Doug Randle: Songs For The New Industrial S on CD
Songs For The New Industrial S
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Light In The Attic
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2009
- Item number:
- 3266557
- UPC/EAN:
- 0826853003421
- Release date:
- 13.2.2009
"A stunning collection of new songs for and about the time we live in," billed the text on the backside of composer DougRandle's 1971 released Songs For The New Industrial State. In 2009, the same holds true. Doug was, and still is, a writer, arranger, musician, and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s. After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position at the government sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where in 1970 he recorded his very own What's Going On. Commercially released by the short-lived Kanata Records label, Songs was an introspective look at ever-dominant corporations, the cutthroat advertising world, our consumer society, decaying environment, and his own personal condition. The results crossed the epic studio creations of David Axelrod's Capitol outp...
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Isn't It A Pity
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2 Coloured Plastics
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3 One-Way Swimming
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4 Nicolston Dam
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5 Batteries Not Included
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6 Warm In The Sunshine
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7 Martin Of Her Mind
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8 Friend Of Mine
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9 Song For The Middle Aged
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10 Vive La Company
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11 Life Will Be Worth Living
