Not Socks With Sandals!

A little bit of background and review of Tangerine Dream's classic Zeit album from 1972. Plus, we play a couple of tracks from the album. 

It’s truly an astonishing piece of work. taken on its own merit, the soundtrack to Eraserhead evokes a world void of happiness, a world of sexual and social discomfort which transforms the listener through a darkly intense layer of industrial laden polluting and suffocatingly oppressive fog that was unlike anything released in its time and it is still largely genre defying.

Music has always been about experimentation and interpretation. And improvisation. Music expresses emotion, passion, excitement, terror.

It’s part of what we are as human beings, as creators of music. We share the ability to create or absorb and understand what constitutes the notion of a “piece of music”.

And we don’t need to have any special skills for this; we interpret music in our own diverse way.

In much the same way as art, music can be interpreted by different people in many different ways. There is no right or wrong when it comes to appreciating music.

There are no guidelines or rules when it comes to appreciating a tune. However, music, by its very nature, requires some kind of structure in order for it to be called music.

Some would argue that there are genres or forms of (let’s just loosely describe it as) music that defy the recognised structure that we, and just as an example because it is the area I am most familiar with, Western music, are familiar with. The regular rhythm of beats, timing signatures, expectations of an almost mathematical predictability of sound, are what makes us instantly recognise that something is music. And we can trace these recognisable beats and rhythms all the way to ancient African tribes people. Of course, there are many other countries in the world that have their own ethnic forms of music, often with quite complex rhythm patterns.

[ambient music in background] [5 mins]

What I would like to present to you in this series of podcasts is a taste of a musical style known as Dark Ambient.

Gerry Southern works as the caretaker in the local cemetery. One day, he discovers a grave site has a fresh tunnel bored beside it, and when he peers in, a demon jumps on his shoulder and tries to possess him. The demon has been told by Satan, to return to the living to find another worthy and evil human being to torture after his previous soul went to Heaven due to a wrongful conviction and hanging.  However, Satan advises that if he chooses the wrong soul, that is, one whom he cannot corrupt, then he will be tortured for all eternity. Unfortunately, the first candidate the demon chooses is a man who is pure of heart and does not believe in demons, and therefore the demon tries very hard to convince him firstly that he exists and that he must succumb to the demon or else, and secondly, that he is basically a worthy contender for hell. The demon has until daybreak the next day to steal his soul.

Welcome to a new episode of our new podcast.  For this episode we start by telling you all about my most intriguing experience with the spirit world.  In Anglewood (Yean House) in Burradoo NSW haunted as hell? Well, we tend to think it might be, and in this episode we explain why. We hope you enjoy this intriguing episode, and please get in touch with us so we can share your stories as well. Thank you for listening, and please subscribe as we hope to produce regular episodes.

**Language warning**

In which Ray finally confronts Eugene Paris for the final blood curdling showdown

Pete travels to the only surviving ruins at Northbridge, the courthouse to investigate first hand reports of weird noises coming from the derelict building. This episode is a real chiller! Don't listen to it alone! 

**gore and language warning!**

In which Ray discovers Mr Stavano is still alive, and when he visits him at hospital, Stavano offers his old job back. Only problem is Paris, Mick and Renee are still there. Stavano makes Ray foreman, and now Ray has the job of getting rid of the three troublemakers. Blood will be spilled.

In which Ray receives a visit by the local constabulary, runs into Jurgen in gaol, and finds a friend in Shaun Saunders, who convinces him to kill a cow in a paddock to revitalise his creative juices. 

**Language warning**

In which Ray returns to working in the travelling show. He wins the prestigious Sci-Fi and Fantasy award; discovers Max Mann has changed Ray's story without his permission and when he returns home after the ceremony, discovers Mick and Renee have been terrorising his mother and he vows to get even with them.