why we love this
Hazy recollections of strobe lights in fog-filled rooms serve as film sets for a night owl’s dreams. A disarmed darkness lets the imagination run free.
about the record
Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians including Jon Anderson, Rainer Guth, Gary McFeat and Rod Owen gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore ‘Picture Music’. To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would be produced to give to potential clients and or sold to local stores.
If there is a red thread running through the Picture Music album, it is its "late night" ambience. The wrath of the sub-tropical summer heat of Brisbane is not kind on electronic equipment, which would crash regularly by day. So, all recording was done in the relative cool of the late evening, in a room only dimly lit by lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party all through the night, departing around sunrise. They would sleep through the heat of the day, only to return in the evening for more of the same.
This 2021 reissue of their self-titled 1987 cassette was taken from the original master tapes and remains an evocative representation of the music that resulted from the late-night, dimly-lit, atmospheric-enabled environment, that sparked the creativity of a group of like-minded friends in a tiny corner of Brisbane. Dedicated to the memory of Rainer Guth.
- 1 - Bus Stop Dawn 3:01
- 2 - Haupt Bahnhof 3:43
- 3 - What It Is 4:30
- 4 - Hole In The Wall 4:31
- 5 - Dummy's Run 5:12
- 6 - Ivory Coast 6:53
- 7 - Bhopal 6:33
- 8 - Landscape 5:59
- 9 - Pillow Music 4:57
- 10 - Aviation For Beginners 6:55
- 11 - Yesterdays 5:03
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- 1 - Bus Stop Dawn 3:01
- 2 - Haupt Bahnhof 3:43
- 3 - What It Is 4:30
- 4 - Hole In The Wall 4:31
- 5 - Dummy's Run 5:12
- 6 - Ivory Coast 6:53
- 7 - Bhopal 6:33
- 8 - Landscape 5:59
- 9 - Pillow Music 4:57
- 10 - Aviation For Beginners 6:55
- 11 - Yesterdays 5:03
why we love this
Hazy recollections of strobe lights in fog-filled rooms serve as film sets for a night owl’s dreams. A disarmed darkness lets the imagination run free.
about the record
Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians including Jon Anderson, Rainer Guth, Gary McFeat and Rod Owen gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore ‘Picture Music’. To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would be produced to give to potential clients and or sold to local stores.
If there is a red thread running through the Picture Music album, it is its "late night" ambience. The wrath of the sub-tropical summer heat of Brisbane is not kind on electronic equipment, which would crash regularly by day. So, all recording was done in the relative cool of the late evening, in a room only dimly lit by lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party all through the night, departing around sunrise. They would sleep through the heat of the day, only to return in the evening for more of the same.
This 2021 reissue of their self-titled 1987 cassette was taken from the original master tapes and remains an evocative representation of the music that resulted from the late-night, dimly-lit, atmospheric-enabled environment, that sparked the creativity of a group of like-minded friends in a tiny corner of Brisbane. Dedicated to the memory of Rainer Guth.
