Gil Mellé Andromeda Strain Tome VI Waterbirds Percussotron Creel Pone

May 2022; due to numerous requests, and in the spirit of celebrating Creel Pone's 17th Anniversary with a bang, here is a completely revised replica edition of this time-tested title, with the original Kapp 10"/LP issue of "The Andromeda Strain" OST augmented with Melle's two other relatable issues of Jazz-Electronics from the vinyl era: "Tome VI" & "Waterbirds" across two discs (plus a short bonus track of a "Demo" of the Percusotron III!)Creel pone of one of the most legendary Early Electronic music film scores (right up there with Bebe & Louis Barron’s “Forbidden Planet”, Bernard Hermann’s “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, and Oskar Sala’s Trautonium sound design for Hitchcock’s “The Birds”) - mainly due to the scarcity & production values of the original release: a Hexagonal 10” record housed in a six-fold flap-system affixed to the cover of a metallic 12” sleeve which opens up to reveal a set of photos from the film & the liner notes. All well & good, but the attraction for me to this suite of pieces by jazz composer Gil Mellé has always been the bizarre invented electronic instrumentation (like the Percussotron III - a primitive drum machine) and lo-fi / distorted Musique Concrète techniques (the first piece alone consists of ten tape-transformed piano parts and the ambience of a bowling alley). For early 70s Hollywood film-score material, this stuff is pretty damn far out ... most of it sounds like a more free/European take on the Patrick Gleeson collabs on Herbie Hancock’s “Sextant”, other parts sound like the weird Finnish jerry-rigged electronics of Erkki Kurreniemi or even the more far-out segments on the first two Kluster records.No matter how you slice it, this is an important set; rife with sound-research oriented takes that situate it well within the Creel Pone canon. Tracklisting: The Andromeda Strain (Original Electronic Soundtrack)(Kapp Records 10" #KRS 5513, 1971) 1-01. Wildfire (2:41) 1-02. Hex (4:07) 1-03. Andromeda (2:24) 1-04. Desert Trip (4:16) 1-05. The Piedmont Elegy (2:24) 1-06. Op (2:49) 1-07. Xenogenesis (2:40) 1-08. Strobe Crystal Green (5:01) 1-09. 1971 Percussotron Demo [Bonus Track] (1:07) The Andromeda Strain (Original Electronic Soundtrack)(Kapp Records LP #KRS 5513, 1971) 1-10. Wildfire (2:42) 1-11. Hex (4:06) 1-12. Andromeda (2:24) 1-13. Desert Trip (4:16) 1-14. The Piedmont Elegy (2:24) 1-15. Op (2:50) 1-16. Xenogenesis (2:40) 1-17. Strobe Crystal Green (5:00) Tome VI (Verve Records LP #V6-8744, 1968) 2-01. Blue Quasar (15:18) 2-02. Elgin Marble (4:25) 2-03. Man With The Flashlight (11:39) 2-04. Jog Falls Spinning Song (5:56) Waterbirds (Nocturne LP #NRS 702, 1970) 2-05. Waterbirds [Pt. 1] (7:37) 2-06. Waterbirds [Pt. 2] (6:36) 2-07. Walkin' Down The Gloomy Streets...Alone...Broke...Depressed...Gonna Kill Myself Blues (5:02) 2-08. Little Big Horn (9:22) 2-09. The Love Song (1:31) 2-10. My Sweet Charlie (6:20) 2-11. Charlie Chaplin (4:12)