Limited original Picture Music Cassette, 1987.
Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-’80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore Picture Music. To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would be produced to give to potential clients, or maybe even sell on the market. Picture Music registered as a business in the summer of 1986.
If there is a red thread running through the Picture Music album, it is its "late-night" ambience. The wrath of the sub-tropical summer heat of Brisbane is not kind on electronic equipment, which would crash regularly by day. So all recording was done in the relative cool of the late evening, in a room only dimly lit by lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party all through the night, departing around sunrise. They would sleep through the heat of the day, only to return in the evening for more of the same.
The 1987 cassette release remains an evocative representation of the music and late-night, dimly-lit ambience enabled, experienced and nurtured by a bunch of laid-back, amiable and like-minded friends Rainer Guth, Jon Anderson, Gary McFeat & Rod Owen in a tiny corner of Brisbane in the mid-'80's. Although the tape was subsequently distributed out to a number of film and video producers, it seemed otherwise generally dismissed. Left Ear Records have dug up a few copies, available for purchase.
Del Silencio –
Respuesta Alternativa - Del Silencio LP
Respuesta Alternativa
$38 AUD
Colleen St. Ledger’s “Little Light” (Limited Edition A2 Print)
Picture Music
$125 AUD
Footprints –
Poetical Licence – Footprints
Poetical Licence
$25 AUD
Dance Of The Spheres –
Rainbow Generator - Dance Of The Spheres Vinyl LP
Rainbow Generator
$40 AUD
Life Love Dance –
Litia-Loe - Life Love Dance LP
LITIA-LOE
$38 AUD
Antipodean Anomalies 2 – Antipodean Anomalies 2 Vinyl 2xLP
$50 AUD
Double Action –
Twin Cosmos - Double Action Vinyl LP
Twin Cosmos
$40 AUD
Mémoire –
Influenza Prods. - Mémoire LP
Influenza Prods.
$38 AUD
Picture Music –
Picture Music
Picture Music
$50 AUD
Late Night Flyer –
Leong Lau With East-West Unity Band – Late Night Flyer
Leong Lau
$22 AUD
Over You –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Tester Housing
$25 AUD
Hakodate Lady –
7"
Minoru Fushimi
Sold Out
Left Ear T-Shirt - Black
$30 AUD
Each Dawn Every Dawn –
Litia Loe - Each Dawn Every Dawn 12"
LITIA-LOE
$25.50 AUD
Cara A Cara –
Vinyl LP
Mariana Ingold
Sold Out
Wordless Songs –
12" Vinyl
Justine
$22 AUD
Egyptology 0.5 –
12"
Space Farm
$22 AUD
Vuyani –
12"
Lungile Masitha
Sold Out
Impossible Dreams –
Impossible Dreams
Rajan James
$22 AUD
Phase III –
Phase III
I.A.O
$42 AUD
Percussions Pour La Danse –
LP
Jean-Pierre Boistel / Tony Kenneybrew
$38 AUD
Left Ear T-Shirt - White
$30 AUD
I'm An Arabian Knight (Egyptian Lover Remixes) –
12"
Shahara Ja
$22 AUD
Abuja –
12"
Jay U Xperience
$25 AUD
Just U And Me –
LP
Kingsley Bucknor
$32 AUD
Subterranean (1989-1995) –
LP
Workdub
$32 AUD
In Praise Of Mitochondria –
In Praise of Mitochondria
Minoru 'Hoodoo' Fushimi
$42 AUD
Peter Westheimer - Cool Change –
LP
Peter Westheimer
$38 AUD
Spaced Out –
Limited Edition CD
'Thesda
$16 AUD
That Rongeng Sound –
LP
Leong Lau
$38 AUD
Rapso Take Over –
Vinyl LP 2021
Brother Resistance
$38 AUD
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