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pure sound - yukon
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Pure Sound: Yukon is the first in a series of albums exploring music, words, noise and atmosphere from A Witness bass player Vince Hunt and various musical collaborators including Inca Babies' front man Harry Stafford.
From the opening of Yukon the listener is taken through a musical journey taking in Texan prisoners, classic Goldrush poetry and Hunt's own lyrics, against an unsettling sonic background. There are Hunt's colossal basslines, Stafford 's backwards decks, de-tuned guitars, crackly vinyl, drop forges and washing machines.
"Happy Birthday From Texas" features samples of worksongs from Texan prisoners, recorded by legendary Library of Congress sound recordist John Lomax and his son Alan in December 1933 during their travels to America's south which would unearth Leadbelly and later Muddy Waters. James 'Ironhead' Baker, Ernest Williams and Henry Truvillion are the sampled singers, recorded inside Sugarland prison, Texas. There's also a sample in the backing track from turntablist Philip Jeck's album 7 with vocals from Harry Stafford.
Yukon covers two classic Canadian poems by Robert Service, witness to the Yukon Goldrush: "The Men Who Don't Fit In" - a sample of which is now Pure Sound's entrance music - and "The Legend Of Sam Magee", an eight minute remake of the poem every Canadian child knows, but unlike any version they ever expected. J Frank Willis tells the stories, sampled from the 1962 album The Spell Of The Yukon, first released in 1962 on Ringside Records of Ontario.
Release date: October 2006 (EUPH 002 / EUPHONIUM RECORDS)
