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Art Of Dissonance*At The Stop Of A Century

Label : Salvo – SALVOSVX029 , ZTT – Element 37
Series : Salvo Audio & Vision, Chemical element Series – 37
Format :

CD,

Album

CD,

Album, Reissue

DVD,

DVD-Video, PAL

Land : United kingdom
Released :
Genre : Electronic
Fashion : Leftfield, Abstract, Modern Classical, Drum north Bass
Residuum - Music For The Eye
Part One
CD1-i The Image Of A Group* Intro 0:36
CD1-2 The Image Of A Group* Dans Le Mode D'Une Sarabande, Mais Sans Rigueur 8:07
CD1-three The Image Of A Group* The Falling Rocket 3:47
CD1-4 The Image Of A Group* A Distant Ringing Of Horns i:10
CD1-v The Image Of A Group* Bayonet 0:39
CD1-6 The Image Of A Group* Bored On A Lord's day 5:03
CD1-7 The Image Of A Group* Hummingbird 2:46
CD1-8 The Image Of A Grouping* Dans Le Fashion D'Une Chanson Populaire 0:forty
Part Ii
CD1-9 The Image Of A Group* Intro 0:37
CD1-10 The Image Of A Group* The Food Of Love two:34
CD1-eleven The Image Of A Group* Music For The I 0:41
CD1-12 The Image Of A Group* Dreaming In Colour 4:45
CD1-13 The Image Of A Grouping* Speechless Creatures 0:45
CD1-xiv The Image Of A Group* Center, Index And Thumb 2:44
CD1-xv The Image Of A Group* It's All In The Ears 2:08
CD1-xvi The Image Of A Grouping* On CD 4:36
Office Three
CD1-17 The Image Of A Group* Intro 0:15
CD1-18 The Image Of A Group* Driving Rain Plus vi:59
CD1-19 The Prototype Of A Group* The Instance For A Complete Performance 3:08
CD1-xx The Image Of A Grouping* Bluish Murder 1:23
CD1-21 The Image Of A Group* The Interrupted Serenade 1:48
CD1-22 The Paradigm Of A Grouping* Ce N'Est Pas Fini! 0:24
CD1-23 The Prototype Of A Grouping* The Reflection Of A Reflection 4:36
CD1-24 The Image Of A Group* In The Rest (Beyond The Century) 3:58
CD1-25 The Image Of A Group* Fin De Siècle ii:28
CD1-26 The Epitome Of A Group* United nations Tendre Et Triste Regret 2:37
The Production Of Claude Debussy
CD2-1 Fine art Of Dissonance* Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century) 8:02
CD2-2 Art Of Noise* Built-in On A Sunday

Co-producerHenry Jackman

4:38
CD2-3 Art Of Noise* Dreaming In Colour

Co-producerFashion Out West

viii:34
CD2-4 Art Of Dissonance* On Being Blue 5:10
CD2-5 Art Of Noise* Rapt: In The Evening Air 4:22
CD2-half dozen Art Of Racket* Metaforce

Co-producerSharktank*

3:44
CD2-vii Art Of Dissonance* The Holy Egoism Of Genius 7:56
CD2-8 Art Of Noise* La Flûte De Pan two:31
CD2-9 Art Of Noise* Out Of This World 5:17
CD2-10 Fine art Of Racket* Metaphor On The Floor

Co-producerOllie J

ii:06
CD2-eleven Fine art Of Noise* Approximate Mood Swing No.two 2:xi
CD2-12 Fine art Of Dissonance* Interruption 2:30
CD2-13 Art Of Dissonance* Dreaming (Colour Yellow)

RemixBrothers In Rhythm

3:44
CD2-14 Art Of Noise* Dreaming (Colour Green)

RemixBrothers In Rhythm

v:xix
CD2-15 Art Of Racket* Dreaming (Colour Black)

RemixBrothers In Rhythm

3:29
CD2-16 Art Of Racket* Dreaming (Colour Argent)

RemixBrothers In Rhythm

6:26
The Prototype Of A Grouping At The End Of A Century
Balance - Music For The Eye
DVD i The Image Of A Group* Born Again 4:22
DVD 2 The Image Of A Group* The Art Of Debussy 17:24
The Image Of A Group* The Art Of Debussy (Unfinished Reels)
DVD 3 Serenade Of The Dolls 4:48
DVD 4 Rain 1:04
DVD 5 Blue Murder 1:26
The Abstraction Of Claude Debussy
A Individual Audience With Art Of Noise (Live At Coexistence, 01 June 2000)
DVD 6 Fine art Of Noise* Out Of This World (Version 138)
DVD seven Art Of Dissonance* Something Is Missing
DVD 8 Fine art Of Racket* Born On A Sunday
DVD 9 Fine art Of Dissonance* Moments In Beloved
DVD 10 Art Of Noise* Rapt: In The Evening Air
DVD xi Fine art Of Noise* Metaforce
DVD 12 Art Of Noise* On Being Blue
DVD 13 Art Of Noise* The Holy Egoism Of Genius
DVD fourteen Art Of Noise* Beat Box / Close (To The Edit)
DVD 15 Fine art Of Dissonance* Peter Gunn
DVD 16 Art Of Noise* Information
DVD 17 Fine art Of Noise* Il Pleure (At The Plough Of The Century)
DVD eighteen Art Of Racket* Art Of Noise Is For…
DVD 19 Art Of Noise* La Flûte De Pan
DVD 20 Fine art Of Noise* Dreaming In Color
A Public Audition With Art Of Noise (Alive At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, 22 March 2000)
DVD 21 Art Of Noise* Out Of This Globe (Version 138)
DVD 22 Art Of Noise* Something Is Missing
DVD 23 Art Of Racket* Born On A Sun
DVD 24 Fine art Of Dissonance* Moments In Love
DVD 25 Art Of Noise* Rapt: In The Evening Air
DVD 26 Art Of Noise* Metaforce
DVD 27 Art Of Noise* On Being Blue
DVD 28 Art Of Noise* The Holy Egoism Of Genius
DVD 29 Art Of Racket* Beat Box / Shut (To The Edit)
DVD 30 Art Of Noise* Peter Gunn
DVD 31 Art Of Dissonance* Data
DVD 32 Art Of Noise* Il Pleure (At The Turn of the Century)
DVD 33 Art Of Dissonance* Fine art Of Racket Is For…
DVD 34 Art Of Noise* La Flûte De Pan
DVD 35 Art Of Racket* Dreaming In Colour
Bonus Features
DVD 36 Art Of Noise* A Sales Device
DVD 37 Fine art Of Noise* Dreaming In Colour
DVD 38 Art Of Racket* Metaforce
DVD 39 Art Of Racket* Something Is Missing
DVD twoscore Art Of Noise* Something Is Missing (Coexistence, Take 4)
DVD 41 Art Of Dissonance* La Flûte De Pan (Coexistence, Rehearsals)
  • Bass, Vocalization, KeyboardsTrevor Horn ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-15 )
  • Compiled By [Dreamed Up And Figured Out Past]Ian Peel
  • Coordinator [Product]Augusta Quiney ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 ) , Debbie Caponetta ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 )
  • PatternPhilip Marshall
  • Design [Assisted By]Oscar H. Scott*
  • Edited By [Digital Editing]Don C. Tyler ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Spencer Chrislu ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • EngineerTom Elmhirst ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 )
  • Engineer [Additional]Andy Gallimore ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 ) , Marc Lane ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Michael Perfitt ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Mike Ross* ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Paul Wright ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 ) , Richard Lowe ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 ) , Roger Dudley ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Tim Wills ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Tom Elmhirst ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Engineer [Assistant]Alex Black ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Andre Coulam ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 ) , Andy Davies ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Dan Bierton ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Dan Vickers ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Iain Roberton ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Jamie Hart ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Malook Singh Kundan ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 ) , Matt Crawford (2) ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Narrator [Speaking]John Hurt (2) ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Other [Ghosting]Charles Baudelaire ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Claude Debussy ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Rakim ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Vocals [Singing]Sally Bradshaw ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Guitar, Voice, KeyboardsLol Creme ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-15 )
  • Liner NotesIan Peel, Paul Morley
  • Mastered Past [Original Album]Ian Cooper ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Steve Marcussen* ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 )
  • Other [Metaphors], Voice, KeyboardsPaul Morley ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-15 )
  • Performer [Played, Pretended And Seduced By]Art Of Noise* ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-15 )
  • Photography Pastchrisclunn.com*
  • Piano, Orchestrated Past, Phonation, KeyboardsAnne Dudley ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-15 )
  • ProducerPaul Morley ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 ) , TCH* ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 ) , Trevor Horn ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-xv )
  • Recorded By, Computer [Protools]Tim Weidner ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Technician [Technical Assistance]Alexander Areteos ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Justin Fraser ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 )
  • Text PastPaul Bourget ( tracks: CD2-iii, DVD 20, DVD 35 )
  • Written-ByDudley*, Henry Jackman ( tracks: CD2-2, DVD 8, DVD 23 ) , Creme*, Morley*, Rakim ( tracks: CD2-v, CD2-six, CD2-x, DVD ten, DVD xi, DVD 25, DVD 26, DVD 38 ) , Horn*

Released in an viii-panel digipak with three clear trays, with a 28-pages booklet

Runway CD1-8 is incorrectly spelt on the release "Dans Le Style D'Un Chanson Populaire".

  • Barcode : 698458062925
  • Mastering SID Code (CD1, CD2 and DVD ) : IFPI LD12
  • Mould SID Code (CD1 and CD2) : IFPI 5075
  • Mould SID Code (DVD) : IFPI 5078
  • Matrix / Runout (CD1) : | SALVOSVX029/A | 077013 |
  • Matrix / Runout (CD2) : | SALVOSVX029/B | 077014 |
  • Matrix / Runout (DVD) : | SALVOSVX029/C LAYER 1 | 106047 | DVD9 |
  • Rights Society : mcps
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Edited one year ago

Hmmmm.
'Balance - Music For The Eye' has a few skilful moments, simply just as well frequently sounds like the sort of anonymous library music they play on Telly channels during technical faults. 'Bored On A Sunday' is nice, and I quite liked 'It's All In The Ears', 'On CD', and the demo of 'Dreaming In Colour'. Just so many of these tracks, 'On CD' in particular, just meander, defective the energy of what would ultimately get 'The Seduction Of Claude Debussy'. In that location'southward no club or menstruum to the affair overall. Thank God J.J. Jezcalik immune them to use the Art Of Dissonance moniker, making 'The Paradigm Of A Group' rethink what they were doing.

'The Production Of Claude Debussy' is prissy to accept as a glimpse of what might have been, and the alternating versions of 'Born On A Sunday' and 'Dreaming In Color' are good. But I call back I prefer the more common version of the 'Seduction' anthology - 'Born On A Sunday' works without Donna Lewis' more modern singing phonation, merely it'southward nice to hear it blend so well with Sally Bradshaw, and 'Dreaming In Colour' had a better outro. ('How we live... how we love...') 'Out Of This World' just works better every bit a closing track than the weak 'Break'. 'Metaphor On The Flooring' is also more jarring here.

And what of the DVD? Information technology'southward fine, I guess. Well presented, and nice to have all the visual stuff from this era documented for archival purposes, even if the picture quality is slightly inconsistent depending on the source cloth. Non exactly something yous'd desire to spend 4 hours binge watching, but works in small doses. (While I was typing this up I was watching the Shepherd'due south Bush concert - a few minutes afterward I published this 'Peter Gunn' came on and the live ring fucked it up, I'm sorry to say.)

I don't regret picking this up new for £x. It's a decent packet, and adept to hear the Seduction album in a different 'what if?' context, but definitely something for completists. Except it isn't even that complete - Ian Peel'southward sleeve notes hint at all the singles ('Born Over again', 'Dreaming', 'Data', 'Something Is Missing') that had artwork designed and were prepare to get, but weren't released when the first single, 'Metaforce', didn't fare well enough. Would've been nice to have all those on an actress disc to brand this more justifiable (maybe a couple more discs to include 'Metaforce' and 'Reduction', or maybe that's besides much?) but hey ho. The DVD menu audio does characteristic some excepts from the 'Born Again' single, and some 'Dreaming' remixes tin exist heard on the 2d CD (my favourite is the 'Silvery' mix - very reminiscent of early 70s Kraftwerk), merely it doesn't really feel like enough. If it had been up to me I would have simply done this as a half-dozen-disc volume or boxset, featuring the original 'Seduction' album and all the material that was released at the time, along with what you go here and the other unreleased bits from the annal - a truly complete collection.

As it is, this is a decent compilation of two work-in-progress drafts of an album, plus some okay alive performances from the time. You lot definitely won't like this if you hated 'Seduction' for being pretentious, and you might find it also familiar.

mjb's avatar

I honey the Fine art of Noise, but sometimes I hate them, likewise, and this is 1 of those times. The only thing that makes this release worthwhile is The Production Of Claude Debussy, a new title for the reissue of a promo-only mix of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy plus rare remixes of the anthology's showcase song, "Dreaming in Colour". I much prefer this version of the album, although the differences from the standard commercial release are subtle.

The residuum of this collection should accept been just put online for gratis. The Balance album, in item, has few redeeming qualities. I can't believe they seriously considered putting it out. It is mostly demos, very underproduced and in need of quite a bit more than editing, generally to remove Morley'southward patience-trying voiceovers and straddling of the fine line between clever and stupid. The album's all-time parts—few and far between—were retained and reworked in a much better class for The Seduction of Claude Debussy.

The live bits are no more of a must-encounter than the Visible Silence tour cloth from 1986—interesting perhaps for the most devoted fans to experience in person, but inappreciably an experience worth shelling out coin for on video.

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Edited vii years ago

Throughout the 1980s the Art of Noise were at the forefront of modern engineering, pioneering the then new concept of digital sampling, influencing a generation of musicians, sound engineers and record producers alike. By 1990 the two remaining members of the group, Anne Dudley & J.J. Jeczalik decided that their work was done when sampling had become available to the masses. As an gorging fan since September 1983, I, like a lot of others was quite sad when the news was appear only a few weeks after the release of the hit single Art Of Love and their remix compilation album The Ambient Drove.

Throughout the majority of that decade, enthusiasts like my self had to endure another two remix albums in endeavour to go on the spirit of group alive by China Records, as more and more contemporary trip the light fantastic toe artists of the time were acknowledging the group every bit their idols, making manner for a new audience to discover their music, admitting in bastardised forms. All the same Art of Dissonance themselves were busy not being Art of Noise working on other projects.

A few weeks before the third and thankfully last remix album was released, the kickoff proper Art of Noise spin-off project, or sequel, depending on i'due south point of view emerged in the grade of an album by Fine art of Silence, the brainchild of Jeczalik. It got positive praise by fans and rave reviews in the trip the light fantastic toe music press. However by early 1997 he had retired from the music manufacture catastrophe what at the time seemed similar the stop of the Art of Noise for good. Before long after we would be proved wrong when some other spin-off project began to take shape in the form of the Prototype of a Group, a collaboration with original members Dudley, Trevor Horn, Paul Morley with a new fellow member, Lol Creme of 10cc and Godley & Creme fame began working on Horn's concept album thought based around the music of the French composer Claude Debussy that would eventually cease up being released in 1999 as The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, the fifth Fine art of Dissonance and the first in a decade. The roots of that released album are included as two prototype versions on the first 2 discs of this three set.

Remainder - Music For The Eye (Disc One - CD)
This previously unreleased album is presented in its pure unadulterated form. More tranquil and less bombastic than its commercial counterpart it allows the melodic themes of Debussy room to breath, taking them in different directions to those we take been used to hearing over the concluding xv years. From a production indicate of view it is an ambitiously polished work and stands upwardly to the test of time. In many ways far ameliorate than the album we've been accustomed to with the employ of more than subtle drum & bass rhythms and tones. Throughout the sixty-ix minute duration information technology gives the listener a pleasant, refreshing feel with more prominent darker ambient moods and incorporated smoothen jazz vibes. It is a timeless archetype that never was, an album that could have easily have reached the top of the Smooth Jazz anthology charts. With its fusion of classical elements it reiterates and emphasises that all genres of music can coexist together, by breaking down musical boundaries to create something new that transcends conformist convention. Unlike The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, all of the monologues are performed past Morley equally introductions to the three parts that make up this album and make it easier to listen to the tracks individually without them sounding like they have been taken out of context. It is a shame that Balance - Music For The Center was never released in its own correct as it would take been an excellent debut for the Prototype of a Grouping. Alas this was non to be afterwards Horn decided to shelve it and start once more subsequently Jeczalik allowed them to use the Art of Noise name. The results of that material appear equally the 2d version of the anthology on disc two.

The Production Of Claude Debussy (The Producer's Cut) (Disc Two - CD)
Formerly only bachelor equally an advanced promotional re-create of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy is now commercially available for the very showtime time with four addition tracks. It is essentially the same as the released version with a few alternate mixes of certain tracks with a discretely different running order. After listening to disc one the listener is now striking with rampaging drum & bass rhythms, orchestral arrangements, Sally Bradshaw operatic vocals, John Hurt's gripping narration of the life and times of Debussy. Donna Lewis and Carol Kenyon provided vocals with raps provided by non other than Rakim. Horn co-produced a large part of the album with other producers including Henry Jackman, Mode Out West, Sharktank and Ollie J that gave information technology a contemporary dance sound of that period. The album is more curtailed than the offset version allowing the music to flow from 1 track to the adjacent past gathering momentum until it stops to breath before picking upward speed and races to the end to bow out gracefully with the final track. The boosted tracks are remixes of Dreaming mixed by Brothers In Rhythm that feel like a missed opportunity equally they were once considered to exist included every bit tracks on a follow-upward single to Metaforce.

The Paradigm Of A Group At The End Of A Century (Disc Three - DVD / PAL / Region: 0)
A potpourri of concert footage, electronic press kits, rehearsal footage, promotional videos and scratch videos that comprehend this menses of Fine art of Noise's history. A Private Audience With Art Of Noise (Live at Coexistence, 01 June 2000) and A Public Audition With Art Of Noise (Alive at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, 22 March 2000) are ii takes on the same show presented in total for the very start fourth dimension are more coherent than the previously released DVD Into Vision that kept cutting between footage from the Coachella Festival, Shepherds Bush and Wembley. The only downside is that there is no v.one environment sound on this release simply the amount of footage on this disc lone makes upwards for that.

Now after more than xv years since the release of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy; At The End Of A Century gives fans a new perspective of the music created from that period of fourth dimension, an insight to what was and could have been. It is a portal to the past of which the likes of the over-hyped Spice Girls forth with the overrated Oasis ruled the charts rather than radical innovative music that has been synonymous with the Art of Noise making them stand up out from their contemporaries and peers every bit i of the virtually influential groups in music history, ironically keeping a low profile as they went forth.

As ever with the every release in the Element series, number thirty-seven's packaging is first charge per unit. Included inside the lavish 3 disc digipak is a very well documented booklet with sleeve notes by Paul Morley and curator Ian Peel along with previously unreleased pictures.

five stars - KM Whitehouse