The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair (2001)

Tracklist
01.- Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney &.Wings)
02.- Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
03.- God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
04.- Space Oddity (David Bowie)
05.- The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
06.- Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings)
07.- I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
08.- In My Room (The Beach Boys)
09.- Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
10.- I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
11.- Mandy (Barry Manilow)
12.- Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys)
13.- Desperado (The Eagles)
14.- You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys)
15.- Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
16.- To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears)
17.- Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
18.- You're Sixteen (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr)
19.- Little Deuce Coupe (The Beach Boys)
20.- Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
21.- Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact.Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters)

En una escena de “Mi vida sin mi” de Isabel Coixet sonaba mi canción favorita de los Beach Boys (y una de mis canciones favoritas de todos los tiempos), “Good Only Knows”, en las voces de un coro de niños. Pensaba que era una versión nueva y busqué quienes eran esos angelicales cantantes. Resulta que, por edad, podrían ser mis padres. The Langley Schools Music Project es un coro de 60 voces de los niños de una escuela rural del oeste de Canadá, inexperimentados pero captivados por la magia de la melodia, cantando temas de The Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers y otros. Los estudiantes se acompañan de carillones repicando percusión al estilo de Orff y de los arreglos rock elementales dispuestos por su profesor itinerante de música, Hans Fenger. Estas grabaciones de 1976-77, capturadas en una cinta 2 pistas en un gimnasio de la escuela, no fueron efectuadas para ganar dinero o fama ni para vender álbumes o para obtener un contrato. Estos chicos tocaban la música porque la amaban. Inocentes, dañadas y agridulces, guiadas por el insospechado genio de Fenger, estas grabaciones merecian ser oídas y preservadas. Las grabaciones fueron editadas originalmente en dos LPs de 12 pulgadas, premsados exclusivamente para los estudiantes, sus compañeros, profesores y padres. Nunca se intentó que fueran oidas fuera de la región provincial de Langley. Pero años después llamaronn la atención de Irwin Chusid, un productor musical que quiso hacer estas grabaciones comercialmente disponibles. Él forjó un acuerdo con los administradores de la escuela de Langley y, con la bendicion de Hans Fenger y varios solistas ex-estudiantes que fueron localizados, estas grabaciones inpagables se han hecho publicas para el resto del mundo.

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2001 Innocence & Despair

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http://www.gammonrecords.com/artists/langley/bio.html

During an scene from Isabel Coixet’s "My life without me" my favorite Beach Boys’ song (and one of my all time favorite song), "Good Only Knows", sounded in the voices of a choir of children. I thought it was a new version and searched who were those angelical singers. I realised that, by their age, they could be my parents. The Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic, singing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others. The students accompany themselves with the shimmering gamelan chimes of Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music teacher, Hans Fenger. These 1976-77 recordings, captured on a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium, weren't staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract. These kids played music because they loved it. Innocent, flawed and bittersweet, guided by Fenger's unsuspecting genius, these recordings deserve to be heard and preserved. The recordings were originally contained on two 12" LPs, pressed exclusively for the students, their classmates, teachers, and parents. They were never intended for exposure outside the provincial Langley region. But after they came to the attention of Irwin Chusid, a record producer who vowed to make these recordings commercially available. He forged a licensing/trustee agreement with the Langley School administrators, and with the blessings of Hans Fenger and several former student soloists who were located, these priceless recordings have now been introduced to the rest of the planet.