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cults percussion ensemble - cults percussion ensemble - trunk records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. Autun Carillon
2. Baia
3. My Love She's But A Lassie Yet
4. Circles
5. Percussion Suite (3rd Movement)
6. The Little Dancer
7. Two Jubilee Pieces
8. Erlangen Polka
9. Dream Angus
10. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
11. Irish Washerwoman
12. Polymers

Privately pressed in Scotland in 1979, this illusive and quite wonderful percussion album is like no other. Played by a group of 11 girls with an average age of 14, the group included Evelyn Glennie, who was destined to become one of the world's greatest percussionists and this was her first-ever record !

The Cults Percussion Ensemble was a group formed by percussion teaching legend Ron Forbes in the mid-1970s.
Reminiscent of Carl Orff and peculiar library music, we now have a formal release of something quite lovely that was only previously available very briefly in 1979 at concerts when the young girls performed. The music here is really quite unique, with a celestial, swirling, hypnotic quality. The blend of glockenspiels, xylophones, vibraphones, marimba and timpani drums is quite intoxicating and can recall the shimmering warmth of the desert sun one minute or freezing glacial icecaps the next.

Thanks to Ron Forbes and Trunk Records, more people can now enjoy the simple hypnotic musical charms of the Cults Percussion Ensemble.