Re: [microsound] Mesmer Variation

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Further to your query. Why don't you email Mike Harding @ Touch/Ash
> International direct. He's got a few copies of the Mesmer Variations CDs
> left (minus (some of) the lavish packaging I think...) which he's offering
> at a discount. Check out their website.

I have to give a very high recommendation for the "Mesmer Variations" 
to anyone else who still lacks it.  With this - as well as the also 
highly recommended "Antiphony," "Chiy(u)u," and "Decay" - Ash seemed 
to offer the compilation as no mere sampler of shelved tracks, 
past-sell-by alternate versions, and label tie-ins but rather as a 
coherent program of thematically related pieces, often by musicians 
working in styles beyond their usual habits (for example the odd 
appearances by Drome and Gescom on the "Mesmer" assortment or the 
hushed noisers on "Chiky(u)u").  The Ash compilations, along with Sub 
Rosa's Myths and Utopian Diaries series, stand as excellent examples 
of what a compilation can be, and set the standard high for those 
others among us (myself included) who consider releasing such things. 
I suggest some shopping in Ashland for those who have not yet had the 
pleasure.

np - Bass Communion (2nd)
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