The Industrial Twilight: Tom Dissevelt - "Fantasy in Orbit" [1963]

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Tom Dissevelt - "Fantasy in Orbit" [1963]

Artist: Tom Dissevelt

Title: Fantasy In Orbit: An Astronaut's Impressions While Orbiting The Earth

Genre: Experimental Electronic, Musique Concrete

Country: Netherlands

Release date: 1963

Track List:

Ignition
Atlantic
Spearhead
Zanzi
Anchor Chains
Tropicolour
Gamelan
Woomerangs
Waltzing Matilda
Pacific Dawn
Gold And Lead
Mexican Mirror
Seconds To Eternity
Re-Entry

Tom Dissevelt was a Dutch composer and jazz musician who, however, is better known for his experiments with electronic music between 1956 and 1963. His works have influenced David Bowie and the electronic music composers of the Berlin school later on. I've seen his music being tagged on last.fm as "heard from a spaceship" - but it isn't particularly similar to what is called "cosmic ambient" nowaday, and rather comparable to the early electronic/noise works of Yuri Morozov. Anyway, "Fantasy in Orbit" is clearly underrated and way ahead of its time (early 60s when electronic music scene was still in an embryonal state):

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