BRUNO SPOERRI

It has taken over four very active years for the people behind the Finders Keepers label family to finally return to what we still consider to be one of our favourite vinyl projects. The ongoing Disposable Music library subscription series is a series which pools some of the best emotive, comprehensive, previously unavailable instrumental music from the unmarked archives of experimental artists within the expanding Finders Keepers family and presents it as a series of uniformed archival vinyl discs. · Like all the most influential library music labels of the 60s, 70s and 80s the music from DiM is sourced, compiled and produced catering to the requirements of the film, television and radio industries but as the interest in thematic instrumental ‘picture music’ seeps deeper into the record collector psyche these limited multi-purpose discs are naturally recommended for whichever creative application you see fit. · Each disc combines two full musical programmes sourced from both vintage archives and new exclusive recordings by contemporary artists specially paired to compliment the individual musical sensibilities and mutual affection. · This time Disposable Music are proud to bring metronomic jazz made for the Swiss cheese information board; wind synth music designed for planetariums; possessed pastoral mechanical folklore sounds; primitive electric organ sci-fi music; Spaghetti Western themes for Scandinavian fashion shows; drum machine music for household appliances; unused Polish detective theme tunes; Gallic dreamscapes for graveyard dates; mouthorgan music for mutants; Eastern street music field studies, and a selection of commercially unreleased tracks that have been recycled from French and American horror soundtracks, short-run TV ads, one-off radio programmes and educational science programmes. · ‘Hommage Au Fromage’ is an early 70s conceptual jazz pop album combining dulcimers, harps, a Jew’s harp and what sounds like a tap dancer accentuated by a heavyweight back beat and the added information that it was commissioned by the national Swiss Cheese Consortium. Starting with all the traits of a moody Morricone or Bruno Nicolai giallo soundtrack and breaking into a healthy cross section of modal jazz, tape manipulation, electronic grinds, Brazilian accordion and (dare we say it) bboy breakbeats, ‘Hommage Au Fromage’ by Swiss electronic jazz pioneer Bruno Spoerri (who else?) is a record quite unlike anything else in your record collection. · The music found on Graham Massey’s ‘Hollingsville’ record was originally conceived for a twelve part radio series called ‘Welcome To Hollingsville: A World’s Fair Of The Airwaves’. The series would focus each week on a different aspect of man’s historical relationship with technology accompanied by custom-built theme tunes by Manchester’s very own electronic-envelopepusher and synthetic instrument connoisseur. In an era where technology allows and encourages anybody with a laptop computer to be an electronic musician Hollingsville goes back to basics - exercising Massey’s authentic knowledge of original analogue machines in their rawest form, triumphantly drawing comparisons with the likes of Henk Badings, Oscar Sala and Kid Balton from the pre-synth era of electric keyboards and tape manipulation. Enlisting the talents of long-running collaborator, opera singer Seaming To, Massey dons his seldom-used Massonix moniker and produces some of his best conceptual music yet which, by design, promises to withstand the tests of time and technological trend.