George
Elliott
Forehead
Movies
FOREHEAD
MOVIES is a double CD set of all instrumental
originals, taken from twenty years of solo 4-track (10
layer) recordings! Directors, dancers, and other connoisseurs
of mood & flowing ambient wordless sonic poetry will find
a lasting treasure here! Look out, Ennio M., B. Eno, a-and
that Van Dyke Parks, too!
Vol. 1
1. Advent 2:35 Real/MP3
2. Theme for a Rainy Day 2:12
3. World of Wardlomington 1:31
4. Dorothy Stratten 2:02
5. Boom Boom Boom 2:41
6. Organ 1:43
7. Welcome 2:03
8. Full Reservoir 1:05
9. Raymond Roussel 1:59 Real/MP3
10 lumps of Laetitia 2:55 Real/MP3
11. Simple Song 1:14
12. Beethoven on Horsebach 1:41
13. The Shepherd 1:43
14. Show Up 1:30
15. Six O'clock 1:51
16. L'Avventura 1:41 Real/MP3
17. Bagatelles 4:06
18. Breaker 1:35 Real/MP3
19. Monjo Mix 1:15 Real/MP3
20. John & Ringo 1:41 Real/MP3
21. Who Are Yuo 1:22
22. Wah Wah Keys 2:28
23. Silent Holy
24. Jig 1:35
25. Mrs Kisses 0:52
26. Crossfire 1:45
27. Mambo Lessons 1:33
28. Riser 3:08
29. How the West Was 1:48
30. Mandolins 1:44
31. Oriental 3:15
32. Aztecs 1:36
33. Bernard Meets Angelo 3:26
34. Tragi 2:10 |
Vol.2
1. Horns 1:28
2. Enchante 1:05
3. From Indigo to Red 1:56
4. TV 2:06
5. "33" 1:42
6. Tell Me 1:58
7. Duelling Inbreeds 1:32
8. A.D 2:14
9. Warm Worm 1:14
10. Renaissance 1:55
11. Bad Service 1:24
12. Seven 1:53
13. 3 Wishes Var 1:42
14. Keys 1:52
15. Chordrones 2:32
16. Minus 3 0.51
17. Duet 1:39
18. Fireflies Surprise 0:31
19. Latin Funky 1:23
20. Ocarinas 1:28
21. Fish Outa Water 3:02
22. Collage 1:04
23. I Hear The
24. Mr.Hot 0:49
25. Four Guitars 2:06
26. Here's to You 2:40
27. Mad Waltz 1:06
28. G.O.D.(C.H.R.I.S.T.) 3:02
29. Monologirlish 1:31
30. Casio Soundtrack 2:37
31. The guy 1:18
32. Shooting Stars 2:03
33. Tounch of Class 3:00
34. Apocalypse When 3:14
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A double CD of home four-track recordings by an artist with
no widespread reputation (even in the underground) is bound
not to pay itself back, commercially speaking. Yet such
recordings are also often a good indication that the originator
is doing things more out of a personal vision/mission than
a desire to make an impact upon the marketplace. That seems
to be the case with Forehead Movies, a collection of 68
instrumental pieces, most just a minute or two in length,
though occasionally Elliott overshoots the three-minute
mark. The performer/composer played several dozen instruments
on these cuts, which are pretty fetching snatches of melodic
wordless mood music. These often straddle the boundaries
between rock, ambient, and soundtrack music, employing a
lot of soothing textural blends with both standard pop instruments
and less common tools like melodica, mandolin, marimba,
xylophone, clavinet, kazoo, harp, flute, and found sound
insertions. Even as such lengthy kitchen sink productions
go, it's commendably diverse, though some of the songs would
stick in the memory more if they'd been fleshed out to full
ideas, and the percussion (as is often the case on home
recordings) sometimes sounds boxily synthetic. There's not
much difference between the totally unknown Elliott and
the ambient/rock crossover artists who get praised in magazines
like Wire, except that the production here is funkier and
the mood warmer and less aggressive than artists in the
field who tend to attract media attention.
-
Richie Unterberger,
AMG
EXPERT REVIEW.
