FOLKWAYS RECORDS FTS 33440 STEREO

OUTERSFACE I muSic

VACLAV NELHYBEL Ingenious use of echo, artificial reverberation and electronic alterations gives the musit; in this category a weird, spooky futuristic, "out of this world" quality, vvell-suited to super-natural happenings of any kind. Piano, drums and electronic instruments are used to achieve the strange atmosphere and spatial sounds.

SIDE 1

1. STRANGE ERUPTIONS 0:33 Unearthly explosions; slow, suspenseful, mystifying sounds.

2. NEBULAE 0:57 Weird drum sound; cosmic mirage in the making, gradually increasing in sound and then ebbing away. Tempo conveys feeling of mysterious wait.

3. COSMIC CYCLE 1:18 Slow mutations; ghostly sounds of different drums and low piano chords with an eerie inner voice.

4. SPACE METEORS 0:35 Again and again, strange objects seem to fall through space.

5. STAR CLUSTERS 0:46 Luminous celestial effervescence featuring high tone-clusters and arpeggios on piano.

6. SONG OF THE SPHERES 0:33 Weird melodic strains with heavy rhythm chords underneath; strangely dramatic.

7. COSMIC TWILIGHT 0:30 Nebulous haze in the dawn of infinity.

8. MARS CRATERS 0:32 Queer shapes, mystifying shadows and elusive depths in slight agitation.

9. COSMIC FRIGHT 0:43 Planetary excitement makes for strange dramatic vibrations in space.

10. SPACE SHIP Eerie distant suspenseful motion with awesome punctuations.

11. PULSE OF THE UNIVERSE Strange unison passage with rhythmic pulsebeats setting in second half.

SIDE 2

1. SUN LAVA Cosmic bubbling in increasing incandescence.

2. IONOSPHERE Light radiation; bombardment by cosmic rays.

3. DARK COSMIC CLOUDS Space agitato.

4. COSMIC DAWN Slow cosmic pastoral.

5. INTERPLANETARY JOURNEY (THREE SECTIONS) (a) Slow Misterioso (0:40) (b) Mysterious agitato (0:50) (c) Strange space spasms (0:40)

6. VOICES FROM OUTER SPACE Weird calls from the "beyond."

7. VIBRATIONS IN OUTER SPACE Sound-phantoms in space.

8. COSMIC BREATH Weird glissandos

9. SPACE SPIRALS Cosmic suspense.

10. ATMOSPHERIC REACTIONS (THREE SECTIONS) (a) Slow, rising cosmic excitement (0: 18J (b) Woodwinds in lyrical interlude (0:22) (c) Electronic finish with woodwinds (0:20)

Cover design Ronald ayne All material copyright @ 1959 by Alpha Music Inc. Produced by Folkways Records 701 Seventh Ave., N.Y.C. 10036 ubrary of Congress #LC 74-750244

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