Electric Meadows

 

I'm afraid there aren't enough Barmy Army releases to help the German team have a completely successful performance at the 2024 European Championship. Yesterday, for the first time, I didn't post anything from On-U Sounds supergroup in the run-up to the game and it almost went wrong: the equalizer was only in the 2nd minute of stoppage time. 1:1 against Switzerland. The German team will go into the round of 16 as group winners. But whether that is an advantage remains to be seen. I suspect that the trip to the home European Championship will be over in the quarter-finals at the latest, when we face the Spaniards, who have been outstanding so far. But first you have to get there. After yesterday, that's not even so certain. Nevertheless: the European Championship with the many peacefully celebrating fans is a huge joy. 

I haven't posted any music for a few days, which will probably be the norm in the future. But of course I continue to listen to music these days, albeit less due to up to 3 games per day. 

If you discover unknown music by revered artists, where you thought you already had everything on your music shelf or on your hard drive, the excitement is usually quite great. A few days ago I re-read an interview with Lo Recordings boss Jon Tye (Seahawks, Captain Sunshine, Ocean Moon) on the famous Ban Ban Ton Ton:

https://banbantonton.com/2020/12/15/interview-jon-tye-ocean-moon/

„Did KPM approach you for a solo record? I love the Seahawks one.“

„From the outset there was talk of a series or releases…after Island Visions it seemed natural to progress to Crystal Harmonics and from there to Astral Vibrations – a deeply psychedelic vision featuring members of Stereolab, Peaking Lights and The Horrors. There’s also an album with Jon Brooks called Electric Meadows.“

I had already read it a few times and suddenly my ears pricked up: “Electric Meadows”?

I couldn't find anything on Bandcamp or Discogs. Surprisingly, the album was available on Apple Music and I found a site where you could download the album.

You can't really find anything else about it on the Internet.

Well, here we have another wonderful New Age-esque ambient music from Ocean Moon, which is great to curl up in the hammock to and think about your life. There is always something to reflect on and the weather is very inviting for that right now.

A large part of the Ocean Moon release is created in the probably wonderful surroundings of Cornwall.

A reason to take a closer look at the area.

Now I just have to find out what the aforementioned “Astral Vibrations“ is all about.

Ideas?