Ether (Fischer-Z album)

Ether
Studio album by Fischer-Z
Released 2002
Genre Big beat, pop, rock
Length 59:00
Label PIAS
Producer John Watts
Fischer-Z chronology

Stream
(1995)		 Ether
(2002)
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Ether was an experimental music project by John Watts, released under the name Fischer-Z. After releasing two successful solo albums and one album of remixes, since the last Fischer-Z album, Stream, John Watts had started to take an interest in creating big beat music. After creating a whole big beat style album in 1999 entitled Bigbeatpoetry, Watts carried on in a similar style for Ether. He recorded a number of songs, featuring only his guitar and voice, and then put them over cut-up beats as a rhythm track. Watts had also added a filmic touch to the project, he travelled throughout Europe and post-9/11 New York City to find musicians at random and record them using his laptop, in their homes and on the street. Sarah Vermeersch filmed & edited the process into a road movie. "Ether" was further released as a John Watts solo album (see: Ether Music & Film), including the road movie DVD and a CD of tracks from the "Ether" album that appeared in the movie.

Track listing

  1. Ether
  2. Jukebox
  3. Supernatural
  4. Famous
  5. Glorious
  6. Beep
  7. Eclipse
  8. Amnesty
  9. Promenaders
  10. Fury
  11. Home
  12. Plummeting
  13. Anything
  14. Over
  15. Valley
  16. Only

Personnel (as credited on CD)