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Track Listings
| 1. Lixiviation |
| 2. Atari Video Games Logo |
| 3. Clean Room [ITT TV Spot] |
| 4. Almay Eclipse [TV Spot] |
| 5. Paris 1971 |
| 6. Sound of a Dream Hissing |
| 7. Atari Corporate Tag |
| 8. Pricess With Orange Feet |
| 9. Pop & Pour [Coca-Cola Logo] |
| 10. "Discover Magazine" TV Spot |
| 11. Live Buchla Concert 1975 [Live] |
| 12. Inside Story [PBS TV Spot] |
| 13. Liberator Atari [TV Spot] |
| 14. Eighth Wave |
| 15. Sound of Wetness |
| 16. Second Breath |
Editorial Reviews
The American Delia Derbyshire Of The Atari Generation With a sonic portfolio that boasts commissions for the Xenon classic pinball machine, the sounds for the Meco Star Wars theme, the Atari TV commercials and the electronic sound effects in the original Stepford Wives film (amongst many others) the mutant electronic music CV of Suzanne Ciani is proof that in a 1970s commercial world of boys toys, monopolised by a male dominated media industry, a woman's touch was the essential secret ingredient to successful sonic seduction. A classically trained musician with an MA in music composition this American Italian pianist was first introduced to the synthesizer via her connections in the art world when abstract Sculptor and collaborator Harold Paris introduced Suzanne to synthesizer designer Don Buchla who created the instrument that would come to define Ciani's synthetic sound (The Buchla Synthesiser).
Cutting her teeth providing self-initiated electronic music projects for art galleries, experimental film directors, pop record producers and proto-video nasties Suzanne soon located to New York where she quickly became the first point of call for electronic music services in both the underground experimental fields and the commercial advertising worlds alike. Counting names like Vangelis and Harald Bode amongst her close friends Suzanne and her Ciani Musica companybecame the testing ground for virtually any type of new developments in electronic and computerized music amassing an expansive vault of commercially unexposed electronic experiments which have remained untouched for over 30 years... until now.
Finders Keepers Records are happy to announce a new creative archive based relationship with Suzanne Ciani, a very unique and celebrated experimental composer in her own right, who, as one of the very few female composers in the field (Save Chicago's Laurie Spiegel, Italy's Doris Norton, and a post-op Walter Wendy Carlos) turned a hugely significant wheel behind-the-screens of many early computerised music modules throughout the 1980s dating back to her formative years studying at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Labs in the early 70s. Suzanne Ciani's detailed and academic approach to music and electronics coupled with an impeccable sense of timing and melody (and a good sense of humour) shines throughout this new collection of previously unreleased recordings. Lixiviation complies and recontextualises both secret music and commercial experiments of Suzanne Ciani made for micro-cosmic time slots and never previously documented on vinyl or CD. This is the first sneak peek of the early Ciani metal music and non-pop that later went on see her nominated for multiple Grammy awards for her later achievements which brought synthesiser music to the new age movement.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Mostly just to balance out the dim-witted 1 star review simply because he expected piano music (uh, did you see the cover photo?).
No, this is a really great collection of synthesized aural postcards.
One of the best releases so far on the wonderful B-Music / Finders Keepers labels.
No, this is a really great collection of synthesized aural postcards.
One of the best releases so far on the wonderful B-Music / Finders Keepers labels.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By djfriendly
Format:Audio CD
An important document of quite listenable early '80s sound-lab electro. The Buchla is quite a brain-grabbing synth and Ciani shows here far more than anywhere else that she's a master of her craft --and of the Buchla. The 1 star review was from someone who is a fan of Ciani's later new-age excursions --nothing wrong with that, but that's not what this is about. This collection is raw evidence of Ciani's genius. It is not "not music" --as the disappointed reviewer calls it. Lixiviation is cotton candy compared to purely conceptual electronic, eg. David Tudor, Morton Feldman. Lixiviation predates Ciani's endlessly flowing bedroom-bliss epics. It's an intellectually stimulating collection of experiments, curiosities, and sound-bytes that range from blissful to hilarious --and always brilliant.
Format:Audio CD
This is a fantastic view into the early days of Electronic Music. It also shows the "other" side of Suzanne, her talent in the technology and programming of synthesizers, a talent that very few synth players have. These are clips that are too often left behind, not made available to the public (except as backing to a commercial or show theme). As for the long pieces, I usually don't care for "space" music, but these seem to work for me (and no, I don't get stoned, and never have). For these songs, close your eyes and imaging sitting behind an early synthesizer and tweaking the knobs to make the sound evolve.
