Pacific Sound
Pacific Sound features the exotic sounds of original instruments designed and created by Colin Offord.
Objects and sounds of our everyday world create musical landscapes: vast blue oceans, whales, birds, animals, wind and rain sound alongside Offord's original instruments made from metal, bamboo pipes, timber blocks, bells, thunder dish, conch shells and windpipes. Includes 'Three Sisters', 'Earthharp', 'West Wind Drift' and 'Heartland'.
Press quotes
“... lyrical, avant garde ... a cultural clash which is different, daring and never uninteresting.”
— Rolling Stone
“the disc contains many lovely passages and is carving out new territory in being one of the few discs documenting the sounds of sculpture in Australia.”
— Ros Bandt, Sounds Australian
“Colin Offord ... is a musician and artist of genius ... he creates music which is so breathtakingly unusual and yet so accessible ...”
— Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald
Artist
Colin Offord
Colin Offord is a musician, composer, visual artist, inventor of sound sculptures, teacher and the artistic director of the Great Bowing Company.
Audio preview
Track Listing
- Three Sisters Colin Offord 5:48
- Venus and the sickle moon 2:56
- Aeolian vocalion 4:30
- Messages down the line 2:50
- Double earth beating 4:16
- Sweet tin 3:32
- West Wind Drift Colin Offord 2:41
- Heartland Colin Offord 4:55
- Last of the Night Colin Offord 2:43
- Big blue 8:09
- 1000 tongues 9:09
- Island to island 6:18
- Part A 5:01
- Part B 2:22
- Part C 3:54
Earthharp: Music From a Hole in the Ground Colin Offord
Pacifica Suite Colin Offord
Riding on the Rim Colin Offord
Performers
- Colin Offord · original sculptures and instruments
- Céline Donegan · raindrum, windpipe · tracks 8, 9, 13–15
- Tony Lewis · bamboo log drum, leg logo, percussive windpipes · tracks 2–6, 10–12
- Mic Conway · didjeridu · tracks 1, 10–12
- Lenny Paul · leg logo · tracks 10–12
- Joseph "Pepe" Danza · shakuhachi, windpipe · tracks 9, 13–15
Where to listen
Pacific Sound is available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
It's available for streaming through
Spotify and
Apple Music.
Pacific Sound is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.
Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3105
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 69 minutes 4 seconds
- Recording Engineer
- Lenny Paul (tracks 1–6, 10–12)
Martin Wright (tracks 7–9, 13–15) - Venue
- Move Records Studio (tracks 7–9, 13–15)
- Thanks to
- Australia Council
- Release date
- 1990
- Copyright
- © 1990 Move Records
- Phonogram
- ℗ 1990 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Classical, Cross-cultural
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574310528