Looks like it is just turning into a JMJ thread so I'll go ahead and post one of my silly JMJ stories
Have you ever heard his
Zoolook album? It's a great one with Laurie Anderson supplying some strange and wonderful vocals (along with many processed ethnic vocal snippets from over 25 languages including groups of pygmies) over electronic lanscapes. Parts are really good. He's not the icon that Brian Eno is in my world and most of his work I find a bit uninteresting but
Zoolook has always been a favorite since it came out in 1984. Another favorite of mine Adrian Belew also plays guitar on some of it. It's an early digital recording but is done very well and has some very interesting spatial effects. I remember one time a few years ago listening by myself in the dark to the LP on my turntable (which does seem to sound much better than the CD, even though likely from the same digital master) and becoming deeply involved in the music and the image that seemed to fill the whole room and wrap around me. The last track is called "Ethnicolor II", even though themantically it seems to have no relation to the amazing, epic opening track, "Ethnicolor". I have a friend who says it reminds him of an open air bazaar in a faroff land, abuzz with the sound of people moving about and voices everywhere. To me, it is more like a railway station with that same buzz of people and the sound of distant trains coming through in odd time signatures. But whatever images it conjures, when you are alone in the dark it can be quite disconcerting and even a bit scary. Enough so that I felt surrounded by souls on that occasion and had to reach for the light switch and shut down the images cause I was getting a little freaked. Fun stuff though
eter, aka 
usty 
halk
