Magnifico: Amore

A 'sound movie' or 'soundscape', commissioned by Bowers & Wilkins for an audio show in 2005.
"Are you sure you can create a full range ten channel (10 point zero) soundscape lasting for more than an hour, comprising many and various types of music, original and library sfx, recorded voice (and coughing) in a way that totally envelopes the listener in a very large room so that each listener has a different experience - the whole being sound-mapped to the room's acoustic so that the room itself appears to disappear?"
"Yes."
"Using 10 kW of amplification through some of our finest speakers?"
"Yes"
"But that will probably take the most complex audio recording ever attempted, making a block-buster movie soundtrack look like it was recorded on a Bon Tempi."
"Yes."
And it did.
Pity that B&W didn't follow through and commission the European tour, 5.1 remix, nightclub version, immersive version and so on...
So here, for your delight, is a 'squashed', eighteen minute stereo remix (with a few clunky edits).
PLAY IT LOUD on the best system you have.
Thanks millions to Paul Ellis and Dave Kelly, without whom etc...

Divide by Ten

Recorded this an age ago as a B side for Sunarise (with Ginny David and BVs by me, Paul Ellis and Mark Dunn) when we had about an hour of studio time left.
Ginny had a tape of the Mau Mau, so we listened and copied (of the 69 languages of Kenya, we still don't know which one this is, but I've always assumed it is Bantu Swahili).
The drums were the biggest problem, as the thousands of pounds' worth of percussion at my disposal were just so 'wrong'... a brainwave was needed:
Drum cases for the WHOOMP.
A full cutlery draw for the KRSHTCHSH.
Job done.

Bob Burgher