DECAYCAST Radio #023 – Guest Mix: “Quarantine” by Benjamin Ethan Tinker
Bay Area artistic stalwart, all around musical maestro Ben Tinker (White Pee, That Hideous Strength, The Heroic Quartet et al ) takes us on nearly three. hour psychedelic quarantine adventure through space, time, and the unknown in perhaps the most guitar heavy episode to boot, sit back (don’t relax) and strap in for a fuzz out, tripped in ride spanning art. rock, krautrock, slow warbly Sunday morning horns, piano presentations and timeless vocal exhalations, plus so much above, below, and more even betwixt and beyond.
Tracklisting:
1) Phil Manzanera – East Of Echo
2) Phil Manzanera – Largrima
3) Peter Michael Hamel – Organum Part 1
4) Popol Vuh – Im Garten der Gemeinschaft
5) Baden Powell – Marcia Meu Amor
6) Allen Ravenstine & Robert Wheeler – A Morning Mood
7) Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Das Eis bricht (excerpt)
8) Nino Rota – L’Harem
9) The Durutti Column – Without Mercy 1
10) Vladimir Cosma – Metro Police
11) Tom Verlaine – Dissolve/Reveal (Instrumental)
12) Richard Pinhas – Beautiful May
13) Swanox – Days Like Waves
14) Andy Summers and Robert Fripp – Under Bridges of Silence
15) Yello – Homer Hossa
16) Andrew Chalk & Ralf Wehowsky – Wycha
17) Tom Verlaine – Let Go The Mansion (instrumental)
18) His Name Is Alive – Echo Lake
19) His Name Is Alive – F Choir
20) Anne Clark – Poem Without Words 1 The Third Meeting
21) Marsfield – Three Sunsets Over Marsfield Pt. 2
22) Anne Clark – Silent Prayer
23) Allen Ravenstine & Robert Wheeler – Twilight With Crickets
24) Andrew Chalk – Obscure In The Valley
25) Robert Wheeler & Allen Ravenstine – Sunrise in Milan
26) Nino Rota – Cimitero & Gigoletto & Cadillac
27) Vladimir Cosma – Le curé et l’antillais
28) Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Regentropfen
29) Robert Wheeler & Allen Ravenstine – A Nocturne
30) Andrew Chalk – A World Displaced
31) Popol Vuh – Engel Der Luft
Benjamin Ethan Tinker (New York, 1969) is a multidisciplinary artist and electronic musician who has lived in San Francisco since 1996. He chooses to work primarily with analog synthesizers with which he composes electroacoustic music, and performs regularly with the improv ensemble White Pee, and his own project That Hideous Strength. In addition, he curates and writes about experimental music. He has a BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase and a MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, between those degrees was a decade of commercial audio engineering.
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