Video Musica No. 1

Enjoying this slightly ominous looking record at the moment. Actually it's not ominous at all, although perhaps it is a bit surprising at times. One of the things I really like about it is its combination of a futuristic title with quirky medieval sounds. It's made by a man named Enrico Cortese. Some of it sounds a bit Jan Svankmajer with its swirling organs and percussion calisthenics, like a bunch of toys come to life. But then at other times it opens out onto larger vistas of sound, as if you're looking at some awesome ruin in a foreign land. I think of this as a landscape record in the vein of Abstractions of the Industrial North or Francesco de Masi's fantastic India soundtrack. Only Cortese doesn't seem to have any worldly place in mind -- to me the record works as a kind of wordless audio tour to some imaginary future/past. I guess that's how all my favorite library records work in a way.

Oh, and T&T turns three this week! Crazy.