Electreum by Melodic Energy Commission

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

https://issuu.com/bcmusicianmagazine/docs/usfg_9th_annual_2017/62

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.

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