The Kitchen-Musique Associative - Tape Jazz Planet 3 download free

The cover says "Please Use Headphones For Better Sound". I played it through speakers and it still sounded fine. The first side breaks into life with "Monder", sustained machine-like sounds over which a female voice narrates in German. The sound melts and mutates from pure factory sounds to more textural pieces with plucking sequencers, weird voices and brilliant synth sounds - this is the kind of stuff they use to effect on car adverts in this country - atmospheric pieces which suggest 'Technology' & 'Futuristic'. A "Call-To-Prayer" opens the next part - more sustained keyboards, spoken voice including some 'Astronaut' transmissions. This gradually builds into something more complex and rhythmic. The next part is again slow and atmospheric, full of tuned percussion, as well as sped-up voices and indistinct sound, all building into a solid textural wall. The next part is an Ethnic-sounding piece not unlike JAPAN crossed with, say, VASILISK - a meld of percussive sounds and Electronic noises, all building into a piece slightly too whole to be meditative, but comes close. It ends with a voice singing in a Jazz style before collapsing into silence with the crash of a gong. "Move Blue Tango" opens side two on a slow building flow of tranquil melody with a slightly "Eastern" feel. It then transforms into a warm and complex rhythm with a strong Electronic taste. I could only really compare this to JEAN MICHEL JARRE at his best, although this has overall a more interesting sound to it. This concludes on a loop of female backing vocalists (SAM COOKE GIRLS?). "Overland Rotations" sounds like one of the more interesting LEWIS AND GILBERT tracks before transmuting into a echoed Electronic rhythm, bassy and flowing, like a half-concealed threat. This gives way to a more complex, almost indistinct pattern which effuses to it's conclusion. "Some Other Places" concludes the tape - at first fragments of voice and sound, but then settling down into a warm sub-Disco style, almost faceless, if not for the 'found' sounds that slip into the mix now and again. This ends on human voice and slightly off-key guitar. The cover has a list of people whose voices are heard on this tape - these include NEIL ARMSTRONG, FRANK ZAPPA, ALBERT SCHWEITZER, MONTE CAZAZZA to name but a few. It's a surprisingly good cassette, well put together - when you consider that much of the stuff must have been added out of sync, it probably qualifies as a classic. Calling themselves THE KITCHEN nnkes then sound like some mundane Pop Band, but these are anything but that! Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.