Paul Haslinger - Score
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Track Listing
- Accidental Measures in Cool 4:57
- The Infinite Jest 3:51
- When Worlds Collide 4:56
- The Real Question (Is...) 3:48
- Fantastic Voyage 7:30
- Magheda 5:27
- Inbetween Nowhere 3:07
- Life, Lounge and Lesser Evils 5:30
- This Station 3:59
- Hardboiled Wonderland 4:25
- War in the Heart of Eden 6:00
- New India 3:51
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- From the LA media meltdown of the 90's comes Score, a futuristic album that utterly obliterates genre boundaries. Serpentine jazz/rock synths and atmospherics groove on enigmatic LA nights. Score reaches a new plateau in Haslinger's creative evolution. As he did with World Without Rules (1996) and his solo debut Future Primitive (1994), Paul Haslinger reaches well into the next century to find a world where global musics peaceably conjoin on the same palette. Accessible to many audiences without sacrificing artistic integrity, this music of the future not only blurs, but utterly obliterates the boundaries that typically prevent such thorough mixing of styles.
- As stylistically varied as it is thematically focused, Score is both devilishly intense and hauntingly sublime. Like a melding of Barbara Gogan and King Crimson in their more reflective moments, "When Worlds Collide" featuring JULIANNA RAYE's sultry vocals verges on a track to make love to. "Infinite Jest" is a polyrhythmic, worm-hole journey from a Japanese street performance to a ballroom dance contest in the 21st century to a virgin sacrifice in Times Square.
"Bumi Fian" serves as medium for the spirit of Miles Davis on the serpentine jazz/rock of "Accidental Measures in Cool." Fian's trumpet, plus Haslinger's strings, languid percussion synths and atmospherics set the stage for "Fantastic Voyage," an enigmatic journey through a mysterious realm of dreams and nocturnal visions. In a similar vein but with even greater subtlety, Inbetween Nowhere softly and eerily evokes the silence of a haunted temple where desperate ghosts forever seek solitude in the eternal void.
Using singers from the Kikuyu tribe of Eastern Africa as a springboard, "Magheda" suggests dusk over Kenya at a time of celebration, and respect for the gifts of life and nature. In the guise of an ethno-rock number, "The Real Question (Is...)" essentially defines the cultural make-up of the entire album with fierce African and East Indian vocals, guitar, keyboards, tablas and helicopters. "New India" is the most East Indian in flavor with traditional instruments and vocals, strings and CHARLIE CAMPAGNA on guitar.
Demonstrating mature, Brazilian flair, "Life, Lounge and Lesser Evils" is contemplative, jazzy and sexy, while "This Station" is a funky chunk of brash hip hop rife with bass-heavy dubs and stark, urban samples. The rap inflections in the otherwise instrumental "Hardboiled Wonderland" are right at home in this Jon Hassell/Bill Laswell/George Duke soup of danceable '70s fusion.
No stranger to film music (Haslinger was with Tangerine Dream when the group scored such films as Near Dark, Miracle Mile, and Shy People and now works with Graeme Revell on Front Line features,) Score is the most cinematic of Haslinger's solo releases. "War in the Heart of Eden" is an especially moving, widescreen indictment of the effects of mortal conflict within the walls of paradise.
His studio prowess is estimable and as founder of The Assembly Room, a virtual laboratory and library for the research, development and cataloging of sounds and samples, Haslinger shapes this musical stew as he sees fit, never submitting to the mundane dictates of the expected. With classical music training at the Academy in Vienna, a masters degree in musicology, four years with Tangerine Dream, two collaborations with LIGHTWAVE (available on Fathom), and numerous multi-media projects to his credit, Haslinger is well-equipped to bring his ideas to fruition.
Fans of World Without Rules will likely find Score even more to their liking, and those discovering Paul Haslinger for the first time will be coming aboard just as he reaches a new plateau in his creative evolution. Paul Haslinger is one of the more unique artists working today, and Score more than lives up to the expectations of those who have waited two years for its release.
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Paul Haslinger - World Without Rules
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Track Listing
- World Without Rules 7:34
- Urban Source Code 6:02
- Dismissal of the Hemisphere 5:33
- Monkey Brain Sushi 2:51
- Be-bop in Baghdad 7:01
- Asian Blue 5:34
- Desert Diva 6:28
- Rainmaker’s Dream 5:04
- Le Sens Du Sens 4:44
- Global Ghetto 4:28
- The Closing of the Circle 4:20
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- World Without Rules takes takes on the new era of trans-global, polyrhythmic, multi-sampled pop music. Paul Haslinger burns the style barriers with an eclectic masterpiece fused from elements of rock, techno, electronic, experimental and ethno-ambient music. RGB recording artist Paul Haslinger began his music studies in 1982 at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. By 1985, he was playing live gigs as support act for Tina Turner and doing session work with a number of Austrian groups. Haslinger joined Tangerine Dream for their 1986 studio album Underwater Sunlight and subsequent world tour. He continued with the group on Tyger (1987) and the Grammy-nominated Canyon Dreams (1988), along with a number of soundtrack recordings, including Shy People and Miracle Mile. Following several additional soundtracks and studio albums, Haslinger left T-Dream in 1990, soon after receiving his Masters degree in Musicology at the University of Vienna.
In 1991, Haslinger relocated to Los Angeles. He began collaborations with fellow ex-TD member Peter Baumann and with the French electronic ensemble LIGHTWAVE. The group's debut album on Fathom Records, Tycho Brahe, came out in 1993, the same year Haslinger created the Assembly Room studios.
Haslingers first solo album Future Primitive was released to critical acclaim in 1994 on Wildcat/MCA. Active in the burgeoning Los Angeles interactive multimedia scene, he was named music director for SIGGRAPH 95. He also produced and collaborated with Lightwave on Mundus Subterraneus (Fathom, 1995).
World Without Rules (RGB 504) joins Haslinger with a stellar lineup of guest musicians, including MARK ISHAM and NONA HENDRYX.
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