Partytime 6. Hattyfatteners Row 7. Woodland Band 8. Most Unusual Side B 1. Midwinter Rites 2. Piano Waltz 3. Creepers 4. Woodland Band Far Away 5. Comet Shadow 6. Comet Theme 7. The Moomins Theme (End) Format:LP(DLコード付き) Label:finders keepers (UK)