I hear a new world

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I hear a new world
I hear a new world cover
Studio album by Joe Meek and The Blue Men
Released May 1960
Recorded Lansdowne Studios
1959
Genre Rock
Length  ?
Label Triumph Records TRX-ST9000 (1960)
RPM Records (1991)
Producer(s) Joe Meek
Professional reviews
Joe Meek and The Blue Men chronology
n.a. I hear a new world
(1960)		 n.a.


I hear a new world - an outer space music fantasy is a concept album devised and composed by Joe Meek in 1959. Partly released in 1960, Released completely in 1991 by RPM Records and later by Barry Cleveland, in a more authentic manner, with his book "Creative Music Production: Joe Meek's Bold Techniques".

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[edit] Production Details

The Musicians, "The Blue Men", were originally The West Five, a skiffle group from Ealing, London. They also recorded as "Rodd, Ken and the Cavaliers" for Joe Meek. The tracks were recorded at Meek's Holland Park flat, and also in Lansdowne Studios.

The album was Meek's pet project. He was fascinated by the then-new space programme, and believed that life existed elsewhere in the solar system. This album was his attempt "to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space," he explained. "At first I was going to record with music that was completely outofthis world bu realised that it would have very little entertainment value so I kept the construction of the music down to earth." This he (and Rod Kenn, who, unlike Meek, could play an instrument) achieved by blending The Blue Men's skiffle/rock and roll style with a range of sound effects, created by such kitchen-sink methods as blowing bubbles in water with a straw, draing water out of the sink, shorting an electrical circuit, and even banging partly-filled milk bottles with spoons; yet one must listen carefully to detect these prosaic origins in the finished product.

The first, eponymous track on the album is also the only one to feature conventional vocals; most of the others are instrumentals, but some feature speeded-up vocals in the style of The Chipmunks or Pinky and Perky.

Meek also wrote sleeve notes for each track, to set the scene for each piece. For instance, the notes for "Magnetic Field" say: this is a stretch of the Moon where there is a strange lack of gravity forcing everything to float three feet above the crust, which with a different magnetic field from the surface sets any article in some sections in vigorous motion, and at times everything is in rhythm.

[edit] Release history

The L.P. was scheduled to be released by Joe Meek's Triumph Records label in May 1960, but only an 4-track 7-inch-E.P. ("Part 1") was really released. Only a few demo/preview-copies of the L.P. are known to exist. The rereleases are dubbed from these discs.

A second E.P. was planned, but never appeared; only the sleeve was printed. This,(and the cancellation of the album itself) was due to financial problems at the label. This resulted in Meek leaving the label. The band, too, drifted away and returned to the live circuit, probably glad to be away from the temperamental producer and his strange, visionary dream.

[edit] Personnel

Musicians

  • The Blue Men: Rod Freeman: group leader, guitar, vocals; Ken Harvey: tenor sax, vocals; Roger Fiola: Hawaiian Guitar; Chris White: guitar; Doug Collins: bass; Dave Golding: drums

Producer: Joe Meek

[edit] Track listing

(Running order of original 1960-scheduled L.P.)

Side 1

  1. "I Hear a New World" 2:44
  2. "Globb Waterfall" 3:15
  3. "Entry Of The Globbots" 3:09
  4. "Valley Of The Saroos" 2:50
  5. "Magnetic Field" 3:10
  6. "Orbit Around The Moon" 2:49

Side 2

  1. "The Bublight" 2:43
  2. "March of the Dribcots" 2:07
  3. "Love Dance Of The Saroos" 2:33
  4. "The Dribcots' Space Boat" 2:16
  5. "Disc Dance of the Globbots" 2:15
  6. "Valley of No Return" 3:07

(Track lengths from the CD reissue)

[edit] Releases

  • The Blue Men, directed by Rod Freeman: I Hear A New World - Part 1 (e.p., Triumph Records RGX-ST5000, March 1960)

Entry of the Globbots, Valley of the Saroos, Orbit around the Moon, Magnetic Field

  • The Blue Men, directed by Rod Freeman: I Hear A New World - Part 2 (e.p., Triumph Records RGX-ST5001, not released)

Globb Waterfall, The Dribcots' Space Boat, Love Dance Of The Saroos, The Bublight

  • (LP, Triumph Records TRX-ST9000, scheduled for may 1960)
  • CD (RPM records RPM502) Joe Meek - "I Hear a New World" (the front cover credits Meek, and the back credits Rod Freeman and the Blue Men; there are also audio and film clips of interviews with Meek.

[edit] Dream of the West

Four Tracks from I Hear a New World were reissued on the album Dream of the West (credited to The Outlaws), and with new titles: "Orbit Around the Moon" became "Husky Team"; "Entry of the Globbots" became "Tune for Short Cowboys"; "The Bublight" became "The Outlaws"; and "Valley of the Saroos" became "Spring is Near".

[edit] Resources

[edit] External links

[edit] Other reading

  • RW Dopson & AD Blackburn, sleeve notes for "I Hear a New World", 2001 reissue.
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