in the current issue
Rare Record Price Guide
- The world's leading authority on prices of rare and collectable records pressed in the UK.
- More Information
R.C. Partners
- Plastic Dreams
- Astral Vinyl
- Rubber Soul
- Fantastic Voyage
- Those Old Records
- Sugarbush Records
- Fine Vinyl
- RARE AND SIGNED
- Kool Kat Jazz Records
- CJ's Music Merchandise
- Rock Music Memorabilia
- Revival Records
- Love Vinyl
- NYLVI.com
- THE SOUND MACHINE
- 991.com
- Beatles Links
- Wienerworld
- VIP Record Fairs
- Austin Record Convention
- Mega Record & CD Fair
- Record Collector's Guild
- RARO
- Arrowfile
- Ace Records
- Clear Spot
- Rockground
- Heritage Auctions - Free Catalog
- Popsike.com
- System Records
- Industrial Silence
- BBC 6 Music
- GEMM
- LP CD Reissues.com
- Blue Storm Music
- GrooveCollector.com
Jason Spaceman/Iain Forsyth/Jane Pollard - Silent Sound
Consider it an investment, if nothing else
It’s been said before, but we’ll say it again: Spacemen 3’s The Perfect Prescription, from 1987, is one of the greatest albums ever produced in the UK. Following that, however, Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce started to argue, recorded album�sides separately (1990’s Recurring) and then split up. The market followed Pierce’s rather obvious gospel euphoria in Spiritualized (done brilliantly on ’97’s Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, then repeated to nullification) over the far superior avant-ambience of Boom’s Spectrum. And now…
Pierce has turned prog. Calling himself Jason Spaceman, he’s teamed up with a duo interested in Victorian spiritualism and written a piece of classical music for strings, horns, grand piano, vibes and that most prog of instruments, tubular bells. It’s basically a live document of a Liverpool performance, with Forsyth and Pollard sitting in a soundproofed box reciting a single phrase pitched above the threshold of human hearing. The music apparently carries a subliminal message, and is the quality of Eno/Obscure label circa 1975 (extremely dated and lacking in any newness). It’s pretentious prog reminiscent of Camel on the OGWT, and is even funded by the Arts Council. Being a limited edition of 1000 gives it rarity value at least.
Silent Sound | 21
Reviewed by Mark Prendergast
<< Back to Issue 334
