Saturday, January 12, 2008

Calde(a)ra- A Moog Mass,LP,1970,USA




Here's a real strange one!Caldera produced one album, the electronic oddity called A Moog Mass, which combines Switched-On Bach type multi-part Moog arrangements with some other keyboards (mostly organ and harpsichord) and vocals (often treated or vocodered) for a version of a Catholic mass. The album was released in 1970.A kinda of Christian electronic weird psychodelic music!Superb by all means!
One of those vintage obscurities, A Moog Mass features music composed and played by Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil who would later become Tonto's Expanding Head Band. A vocoded speech is laid on top of their electronic score. There is another band with the name "Caldera" which is a Latin Jazz ensemble and has nothing to do with them.




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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2008 at 11:13 AM

    Do you know why one photo is CALDERA and another is CALDARA?

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  2. UnknownJanuary 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM

    oh man... I can't wait to get home and download this one...

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM

    do you know this pianist Jeroen van Veen ?

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM

    I used to have an album by the 'Latin Jazz' Caldera. It was very good. I think the word 'caldera' refers to a volcanic crater.
    Lucy

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 15, 2008 at 12:56 AM

    This is in 33and1/3 or 45? Have you tried that change?...he he
    so, its not only a(e)

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM

    Man this was great thanks for sharing and for your blog in general its one of my favorites.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM

    Thanks a lot!!! And don't miss 'Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time'
    here:
    http://heinouberspace.blogspot.com/

    or:
    http://heinouberspace.blogspot.com/2008/01
    /tontos-expanding-head-band-zero-time.html

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  8. NawelFebruary 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM

    This excellent blog, as always, surprises me. great stuff.

    In spanish, Caldera would mean a rather big cooking pot, or any big metal structure for heating water...
    A bubbling, steaming thing...? It sounds like your brain on acid, huh?

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  9. AnonymousJune 23, 2022 at 4:25 PM

    Latin Jazz?. The artist was living in "Caldera", Limon, Costa Rica. It's a costarrican.

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  10. AnonymousJune 23, 2022 at 4:30 PM

    It's nothing about heating nothing. Caldera is the part of the boats where you put the wood or charcoal for keep moving. Caldera, Limon, in Costa Rica was the main Port in that country. Also is a fantastic tourist place, very friendly... plenty of things to do and nobody bother you because is like "tourist zone". Go and see. It's hot weather all the year around, but between the beach, the bears and everything super cool there, you will never like to back home. Costa Rica is very German friendly, as matter of fact real costarricans are half german. They are more white than argentinas.

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