Round and Round

This might be the most Ghost Box-esque library music track in my collection.

Mix: l'arbre qui pleure

A novemberish mix for your february listening pleasures in frosty leafless forests.
Download here or listen on Mixcloud.
Cover star: Mariza Koch

L'arbre qui pleure - Dispokino Mix February 2015 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

1. Franco Potenza - Keola
2. Georges Auric - O Willow Waly
3. G. Ferroni - Altri Tempi
4. Savia Andina - Incallacta
5. Roberto Lanieri - Two Views of the Amazon
6. Mariza Koch - Δώδεκα Μήνες Στο Στρατό
7. Gerhard Trede - Montage No. 22
8. Ahmed Malek - Silence des Cendres
9. Walter Lietha - Märli
10. Bernard Szajner - Superficial Music 3
11. The Poppy Family - You Took My Moonlight
12. E. Allen, F.Reidy - Bygones
13. Marie Laforet - l'arbre qui pleure
14. Jean-Pierre Mirouz - Tandoori Dance

Animals And Children Volume 3

Alec Gould / James Harpham / Paul Lewis ‎– Animals And Children Volume 3

Studio G, 1976

My favorite track from this nice British library record is this recorders-metallophones-drum machine-combination, Puppet Show by James Harpham: 

song bird

Here's  99 seconds of some of my favorite library music:
Song Bird by Eric Allen from "Happy Times" on Parry Music (PML 31), 1980.

The illustration is from "The Family Naturalist" by Michael Chinery (great book and a childhood favorite of mine).

Mix: Lasst uns auf die Reise gehn

It's vacation time!

N. and I are flying to North America. We'll take a road trip from New York to Montreal.

Let us know if you know of anything we shouldn't miss on the way.

Meanwhile here's a mix for you. Listen on Mixcloud or grab it here to listen on your mobile device while on vacation.

Lasst uns auf die Reise gehn - Dispokino mix July 2012 

These are the intercontinental goodies, from French and German library, via several Swiss oddities, Jazz from Québec and Poland, Italian xian folk, to American soundtracks, theater music and electronic music pioneers.

Patrice Sciortino - Speleolien
Tanto Pressanto - Motto per Toto
Franz Hohler (feat. Bruno Spoerri) - Es cheibe Meitli
Davie Allan and the Arrows - The Chase
Michel Bühler - J'irai cracher sur vos bombes
Johan Franco - The Tempest
Thomas Wiehe and Turid Lundqvist - Shri Rama
Claude Léveillée / André Gagnon - Baie des Sables
Jean-Paul Liardet - Modal
Michal Urbaniok Group - Inactin
Peter Thomas - Evening Air C
Clover - Mr. Moon
Elfi Zimmer - L'espoir cassé
Witthüser & Westrupp - Laßt uns auf die Reise gehn
Dominique André - On The Way To The Jungle
Domenico Machetta - Pastori
Orchestra of the Broadcasting company of Democratic Kampuchea - Song Of The Boatmen
Susan Ciani - Lixiviation

Série vie des hommes: à la maison (Auvidis)

Auvidis made two (or more?) peculiar and probably not very practical series of 7" library records: On one side, it's sound fx and noises, on the other side, it's tiny bits of music mixed with the sounds.
I recently found most of the "Série nature" (check some of them over at Toys and Techniques) and one record from "Série vie des hommes" (life of man), "à la maison" (at home).
Please note the manual on how to extend the tiny pieces by slicing tape, mixing or overdubbing.
Here's side B:


Série vie des hommes - à la maison 

Guitare Fiction

"A nice nark" by Robert Gretch from "Guitare Fiction" on Creasound/Mondiophone is not only one of my favorite tracks from my library music collection, it is also part of a little comparative library musicology study. Please contribute: After listening to the above track, go to this post on the faboulous toys&techniques blog, and listen to the track Ben posted from "Guitares naïves" on Musique pour l'image (credited to "Jacky Scala" and "Emile Gropegne"). Don't you think the two tracks are from the same session?

The Giampiero Boneschi Group - Musical Fantasy n°3

GPB-Allemande-Guitar

GPB-Crazy-Guitar

My statistics say that you like Giampiero Boneschi - this post was the most popular post of this blog last year. So why not start the new year with two other bits from one of his records on the rather unknown "Broadway" library label, the guitar&synth-themed "Musical Fantasy n°3". "Allemande Guitar" is the outstanding track here (think of robots with baroque wigs), but I'm also a big fan of the addictive little melody and the laid back disco groove of "Crazy Guitar". Enjoy and have a good start into 2011!

Camille Sauvage - 7 Drums Concerto

Camille Sauvage (aka Eric Framond) is one of my favorites in the world of library music. For 7 Drums Concerto, he formed a dream team with Nino Nardini (aka Georges Teperino), who is credited for engineering, electronics and special fx. This is mainly audible on side B. "Knockin' Bells" is the killer track here, definitely one of my favorite library tracks ever with its loud, fx-loaden percussion, heavy synth bass, random bubbling, in-your-face-bells (inspired by Henry/Colombier?) and general exaggeration. And don't miss the Voodoo ballet ("ballet vaudou") with its odd 17/4 meter, filter-beat, howling clarinets (a Sauvage speciality) and intruding cut-up-bongodelica.

Furthermore, I have the impression that Sauvage and Nardini shared a deep passion for the lovely percussion instrument called Guiro (also very prominent in many other productions of both).

I'm not planning to frequently provide full rips here, but I made this one to fill a request of zero_ii, who posted so much quality stuff on his blog that I wanted to give something back. Check his current series of library music rips - amazing stuff, among them another one of Camille Sauvage's best records, Fantasmagories.