Langley Schools Music Project cd

**creeper2** · August 27th, 2003, 01:16 PM

does anyone out there have this? it is a different cd. hard to describe. though listening to it at 3 in the morning makes you feel like you are in a david lynch movie.
here is some background:
The Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic, singing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others. The students accompany themselves with the shimmering gamelan chimes of Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music teacher, Hans.Fenger.

These 1976-77 recordings, captured on a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium, weren't staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract. These kids played music because they loved it. Innocent, flawed and bittersweet, guided by Fenger's unsuspecting genius, these recordings deserve to be heard and preserved. They brim with charm and youthful ?lan, sparked by flashes of lo-fi Spectorian majesty and Pet Sounds subtlety. Call it folk art, outsider, or campfire rock -- the labels don't matter. These are gorgeous, heavenly artifacts. Period.
These recordings were originally contained on two 12" LPs, pressed exclusively for the students, their classmates, teachers, and parents.

"The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in.me." --David.Bowie

Track Listing(& original recording artists):

01) Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney &.Wings)
02) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
03) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
04) Space Oddity (David Bowie)
05) The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
06) Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings)
07) I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
08) In My Room (The Beach Boys)
09) Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
10) I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
11) Mandy (Barry Manilow)
12) Help Me, Rhonda
13) Desperado (The Eagles)
14) You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys)
15) Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
16) To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears)
17) Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
18) You're Sixteen (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr)
19) Little Deuce Coupe (The Beach Boys)
20) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
21) Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact.Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters)

this version Space Oddity is the creepiest/coolest thing i heard in a while. i highly recommend checking it out.
http://BastaMusic.com/spaceodd.mp3

**Her Vampness** · August 27th, 2003, 07:31 PM

i have wanted this for some time...i can never find it- and never have the time to search for the damn thing!

i heard its AMAZING!

**creeper2** · August 27th, 2003, 07:35 PM

it is vamp, it is. is you want a burned copy let me know. if you want the real deal, i think amazon sells it. if amazon doesn't, let me know, i'll try to find it for you.