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01. BASIL KIRCHIN - Bye Bye 1941
02. BASIL KIRCHIN - Concept Suite feat. The Atonals "Secret Conversations Between Instruments"
03. BASIL KIRCHIN - Tzuris Oy Vey
04. BASIL KIRCHIN - Amundo
05. BASIL KIRCHIN - The Dice Is Cast
06. BASIL KIRCHIN - We Don't Care
07. BASIL KIRCHIN - Rise And Revolt
08. BASIL KIRCHIN - E+Me
ARTIST
TITLE
Particles
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
JBH 021CD JBH 021CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/10/2007

For the last five years Trunk Records have been issuing the great, lost work of pioneering British composer Basil Kirchin. Here is his last album, completed only a couple of weeks before he passed away in late 2005. It proves that Kirchin, even in his mid-'70s, was still very much an experimentalist at the top of his odd game. Kirchin invented ambient music and set the template to which much of today's avant garde music sounds like. Highlights of Particles are many -- "The Atonals" for example, was made using conversations between musicians that Basil had secretly recorded over the years. These conversations were then processed into music and the results are quite startling. In fact, the whole album is brimming and bursting with odd ideas, new ways and the unique Kirchin sound. The current Trunk favorite is the last, epic ten-minute hypnotic monster simply called "E+Me." It's an obvious homage to his dear wife Esther, who actually sings at the end of this heavily rhythmic, modal tune. Tragically, Esther died a week before this last Kirchin CD was pressed. Particles adds further fuel to the glowing Kirchin legend, and increases his standing up there with all the other groovy weirdos of the world.