After
Dark
Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd were casting around for a new
concept. What
they came up with was to make an album using only household
objects - but allowing
manipulation and Musique Concrete techniques. They made
a start and then
abandoned the project. Now William Hayter and Barry Lamb - who
brought you Miniatures
2020 - have decided to give it another go, commissioning
a wide range of
artists to scour their houses for sounds and organise them into
compositions. Some
pieces work because you can recognise the sources,
others because you
can't. Many participants assemble small orchestras of objects, a
few stick to just
one thing (water or, an egg-slicer) and always the objects are
meticulously
listed. Some contributors here are well known (The Residents,
Steve Beresford,
Mark Hewins etc.) others are not, making this also a sampler of
new voices. It's
informative, left-field and a bone fide curiosity and comes in a beautifully designed and
illustrated package, with
a 32pp booklet elucidating each track, a series of great art
collages and a forward
by Nick Mason.