The Guitar and Other Machines
by The Durutti Column
- Type: Album
- Released: December 1987
- Label: Factory
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 40:01
- Community rating: 3.56/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Stanton Miranda, Vini Reilly, John Metcalfe, Pauline Harrison, Stephen Street, Rob Gray, Tim Kellett
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Vini Reilly significantly expands his signature, delay-soaked guitar soundlines by introducing early digital sequencing and extensive synthesizer layers. The resulting album weaves complex, classical-tinged orchestrations with modern electronic rhythms, creating an impeccably lush and distinctly ethereal post-rock hybrid.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, atmospheric, instrumental, dreamy, jangly, guitars, ambient, gentle, melodic
Tracklist
- Arpeggiator (4:03)
- What Is It To Me (Woman) (3:47)
- Red Shoes (3:13)
- Jongleur Grey (2:41)
- When The World (3:13)
- U.S.P. (2:22)
- Bordeaux Sequence (5:50)
- Pol In B (3:08)
- English Landscape Tradition (4:48)
- Miss Haymes (5:14)
- Don't Think You're Funny (1:42)
Credits
- The Durutti Column - primary artist
- Bruce Mitchell - drums [drum kit], xylophone, drum machine [dx machine], written-by
- Vini Reilly - guitar, keyboards, programmed by [machine programs], vocals, written-by, arranged by
- John Dent - lacquer cut by
- Rob Gray - mouth organ
- John Metcalfe - viola, percussion, written-by
- Pauline Harrison - vocals
- Stanton Miranda - vocals