Art of Noise (and Art & ACT) – “Daft as a Brush!” @ Element 46 for Record Store Day 2019
Limited edition 4 x 12" box set and a vinyl companion piece to the renown 1986 CD compilation, Daft. Hear a fresh take on three game-changing records – Beat Box, Close (to the Edit) and Moments in Love – while a fourth disc finally unleashes Trevor Horn and Paul Morley’s mythical post-AoN project, Art and ACT. 26 tracks across four discs, including hidden tracks, brand new artwork and liner notes. 14 tracks previously unreleased, and seven tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. The entire set is remastered from the original master tapes.
Beat Box: Diversion One, Diversion Two, Diversion Three, Diversion Four, Diversion Five, Diversion Six [“how do you do?” – “how do you dance?”]. Closer (to the Edit): Close (to the Edge) 12" Mix, A Time to Hear (Who's Listening?), Close (to the Edge) 7" Mix, A Time to Hear (We’re Listening!) [“listen out” – “listen in”]. (Share) Moments in Love: Moments in Love (Original, Part One), Memento (Hymnal, Part One), The Spring Flowers, Moments in Love (Original, Part Two), Memento (Hymnal, Part Two), The Autumn Leaves [“To the death… for life” – “For life… to the death”]. AND! Art & ACT: Life's a Barrel of Laughs: Out of This World, TCH/M Vox, Yes or No [“Yes!” – “No?”]
The Periodic Elements of Zang Tuum Tumb – “daft as a brush!” – is Number 46 in Zang Tuum Tumb’s Element Series (we stitched a sequin to a spanner) and features Number 108 in the never-ending Incidental Series, Number 01 in the Perfect Series, Number 05 in the cautiously optimistic Fatal Series, and Number 02 in a nostalgic, tearful series. This is Volume Seven of Zang Tuum Tumb's The Art of the 12". Concept and compilation: Ian Peel; art and design: Philip Marshall.
The Art of Noise suddenly realized that waking in the middle of a dream, even the worst, one feels disappointed, even cheated of the best in life. But pleasant, fufilled dreams are actually as rare, to use Schubert’s words, as happy music. Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. This is precisely why the loveliest dreams are as if blighted. Such an impression is captured superlatively in the description of the nature theatre of Oklahoma in Kafka’s America.
Mark Nicholson
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