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Electreum introduction

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Sonic enhancement for times when your mind wants to drift freely outside of the machine driven world. A concept album designed to be best listened to in entirety.
    NB May be habit forming.

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Minstrel Electron 00:54
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Autumn in a Cedar Forest 02:13
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Hole in Timeless 04:32 video
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Magnifo's Experience 05:16
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Midway Ride 02:41
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Waterfell 04:22
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Above the Village Well 03:02
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Once upona 04:05
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Space Surf 03:33 video
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Electreum gives us a soundscape for times when there is no time. Some call it a sonic massage for coaxing out the critters that followed you home. A place where you can let your thoughts drift . . . into a futuristic space.

Forty years have passed since the release of Stranger In Mystery. Now Electreum shows the Melodic Energy Commission hasn’t left those uncharted territories – this album is still un-classifiably odd, blending vaguely ominous SciFi soundscapes – largely courtesy of George McDonald’s homemade Theremin – with world music's Randy Raine Reusch and exploring synth characterizations, Mark Franklin, an instigator of their first releases. Overall, the effect is calmer, more at ease with itself than those early records. If Stranger in Mystery and Migration of the Snails showed the band striking off for uncharted territories, Electreum is the sound of what it is like to have lived there, beyond the grids, for 40 or so years. the sum of the parts is somehow unclassifiable; perhaps ominous, to a psychedelic virgin, but familiar and warm to voyagers on the spiral’s outer edge. . . . .Alan MacInnis

issuu.com/bcmusicianmagazine/docs/usfg_9th_annual_2017/62

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released September 16, 2020

Produced by Don Xaliman
Mixed by Don Xaliman and Randy Raine-Reusch
Energy Discs Records, Vancouver, Canada
featuring
Don Xaliman - processed baritone guitar, gongs, other things
George McDonald - guitar, theremin, extreme electronics
Randy Raine Reusch - flutes, dulcimer, various acoustics with electro stimulus.
Mark Franklin - electronics, bass guitar
Andrew Kim - bowed tennis racket
Camillia Frey - tuned glasses

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Melodic Energy Commission Vancouver, British Columbia

Melodic Energy Commission travels the galaxy to bring your ears the treasures they crave. Blending electronically and acoustically generated sounds into structures that defy normality. This is music specially designed for expanding creative thought and accompanying timeless evenings.
Every few years, since 1980, they return to Earth and release another album .Unique sonic statements throughout. ... more

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