Sound-on-Sound
by Bill Nelson's Red Noise
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 February 1979
- Label: Harvest
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 38:25
- Community rating: 3.78/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Immediately following the dissolution of Be-Bop Deluxe, the prolific guitarist radically reinvented his sound, completely embracing the jittery, synthesizer-heavy aesthetics of the new wave. The album features high-speed, robotic rhythms and incredibly dense layers of electronic textures, heavily colored by paranoid sci-fi lyricism. It is a brilliant, manic bridge between classic art rock and the eccentric complexities of the burgeoning Zolo movement.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, synth, experimental, electronic, witty, synthesizers, guitars, melodic, eccentric
Tracklist
- Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) (1:51)
- For Young Moderns (4:24)
- Stop / Go / Stop (3:10)
- Furniture Music (3:31)
- Radar in My Heart (1:36)
- Stay Young (3:11)
- Out of Touch (3:31)
- A Better Home in the Phantom Zone (4:27)
- Substitute Flesh (3:29)
- The Atom Age (3:01)
- Art / Empire / Industry (2:45)
- Revolt into Style (3:24)
Credits
- Red Noise - primary artist
- Nick Webb - lacquer cut by
- Ian Nelson - alto saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, synthesizer [string machine], saxophone [synthaphone], electric piano [wurlitzer], synthesizer [string machine], alto saxophone, clarinet, tenor saxophone, electric piano [wurlitzer], synthesizer [string machine], alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, electric piano [wurlitzer], synthesizer [string machine]
- Rick Ford - bass
- Andy Clark - grand piano [yamaha grand], synthesizer [mini moog], synthesizer [yamaha cs80], grand piano, organ [vox continental], grand piano [yamaha grand], synthesizer [yamaha cs80], grand piano [yamaha grand], synthesizer [mini moog], synthesizer [yamaha cs80], grand piano [yamaha grand]
- Dave Mattacks - drums, drum machine [sts 3 synthesizer drums], drums, drum machine [sts 3 synthesizer drums], percussion