EQUAL LOCAL "Madagascar", EP, (AUS, 1981)

EQUAL LOCAL -Madagascar, EP, 1981

three synth-jazz-lounge-exotic-noir themes are searching for movie...

C.W. VRTACEK "Learning to be silent" (US,1986)

Member of bands like FOREVER EINSTEIN, BIOTA, and collaborator of Cutler, Didkovsky, DiMuzio... C.W.VRTACEK (a.k.a. Charles O` Meara) is a musician mostly related with the experimental, avant-prog field. He has released also many solo works which reveal a wide variety of styles, moods and influences.
"LEARNING TO BE SILENT" (1986, Leisure time records, Cordelia records) & "WHEN HEAVEN COMES TO TOWN" (1988, Recommended rec) are two albums that represent his acoustic, melodic side. Recorded at home with simple means and instruments (guitar, piano, sparse electronics, ambient sounds...) are a kind of meditative lo-fi new age landscape paintings, darkened by melacholic moments, invaded here and there by narrations and environmental samples.
Both albums reissued together on one cd, titled "SILENT HEAVEN" (1996, Cuneiform).
This post gives for listening the "LEARNING TO BE SILENT " LP. Tracks though, are taken from the cd reissue which is one track poorer than the original issue.

when heaven comes to town, 1988

silent heaven, cd 1996

LEARNING TO BE SILENT (46mb), 192kb

GNAC "Sevens" (UK,1999)

Compilation of 7``singles tracks and other early material from Mark Tranmer (a.k.a. GNAC). Instrumental music influenced by Durutti Column, 80`s indie acoustic works, and the atmosphere of 60`s - 70`s soundtracks for noir films or mystery tv series. Slow, minimalistic developments reflecting melancholy and appearing a sympathy for tiny nostalgic sounds and memories half sunken into the autumn fog. Quite far from new age traps, this lazy idyllic wandering has a charming pop personality and all the necessary lightness to divide the listeners to these they would join gracefully its dreamy flight and those who would drift indiferrent into a weightless loungeness.

sevens (80mb) (new link)