Dockstader: Quatermass

Track Listings
1. Part One from Water Music    
2. Part Two from Water Music    
3. Part Three from Water Music    
4. Part Four from Water Music    
5. Part Five from Water Music    
6. Part Six from Water Music    
7. First Moon from Two Moons of Quatermass    
8. Second Moon from Two Moons of Quatermass    
9. Song and Lament from Quatermass    
10. Tango from Quatermass    
11. Parade from Quatermass    
12. Flight from Quatermass    
13. Second Song from Quatermass    

Editorial Reviews
The Washington Post
Strong recommendation…a highly imaginative pioneer.

Fanfare
An astounding technical and artistic success...Among the most impressive of electronic-music CDs anywhere...Highly recommended.

Album Description
Tod Dockstader’s “organized sound” has captivated, delighted, and sometimes frightened listeners for several decades. With dozens of highly enthusiastic reviews, Starkland’s two CDs have led to the recognition of Dockstader as one of the finest electronic music composers yet to appear. The Washington Post calls Dockstader “one of the giants in the field,” while Stereophile places his output “on a par with the best.”

The two CDs, each containing over 70 minutes of strikingly original music, offer significantly improved sound over the limitations of the original LPs. Dockstader carefully supervised the transfer from his original master tapes to the final digital masters. The Washington Post notes that the extraordinary sound of the CDs “at last, is equal to the remarkable sounds Dockstader has produced.”

Starkland’s first Dockstader CD presents the darkly ominous, 45-minute work many regard as his masterpiece, Quatermass, the playful Water Music, and the premiere recordings of Two Moons (spinoffs from Quatermass).

The booklets for these two CDs offer the most complete Dockstader documentation available: biographical information, notes on each piece, photos, authoritative Introductions, and additional Dockstader commentary on his early influences and tortuous studio techniques. Fanfare found the booklets “gratifyingly thorough...among the best prepared I’ve seen.”

Anyone who has an interest in electronic music should hear this powerful, classic organized sound.

Dockstader: Quatermass

Dockstader: Quatermass, Music, Tod Dockstader, Classical Artists
Dockstader: Quatermass
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • First Maya Deren, now this!
 Dockstader: Quatermass

Manufacturer: Starkland
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004YWU4
Release Date: 2000-09-28

Tracks:

  1. Part One from Water Music
  2. Part Two from Water Music
  3. Part Three from Water Music
  4. Part Four from Water Music
  5. Part Five from Water Music
  6. Part Six from Water Music
  7. First Moon from Two Moons of Quatermass
  8. Second Moon from Two Moons of Quatermass
  9. Song and Lament from Quatermass
  10. Tango from Quatermass
  11. Parade from Quatermass
  12. Flight from Quatermass
  13. Second Song from Quatermass

Album Description

Tod Dockstader's “organized sound” has captivated, delighted, and sometimes frightened listeners for several decades. With dozens of highly enthusiastic reviews, Starkland's two CDs have led to the recognition of Dockstader as one of the finest electronic music composers yet to appear. The Washington Post calls Dockstader “one of the giants in the field,” while Stereophile places his output “on a par with the best.”

The two CDs, each containing over 70 minutes of strikingly original music, offer significantly improved sound over the limitations of the original LPs. Dockstader carefully supervised the transfer from his original master tapes to the final digital masters. The Washington Post notes that the extraordinary sound of the CDs “at last, is equal to the remarkable sounds Dockstader has produced.”

Starkland's first Dockstader CD presents the darkly ominous, 45-minute work many regard as his masterpiece, Quatermass, the playful Water Music, and the premiere recordings of Two Moons (spinoffs from Quatermass).

The booklets for these two CDs offer the most complete Dockstader documentation available: biographical information, notes on each piece, photos, authoritative Introductions, and additional Dockstader commentary on his early influences and tortuous studio techniques. Fanfare found the booklets “gratifyingly thorough...among the best prepared I've seen.”

Anyone who has an interest in electronic music should hear this powerful, classic organized sound.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars First Maya Deren, now this!.......2005-09-22

I just went from one shock--finding out that the DVD collection of Maya Deren films has not gotten a single review yet--to this orphan of about the same era. If you get rid of hippies and beatniks, what's left for the 50's and 60's is a less self-promoting and more circumspect American avant-garde. Unfortunately, few know it was ever there. Hippies and Beats knew how to market and engage mass media better than they would have ever admitted.

This, and the other disc from Starkland, are spectacular collections of early experimental collage and concrete "music".
The pieces are tough to describe but there is a deep musicality to them and they don't sound like early pure electronic offerings and they aren't, by any measure, ambient. Dockstader used "real" sounds and manipulated the heck out of them. Anyone interested in modern sampling should find these fascinating (in fact this should be required listening for that set!) and a bit intimidating--it was all done with minimal multi-tracks, overdubbing, and scissors...and the results are just great and wear well over time. One almost wishes this line of musical thinking had been pursued more vigorously before the Moog and other synths kicked in. It's got a unique texture and depth to it. Really beautiful, emotional, and evocative stuff. The recordings here are first-rate.
From A to Z
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Enjoyable survey
  • Inventive
 From A to Z

Manufacturer: Starkland
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002GVD
Release Date: 1994-07-24

Tracks:

  1. Luna Park [Excerpt] - Dockstader, Tod
  2. Part Three from Apocalypse - Dockstader, Tod
  3. Tango from Quatermass - Dockstader, Tod
  4. Underground - Dresher, Paul
  5. The Rider - Kasinskas, Joseph
  6. Utamaro's Dreams [Excerpt] - Lukasik, Joseph
  7. In Tymes of Olde - Z., Pamela
  8. Obsession, Addiction and the Aristotelian Curve - Z., Pamela
  9. Vers Les Anges - Amirkhanian, Charle
  10. Garland Hirschi's Cows - Bimstein, Phillip K

Album Description

From A to Z offers ten enticing selections of compelling, engaging electroacoustic music. It's a specially priced compilation that's an excellent introduction to the Starkland label. The diverse music ranges from Tod Dockstader's powerful musique concrète to the digitally sampled bovine vocalizing in Phillip Kent Bimstein's udderly charming portrait of a Utah farmer.

The CD opens with three excerpts from Starkland's two Dockstader CDs (“Quatermass” and “Apocalypse”), both widely praised in over 25 highly positive reviews.

Bimstein's piece (from his “Garland Hirschi's Cows” Starkland CD) combines comments from both Utah farmer Garland Hirschi and his cows, in a delightfully mooving work that has triggered hundreds of calls to radio stations.

Paul Dresher's Underground (from his “Casa Vecchia” Starkland CD) uses a custom-built multi-track tape loop system that starts with a few simple synthesizer sounds and creates a lovely, layered, languidly flowing composite.

Joseph Kasinskas creates refreshingly straightforward, often ritualistic music. The Rider, for marimba, gongs and digital echo, is part of a large theater work, Demeter's Lament.

Techno whiz Joseph Lukasik syncs multiple synthesizers and samplers to create the richly atmospheric Utamaro's Dreams.

The “funny, inventive and talented” (Village Voice) Pamela Z blends extended vocal techniques and delay units with riveting, and sometimes humorous, results. This CD has her hauntingly personal In Tymes of Olde and the dark, harp-accompanied Obsession.

Charles Amirkhanian's Vers Les Anges (from his “Walking Tune” Starkland CD) merges sampled sounds, related to the extraordinary life of Nicholas Slonimsky, into a mysteriously evocative collage.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable survey.......2002-03-21

Agree with previous reviewer. I hesitate to give 5 stars, because I'm not expert in the electronic music field, but this CD is an eye-opener. Some of the composers (Kasinskas, Lukasik, Pamela Z and Bimstein) were new to me. Pamela Z really deserves more exposure: Meredith Monk-like extended vocals, electronics and a good sense of humor. I'll also put in a good word for Joseph Lukasik's rather ambient ballet music "Utamaro's Dream" (excerpt).

4 out of 5 stars Inventive.......2000-01-10

This compilation features 7 little-known, highly imaginative American composers. Phillip Kent Bimstein's "Garland Hirchi's Cows" combines comments from both the Utah farmer and his cows to create a wonderful, whimsical piece. Charles Amirkhanian uses sonic calliope, roulette wheel and chirping birds to form "Vers Les Anges." San Francisco performer Pamela Z works primarily with voice creating lush vocals textures. Using Tarzan howls, toucan squalks and MIDI controllers "In Tymes Of Old" she sings about the good old days. Paul Dresher layers loops and high-pitched sonics that cut through the dark clouds like sunbeams in "Underground." Tod Dockstader's electronic music reminds me of the "Fantastic Planet Soundtrack."

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